Michelle A. Lecinski, ASID
  Founder / Licensed Interior Designer

Characterized by a feeling of genuine warmth, every interior designed by Custom Edge Design is a direct reflection of a client's needs, personal lifestyle, and budget.

Interiors by Custom Edge Design are designed to support and enhance the lives of those who inhabit them.  All of the company's projects are a delicate balance of client needs/desires and beautiful, comfortable design.

Michelle A. Lecinski, ASID, founder and principal, excels in her ability to create beautiful yet livable interiors for her clients.  Her ability to visualize the possibilities of custom elements keeps her designs exclusive.  A quiet sense of drama and casual sophistication is achieved through a combination of rich textures, appealing shapes, infusions of foliage, harmonious fabrics, fluid color palettes and carefully-selected accessories.

Michelle believes that client expectation is the most important element to a successful project outcome. 

“Every client has a unique personality and will expect information characteristic to that personality.  It is my job to find out what types of information will be important to them, and then deliver it to them.  Also, each client has an individual style or at least can recognize a style they admire.  Spouses generally have differing opinions on the subject of style, yet each person wants their home to be a reflection of themselves.  The design project is not about me and my personal style, it’s about them.  My challenge is to establish each person’s expectation for the project, analyze how individual styles can be combined harmoniously…..then the result will be a solution that best matches what each client expects”.

Michelle A. Lecinski

• The State of Illinois – registered Interior Designer
  License No. 161-003124; accepted April 2005
   

• The National Council for Interior Design Qualification
  Successfully passed the NCIDQ Examination on first attempt – October 2003
  NCIDQ Certificate No. 019202
   

• American Society of Interior Designers
  Professional ASID Member - October 2003
   

• Interior Design – Associate in Applied Science
  William Rainey Harper College - Palatine, IL – 2001
   

• Fashion Merchandising – Bachelor of Science
  Iowa State University - Ames, IA – 1993

Because of her many accomplishments, past work experience and notable integrity and professionalism, Michelle is a registered Interior Designer with the state of Illinois.  In order to achieve this status, she applied for, was accepted to sit for and passed the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) Exam, an extensive exam for interior designers.  Michelle has achieved Professional Membership status in ASID in which she has been active for several years both as a student and now as a practicing interior designer. 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP represents the highest level of interior design professionalism and its prerequisites are correspondingly demanding. An applicant must fulfill educational and/or practical experience requirements, be engaged in professional practice, and have completed the National Council for Interior Design Qualifications exam.

ALLIED PRACTITIONER is a classification for practicing interior designers, many of whom are working towards completion of the requirements for ASID Professional membership.

For more information on ASID, please click on their logo: 

For more information on NCIDQ, please click on their logo: