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Abat-Jour focuses on making your projects as unique as your personality. Timeless designs with personal attention to details that add value to your home. By blending your existing pieces with new or repurposed one, we create a sense of comfort resulting in a highly personalized space. We enjoy working closely with clients over the course of the project to achieve an exclusive end result. Every new project is viewed as an opportunity to further challenge the imagination, produce quality and display versatility. By appointment, we can come to your home and collaborate on creating your custom home designing plan while taking into consideration your lifestyle requirements, time frame and budget.

The word expert is defined as: a person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area. That definition describes our staff at Acadian Home Theater & Automation perfectly. We believe you will not find a more knowledgeable, experienced, dedicated, ethical, passionate and hard-working group. We take pride in treating your project as if it were our own. This combination is truly what separates us from our competitors. In the world of home technology and home theater design, just wanting to do a good job simply is not enough. You must also possess the knowledge to do so.

Acadian Home Theater and Automation has the distinction of being awarded one of the Top 100 Integrators by CE Pro, the leading information source for the Custom Electronics industry, and a respected voice in the industry. Acadian is the only Louisiana Company awarded CE Pro Top 100 Integrator 8 Years in a row.

Anne McCanless Designs is your home design specialist. From start to finish she can help you make your space look amazing! Whether you are starting with brand new construction or looking to refresh and renovate your space, Anne can guide you in the right direction. Picking furniture, fabrics, lighting, rugs and accessories has been her specialty for over 25 years!

Colleen Waguespack brings over twenty years of experience to her Interior Design Practice based out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  She is as comfortable designing a contemporary home as she is blending antiques with modern upholstery and eclectic art collections.  Her signature style is a well-edited home that tells the story of her clients and reflects their personal preferences, style, and background.  She works with her clients' ideas, guiding them to a warm, pared-down and modern aesthetic as she helps refine and expand their sense of style.  Each project is a true collaboration with her clients that delivers a sophisticated and livable finished product.  

After graduating from the LSU School of Interior Design in 1997, Colleen started her career in Washington, DC where she worked for ten years as a project designer for commercial architecture firms designing corporate interiors.  She worked on numerous award winning and published projects ranging from corporate headquarters and non-profit organizations to prestigious law firms. She worked for the firm that was on the forefront of environmentally-responsible interiors and collaborated with Lees Commercial carpets on their first line of sustainable carpets.  

In 2007, she and her husband, Stephen, moved with their three sons to Baton Rouge, LA.  Shortly after, she joined Holden & Dupuy Interiors, a nationally-recognized residential design firm based out of New Orleans.  In 2015 she founded Fig & Dove, a couture line of holiday décor designed to complement the interiors on which she was working. With over twenty years of professional experience in Interior Design and clients throughout the United States, Colleen launched her own Interiors practice in 2016.

Founded by Dixon Smith in 1950, the Shop began as a “Design Studio” on St. Charles Street in downtown Baton Rouge.  Known for her love of clean lines, Dixon designed with the idea that “beautiful rooms and furniture are to be used and enjoyed”.  Today, “the Shop” is owned and operated by Dixon's son, Jim Smith, and has three interior designers on staff who take Dixon’s beliefs and apply them to their projects every day.  And with over 10,000 square feet of space featuring a wide array of brands and looks, Dixon Smith Interiors has an ability to offer the style and products anyone is looking for. 

At Dixon Smith Interiors, we want everyone to come in and experience our Shop.  Come and see for yourself why you will feel at home with our staff and everything we have to offer.

Erin recognized her love for interiors at a young age. Her appreciation for antiques and fine fabrics led her to pursue a degree in design. After graduating from the LSU School of Interior Design, Erin began her career as a full-time designer in Baton Rouge. She began Erin Mixson Interiors in 2011.

Erin’s design philosophy is a collected and layered interior. Her classic style is a combination of arts and antiques laced with current, contemporary pieces. She believes in the timeless tradition of function meeting style. Erin’s eye for detail allows her to create designs that are both fresh and unique.

Erin aims to help clients define their own style by intermingling their personal collections with her curated selections. Her design goal is to evoke a specific mood within a space, through which the client can really connect. Stemming from being a mom to three boys, Erin creates interiors that are both elegant and durable. Therefore, she is constantly reflecting on a creative approach to simplify the constraints of daily life.

