Fresh Eyes For Your Home

Joanna is a bonafide professional! Her knowledge base is seamless, her listening skills astute, her taste impeccable. She helped me choose a carpet for my new home working with the pieces I already had and also wanted -I am so excited because we choose a carpet that adds incredible dimension to the new space, offering sophistication and a modern touch to a traditional home! I just can’t say enough about her talent and professionalism. Plus we had great fun!!!

I highly recommend Joanna at Fresh Eyes for your Home for any decorating or renovation project! She is professional, knowledgeable, skilled, creative, and warm, and it is a pleasure to work with her. She attends to every detail and is responsive and helpful in all of the stages. It was fun to shop with her for furniture, flooring, lighting fixtures, paint colors and accent pieces (tasks I would typically not enjoy!) and her great eye and vision for design made an otherwise stressful process almost easy! And I think she truly cared as much about the small accent pieces for my new coffee table as

When I was looking for someone to guide me in updating my home's decor, I was fortunate to find Joanna Cohlan. From start to finish, Joanna was a pleasure to work, provided excellent suggestions, and found the perfect solutions for my decorating needs. Whether your project is large or small, Joanna will be a valuable asset with her professionalism, artistic eye, and lovely personality.

Working with Joanna was a fun experience because of her excitement around using our art and furniture in an entirely different and new space having transitioned from a large home. We particularly valued her knowledge when it came to selecting lighting, cabinetry, new tile, flooring and countertops that worked with our eclectic taste. Joanna’s willingness to explore, our ideas helped to personalize choices to suit our lifestyle. The experience was like being on a joyful adventure with a guide who helped you to get to the best places, kept you safe when making choices and on time for deadlines

I have had the pleasure working with Joanna on two separate projects. In 2016 she helped me with my Connecticut home including new fixtures and furnishing throughout. When I decided to move back to New York City (in 2020!), Joanna was my first phone call.
Joanna excels at understanding my needs and applying her great sense of style to bring together existing pieces and features with new purchases. I rely on her great taste for suggestion on all my new purchases.
Even better Joanna has helped me save money by passing through her designer discounts and pushing back on vendors when she felt estimates

I’ve worked with Joanna several times over the last seven years to decorate my home. She is professional, reliable, honest and has fantastic taste. Not one to force her ideas on you, she listens to your ideas and brings them to life in a thoughtful way. She utilized my existing midcentury pieces and mixed them with new contemporary pieces to make my home a genuine reflection of my family. I can’t recommend her highly enough. Plus, she’s fun to work with.

Joanna had designed, planned and decorated three apartments for me. She is my go-to person for a great looking home! From my cute and charming 100 year old apartment, to my loft, and now - my LAST and final apartment in NYC - she always makes them shine. She has a wonderful sense of scale, and placement of furniture, which is so important. As I have collected too much furniture over the years, she is great at editing! And she goes shopping with me to help find the perfect pieces.
Additionally she supervised the total gut renovation of my parents apartment (the 100 year old one!). They lived there

Joanna is the very best. Her taste is always current - she knows what is “now” and she has a spectacular eye.
I have used her to design my entire large office from construction design to interior furnishings, she gut renovated 3 bathrooms in my home and mine in the master bedroom is my favorite room in my house. Joanna designed my daughter’s room when she moved back with her husband and my grandchild’s nursery.
I do not often say this but if you want a great looking space, with a designer with a great eye, fast and pays attention to detail and can work on any budget, you are crazy not

Every time I walk into my family room I think of Joanna and how she so beautifully transformed this room into a space we just love being in. Her sense of style and attention to detail is superb. She's a pleasure to work with and extremely reliable. Joanna will not disappoint...that's for sure.

Joanna has such a great eye for design. She is absolutely amazing with colors and pattern. But, what I find even more valuable is her ability to use space well. She knows how to work with small spaces so you organize it and utilize to the max. And, she knows how and when to leave space open. Very few people have this innate talent. I also find her very easy to talk to. She "gets" you and she knows how to solve your problems. I can't recommend her enought