Bliss By Kira

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As a first time home buyer, I was struggling with making decisions and coming up a with a good design for my living room which had been empty for the past two years. Kira scheduled an appointment with me for a design consultation and blew me away with her passion for design and down-to-earth personality. She listened to all my prefernces and delivered 100% to my taste and budget. She was always responsive to my questions/emails and would always calm me when I would struggle with making choices or was in doubt. She kept my family's style in context and delivered a living room that suited both our personalities and taste. On the day of the reveal,I could not belive how the space was transformed to a cozy "living" space that we could have for our family and friends - a place we love to come to at the end of the day and entertain our friends in. She gave us a room where every piece has a story and meaning. My 5 year old was esctatic to a have a space for him in the room meant for grown-ups and now I am so proud of having a beautiful room and can not wait to work with her on my other rooms.

There are a few great products and services I've purchased in my life that I don't regret one bit; My iPad, my foam mattress bed, my car --- those types of things -- but what has to top them all has been utilizing the services of Kira from Bliss By Kira.I recently moved into a new town home in Irving in mid 2011. As a single man in his early 40s, I wanted to decorate the place with a sense of my personality, or maybe better put -- I wanted my place to reflect the personality I WANT to have. In any event I decided to do something I've never done before, and utilize the talents of a local designer to help me fully decorate my new home.Kira spent time with me to carefully understand my style, budget, and timeframe to get it all completed. She then drew up a plan with milestones every month, building a complete project plan for my project. All these things I would expect of any good designer, but the proof of her real value came in the execution of her plan -- here's where Kira's true value shines.Over the course of several months, Kira scheduled contractors to paint, hang wallpaper, build shutters, perform electrical/audio/video upgrades to my place, and on and on. Kira herself spend countess hours shopping purchasing furniture, decorative items, staging my place, and replacing items that didn't have the proper aesthetic she wanted. She even arranged to have large custom art pieces created to give my place a real customized look and appeal that I could personally identify with.The end result is a home that is absolutely fantastic! She was able to create a place that literally drops the jaws of my guests when they enter, makes friends and family take out their cameras and start taking photos. And I live there! I can't believe what a great job she did, beating my expectation and obliterated what I could have done alone without her. I also realized, when she was wrapping up arranging the large furniture items, that with her decorator's knowledge and contacts across the city, she saved more than her totally fee. If I tried to decorate my place myself, it would have cost me more and certainly would have not been as nice as what Kira was able to accomplish. (I'm not saying you can expect the same level of savings, it all depends on the job, but that's what happened with my project). So all in all, utilizing the talents of Kira for designing and decorating my town home is up there with one of the best services I've ever utilized -- in my entire life. (OK, second to maybe health insurance or something life-critical, but you get the idea...) Check out her website, there are some photos of my place on her blog (as of the writing of this review), and I cannot emphasize that if you're looking for decorator, deigned, home stager, you should put Kira on the short list of those to speak with in the Dallas area. She also does wedding design, holiday decorating, and other services that I can only assume she's equally skilled to do.