With over 15 years in residential and commercial interior design. Leigh Calmar Psaltos, an ASID allied member and an IRN certified member brings a wealth of experience that is unique among interior redecorators and valuable to her private residential clients.  Clients have included an array of celebrities and powerful executives as well as corporate clients such as JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup.

Leigh Psaltos trained personally with Lauri Ward, nationally recognized pioneer of one day redecorating, bestselling author of Use What You Have InteriorsTM and the founder of the Interior Refiners NetworkTM who has appeared on Oprah and HGTV.

In the mid- 90's, Ms. Psaltos worked for the late Naomi Leff. She credits Ms. Leff as being one of her most influential mentors. Under Leff's tutelage, Leigh participated on projects for several high profile film stars and executives, both residential and commercial. Subsequently, Ms. Psaltos worked on additional high profile projects for the designer, Stephen Shadley. In January 2005, both Leff and Shadley were recognized by Architectural Digest as among the "30 Deans of American Design."

With a strong background as a fine artist, Leigh chose to start her professional career as a Mechanical Artist and Art Director for Boston's leading advertising agency, Hill, Holiday Connors, Cosmopoulos.

Ms. Psaltos earned her Certificate in Interior Design from the Boston Architectural College, where she studied interior architecture and won the Interior Design Thesis Award for retail design. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art/Watercolor and Oils from The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio and presented her work at the Ebert Art Center in a show entitled: "Landscaping with Human Forms". She also studied under the late master Mark Winslow Potter while at The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut and with Richard C. Pionk at The Art Students League of New York.

Leigh currently resides on the Hudson Riverfront in Northern New Jersey with her husband and son.

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