“Antiques for the modern world” are the words we live by at Fireside Antiques. We celebrate the craftsmanship of woodworkers, gilders, and artists of previous centuries, while embracing modern comfort and style. Our love for European antiques began in the early 80’s and has never left us. We travel the countryside of France and England and have loved cultivating  strong relationships over the 35+ years in the business with our European friends.

We are proud to offer the best of European antiques, exclusive reproduction furniture and lighting, and a wide variety of home decor and accessories. All are available in a range of prices and styles that are appropriate for both the everyday home and the finest of environments.

I’m Anna Napier, owner and lead organizer of In Line Organizing. I started this business as a way to do something I enjoy while helping others find the ease of daily routines inside their homes and offices.

I love an organized space, but I don’t ever expect anyone’s home to be spick-and-span 24/7, mine included. After all, we do live there. To me, organization does not mean having a spotless space; rather, it is knowing that a mess is okay because it is temporary, and when it is time to clean up, everything has a home.

I am not a minimalist by nature, but I admire those who are and really (really really) hope I wake up one day and stop forming emotional attachments to everything I own. Until then, rest assured I’m not the organizer who will show up at your home pressuring you to throw out all of your things.

Designer Albert Nolan was born and raised in the small Mississippi delta town of Yazoo City. After Graduating in 1989 from The University of Southern Mississippi with a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design and a Minor in Music Theater, Albert moved to Baton Rouge in hopes of owning his own design firm. After 7 years of training with another local design firm, Albert joined forces with fellow designer and good friend Kimberly Kimble Abel. Together, they opened Nolan-Kimble Interiors in 1996. Within the first year they became a huge success! During that same year, Kimberly decided to sell her portion of the business to Albert who keeps it going strong today.

Having been the recipient of many design awards, Albert has quite an extraordinary clientele base and has accomplished many prestige projects in the Baton Rouge and surrounding areas. He gained notoriety for the 2001 design renovation of Juban’s restaurant and has traveled  the country sharing his talent for the last 24 years. Known in the community for his award-winning acting Albert gives a great deal of extra time to Theatre Baton Rouge where he has performed for over 20 years and has served on the Board of Governors for 12 years.

Working primarily with entrepreneurs with demanding schedules, Rachel Cannon designs interiors that help her clients show up at their highest level with family, friends, and at work, by focusing on nurturing, intentionally planned spaces that promote recharging and recovering from each day. Rachel educates her clients on the importance of boundaries and quiet rooms so their energy can be preserved, both at home and at work.

Pioneering the Quiet Room movement, Rachel's philosophy has been lauded by Real Simple magazine as the next big trend in interior design. In a world that expects professionals to be on call 24/7, Rachel is changing the way we think about designing homes, advocating self-care through the concepts of guilt-free down time, quiet spaces, and personalized aesthetic choices. She hosts a weekly podcast, Loudmouth Introvert, which is focused on the needs of introverted, creative entrepreneurs building businesses in a culture that rewards extroversion, and offers private business consulting to other introverted entrepreneurs in creative industries. Rachel is a native of Baton Rouge, holding a degree in Interior Design from Louisiana State University, as well as a professional design license from the NCIDQ. 

The Red Onion is located on an expansive, wooded piece of property on Perkins Road near Pecue Lane. Serene and peaceful, yet just around the corner, simply visiting is an adventure in itself. 

Bridging design and flora, Red Onion offers a carefully curated assortment of plants and unique home goods. With artwork, jewelry, decor,  houseplants, candles and pottery, we are sure to have the perfect gift for those you love, or for yourself!

Ty Larkins Interiors is a full service design firm specializing in high end residential and commercial hospitality projects. Our design approach is "livable elegant modern" for how we live today. We emphasize mixing antiques, vintage and new modern clean lined pieces in a sophisticated, unpredictable yet harmonious way.  

Ty's work has been featured in national and local publications including House Beautiful, Southern Living, HGTV magazine, Living Etc., New Orleans magazine, InRegister, Louisiana Homes and Gardens, Our Louisiana,  Louisiana Life and 225 magazine. He has also made numerous appearances on the HGTV network series Dream House for a home he designed for a young family in a Chicago suburban neighborhood.