Interior Designer Chat Ambassadors

Meet our Interior Designer Chat Ambassadors for 2012


Patti Johnson, CID , IDS
Is Interior Designer Chat’s  - Chief Chat Officer
Patti Johnson is the owner of Patti Johnson Interiors, located in Ohio, specializes in Residential Interior Design and Remodeling and recently added Commercial spaces to her resume. Patti Johnson Interiors is also experienced in the design and fabrication of custom window treatments and reflects her love of textiles.
Patti has served as President of the Interior Design Society, Central Ohio chapter and has organized design trade shows for charity. She has enjoyed being a design participant in the Columbus Jr. League Holiday Tour of Homes as well as a mentor for Local Interior Design Students offering internship opportunities. She also writes and contributes to various publications.
With clients in Michigan and Ohio, Patti has remained a lifelong student of design and continues in her pursuit of excellence and service by providing design solutions for your home or business. With established contractors, builders and architects, Patti is expert in Transforming Spaces Into Beautiful Places!

Serena Spell is the owner and Designer of Design Wise Interiors. She has been working in Interior Design since 1998. Serena attended college at The University of Texas at El Paso and has proudly been the lead Designer on three homes that have been showcased in The Parade Homes in the Colorado Springs, CO area.

Having had the opportunity to travel all over the world, Serena likes to mix styles, texture, and color when helping her clients express themselves through their décor.
Serena’s design philosophy is echoed in the motto of her company “Find Your Design Style”; she believes in working closely with each of her clients to be sure that she is helping them to find and bring to life their vision for their home. After all, your home should say something about who you are and show off the things that you love, all the while being a practical solution to your lifestyle and your family’s needs.

Andrew Dunning launched APD Interiors in 2004 with one aim: to allow people to have their dream home for an affordable price.  Since then his business has gone from strength to strength, he writes for CityAM, a London based newspaper with a circulation of over 100,000 readers daily.  He has been featured in the Evening Standard and writes a daily blog offering design advice with the occasional celebrity Interiors Q & A’s.

His design knowledge creates the look you’re after and his sourcing expertise uncovers high quality, well designed furniture and accessories at a price that suits his client’s budgets. Andrew Dunning is based in London, England.

Adèle Young, is the owner of VDL Interiors.  Adele believes that good design, especially that of interior spaces and furniture, inspires her every day.   Adele, is happy to help others live, work and exist in well designed, beautiful places.
Having been raised in an artistic household in Cape Town, South Africa, by an architect dad and a ballerina mom, you can say Adele has creativity and design in her blood.  From the family home that her dad designed to the “playgrounds” that his architectural firm, and the backstage world of theaters, provided, these early surroundings made an indelible impression on her creative mind.  Adele developed a keen awareness of design early in life that has continued to be part of who she is.  After earning her degree in Psychology, and living in London for two years, Adele now lives in Chicago and has  immersed herself in a design career that allows her to live and breathe her passion.  With a second degree in residential planning and years of tutelage alongside well-established interior designers, Adele now uses that formal training and practical experience to sow the seeds of her own business.  As a single mother of two children, Adele figures that if she has  to work to survive she is doing something that she absolutely loves.
Adele’s relatively new business, VDL Interiors, has grown tremendously over the past year, and includes design services for both residential and commercial spaces.