Meet the
in Detail team

Meet Cheryl

Poobah, Rainmaker, and Creative Chief

Owner, Creative Chief and saucy critic of the status quo, Cheryl Kees Clendenon, DGD (if you don’t know what this stands for, call us!), has been influencing the design industry with out of the bread box, no way in hell, ok maybe will consider that, wow what a great idea– transformative ideas—for 22 years.
 
Full-time folks. No time off for good behavior. Never seemed to want it either.
Cheryl’s outspoken irreverence leads to confident and innovative solutions to the most challenging design parameters with a fearless exploration of all channels to solve problems and create unique interiors that reflect the client, not the design of the day.
 
Cheryl is a business strategy advisor, mentor, cheerleader for small business creatives, savvy shopkeeper, and writer with an interior design day job that keeps her busy. Somehow, she still finds time to be a mom to a menagerie of three in the animal kingdom and a wife to Randy.

Meet Liz

VP of Everything and the
“Get it Done” Work Wife

Clients ranging from San Diego to the Jersey shore and all along the Gulf Coast have embraced Liz Lapan, the woman behind the woman who gets “it” done. An accomplished designer in her own right with a fantastic sense of color & pattern, Liz can wear the designer hat in the morning and the project manager hat at noon and return to the office, being the ultimate manager of all things. You have never met a woman like Liz-o-matic! Clients love her, subs respect her, and the team adores her.
 
If you are ready to embrace trusting the process, Liz might bake you a blueberry buckle thingy (she is from New Hampshire—we call it a cobbler here in the South, but it is tasty—whatever a Yankee might call it!)

Meet Libby

Lead Designer • VP Trade Program • Candle Studio Director

Libby is a lead designer and wiz at delivering the creative vision to our clients in our presentations through 3D rendering. She has a hand in the design of all of our projects, has a great design eye, and brings a unique perspective to the team – the apple didn’t fall far from the tree from our owner Cheryl, who happens to be her mother!

Did we mention we work anywhere?
Vacation home in another city?
A new build in another state?
A chateau in France?
Call us RIGHT NOW, PLEASE.

Top to bottom, front to back. Over and under. We deliver a comprehensive design experience like no other.

That is our guarantee to you.

OUR PENSACOLA INTERIOR DESIGN
TEAM IS COMMITTED TO AN EXCELLENT
CLIENT EXPERIENCE!

The yin and the yang to the success of our firm. The apples in our pie. The reason Liz and Cheryl face every day with excitement, passion, and a renewed faith in the power of teamwork.

Cheryl Kees Clendenon

Poobah • Rainmaker • Creative Chief

Liz lapan

OPERATIONS DIRECTOR • DESIGNER • VP OF EVERYTHING

LIBBY CARVER

Designer • VP Trade Program • Candle Studio Director

Althea Pickett

RETAIL DESIGN ASSOCIATE

Stephanie Allen

DESIGN ASSOCIATE • DGD MARKETING COORDINATOR

Gabrielle Thomas

RETAIL DESIGN DIRECTOR • EVENTS COORDINATOR

Miranda Henderson

OFFICE MANAGER • DESIGN TRADE PROGRAM ASSISTANT

Execute

Design

Create

Manage