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Martha Daley attacks each home interior design opportunity as if her client’s home is her own.
Daley, owner of M Home Inc., opened her business Nov. 2 in downtown Hinsdale.
“I set up the shop like a home center so when people walk in they can see entire rooms,” said Daley, who grew up in New Hampshire and worked for 15 years as an interior designer and a recruiter with Walter E. Smythe, a custom home furnishings company.
From finding the right accessory to enhance a living room to redesigning an entire home, Daley said operating a business that handles a variety of home decorating tasks is the opportunity of a lifetime.
The store, a 2,500-square-foot showroom at 48 S. Washington St., is the contact point for clients. But Daley does her best work where her expertise will be manifested — in the client’s home.
“You always want the interior design to reflect the exterior,” Daley said. “I do home consultations that bring me inside the home so I can really get a sense for how the interior will eventually connect with the exterior.”
M Home serves those in the western suburbs, but she also has helped design interiors as far away as Bluffton, South Carolina.
Travel is part of the business — every year Martha travels to New York City, Atlanta, High Point, N.C. and Texas to attend shows to stay on the cutting edge of home interior design.
Notable
• Earned her “Best Overall Interior Design” at the Northern Illinois Home Builder’s 2006 Cavalcade
• Martha Daley and James Scott Builders combined to earn 14 awards in the 2006 Cavalcade
• More than 300 customers toured the shop during the Nov. 27 Christmas Walk sponsored by the Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce
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“I live vicariously through my customers,” Daley said. “The variety I encounter is exciting, from condos in the city to beach houses on the water.”
Philosophy
“My work philosophy is to try and temper passion with discipline to create function and unique beauty in design.”
Favorites
CUISINE Italian
RESTAURANT La Sorella Di Francesca, Naperville
HOME DECORATING SHOW “Divine Design” with Candice Olson
ACTIVITIES Antiquing, and having “down time” at the lake
Martha Daley attacks each home interior design opportunity as if her client’s home is her own.
Daley, owner of M Home Inc., opened her business Nov. 2 in downtown Hinsdale.
“I set up the shop like a home center so when people walk in they can see entire rooms,” said Daley, who grew up in New Hampshire and worked for 15 years as an interior designer and a recruiter with Walter E. Smythe, a custom home furnishings company.
From finding the right accessory to enhance a living room to redesigning an entire home, Daley said operating a business that handles a variety of home decorating tasks is the opportunity of a lifetime.
The store, a 2,500-square-foot showroom at 48 S. Washington St., is the contact point for clients. But Daley does her best work where her expertise will be manifested — in the client’s home.
“You always want the interior design to reflect the exterior,” Daley said. “I do home consultations that bring me inside the home so I can really get a sense for how the interior will eventually connect with the exterior.”
M Home serves those in the western suburbs, but she also has helped design interiors as far away as Bluffton, South Carolina.
Travel is part of the business — every year Martha travels to New York City, Atlanta, High Point, N.C. and Texas to attend shows to stay on the cutting edge of home interior design.
Notable
• Earned her “Best Overall Interior Design” at the Northern Illinois Home Builder’s 2006 Cavalcade
• Martha Daley and James Scott Builders combined to earn 14 awards in the 2006 Cavalcade
• More than 300 customers toured the shop during the Nov. 27 Christmas Walk sponsored by the Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce
& quotable
“I live vicariously through my customers,” Daley said. “The variety I encounter is exciting, from condos in the city to beach houses on the water.”
Philosophy
“My work philosophy is to try and temper passion with discipline to create function and unique beauty in design.”
Favorites
CUISINE Italian
RESTAURANT La Sorella Di Francesca, Naperville
HOME DECORATING SHOW “Divine Design” with Candice Olson
ACTIVITIES Antiquing, and having “down time” at the lake
