JMS STARLING HOME DESIGN

John is an extremely talented person. He was very easy to work with. He sat with my girls and asked them what THEY wanted in their rooms. He made each room in our home look beautiful. John worked within our budget and made our home absolutely stunning. He chose paint colors, fabrics, window treatments, carpet, furniture. He hung photos and put together bed frames and other household items. He planted beautiful flowers. John is not only professional, but incredibly personable, reliable and trustworthy. JMS Starling is a very professional home design operation. We were very pleased and would highly recommend to anyone!

I love John and can't live without him. I'm having a hard time adjusting to losing him after his re-location. His work for me ranged from decorating my home for large party events to holiday gatherings. He spends time assessing the rooms he is working on and makes my vision come to fruition. I get so excited when I see my ideas come alive. During other times of the year, I have hired him to go room to room organizing, redecorating and getting rid of unnecessary items. When I moved into the new home that I had built, he was invaluable in choosing designs and furniture for every room and each person's personality shone through. We love him and miss him.

John helped me with all of the detailed decision in finishing our newly built house - from hardware to tile, vanities, fixtures, lighting and paint choices. He was very helpful in narrowing the selections and learning my personal tastes, while helping me to maintain the general look and feel that was consistent with the style of the house. In addition, John gave me pointers of how to incorporate my furnishings from my previous home and blend it with the style and aesthetics of the new house. John was very adept with paint choices and again helped to set an overall palate for my new home. John is a very easy to work with and a very pleasant and enjoyable person to be around.

John was always my 1st phone call after I signed a listing! He was there to do as much staging or just enough to make a house an attractive home. He's tweaked just a living room to playing musical furniture throughout a 4BR Colonial. Many a times clients chose not to be on-site and come home to a big reveal, others would choose to stay, and John was excellent at respectfully explaining why items were either being removed or replaced somewhere else. At the end of a session even the most pessimistic clients would come around and compliment John's work. John is a consummate professional and the passion for his work is contagious. He was an absolute pleasure to work with. His staging my listings always made a difference in how long it was on the market for. The 4BR Colonial he played musical furniture throughout the house in...it sold within 24 hours of being on the market! - Gigi Bazarian, William Pitt Sotheby's

John is by a landslide the best decorator I have ever dealt with. I am not such a creative person, but he was able to capture the feeling of what I like in a cost effective and original way. He helped me with layouts, artwork, paint colors, furniture selection and arrangements, and my favorite, Christmas styling. I'm most impressed with his ability to work with existing materials to make a space feel warm and yet stylish. I also loved the fact that he didnt try to impose his style on me, but rather listened and got to know what I liked and was able to transform our home into a space that reflected our family. Everything I have ever been complimented on in my house was a John selection. Amazing talent!

John is amazing! I work for Sotheby's in Connecticut and John staged all of my listings, including my own home. With John's creativity and talent the homes were "eye catching"! The photographer was able to take beautiful photographs for the internet, which resulted in faster sales at great prices! John understands real estate and is fabulous to work with! A true master in his profession!

I am a Realtor for 30yrs in a NY suburb selling and listing new construction and older homes $2-4 million needing current & practical solutions to kitchen & bath design, mud rooms, room- size closets, libraries, family rooms, whole house layout renovation & renewal. JMS has been a godsend for over 8 yrs advising my builder, buyers, sellers, daughter, friends,and me on current trends, new ideas, lighting, flooring, paints, fabrics,doorknobs, tile,marbles,bath vanities,mirrors, layout, color,fabrics, picture hanging and accessories. JMS can declutter and stage a house to sell faster and at a higher price than the competition. JMS can help my builder avoid costly errors by overseeing window placement,closets,&doorways.John and JMS have worked on more than 20 projects for me and my clients in NewCanaan on Fairty, Harrison, Heritage Hill, Main, Oenoke, Parish, Ponus, RichmondHill, Weed & South streets...John`s ideas are fresh and new and exciting every time. He is On Time & On Budget and I feel very fortunate to be able to recommend such a competent resource to my ever grateful clients.

John has been a life saver. I met him at a Kitchen tour and fell in love with his style and professionalism and knew he would be perfect to assist me with my own home. I worked with other decorators who kept charging me for every little thing. John is so honest and NEVER pumps up an invoice. He used things I already owned and found amazing items at a great value to complete a fantastic look. I have recommended him to clients and to friends, all are happy and all refer him. My husband insisted that we use John for our investment properties to stage the units and the feedback from Realtors was so incredible that we now can charge even more for the rent. Everything he touches turns to gold...honest, talented, hard working and an eye for detail, make John the perfect design specialist to hire.

John was recommended to us by my mother. He used his designing expertise to re-do several rooms in her home and they are beautiful! We recently moved into a new home and wanted to re-do several rooms. We asked John to do the re-design and it is one of the best investments in our home that we've made! John is easy to work with and truly understands how important the sense of "home" is. He got to know us and worked with our preferences, decor we already love, and budget. We looked forward to his visits and had a few laughs along the way. The outcome was a beautiful re-done living that we enjoy daily. We often get compliments on his work. We could not have made it wonderfully stylish and yet so comfortable without him. We recently asked him to come back to do another room in the house. We recommend him to everybody! - Amy Mazzoni