Press

Beyond Coastal, in print.

That’s what St. Pete Life called its feature on me. Finally, someone said it.

St. Pete Life, January/February 2025, Beyond Coastal feature on Michelle Jennings: spread 1

St. Pete Life January/February 2025

Beyond Coastal: An artistic eye on home design

Anne Zimmerman Briand on my warm minimalism and my start in commercial design. Rooms that often begin with the client’s art. Bold wall color. Interiors past the beachy look, true to the architecture, from 1920s bungalows to downtown condos.

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Best of Houzz Nine years between 2014 and 2023

Nine years for design, one for customer service

Design: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Customer service: 2015. My Houzz profile has the projects, and what my clients had to say.

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ThreeBestRated 2019 to 2023

One of the 3 best in St. Petersburg

ThreeBestRated listed MJ Designs as one of the 3 best interior designers in St. Petersburg, 2019 to 2023. That’s my city, three generations deep.

ASID Professional membership

Allied Member of ASID

I’m an Allied Member of the American Society of Interior Designers. I also hold a design degree from the University of Florida’s College of Architecture, and I’ve been doing this for 28 years.

Sitting room with blue velvet swivel chairs, an ivory sofa and a blue and ivory patterned rug, at Snell Isle in St. Petersburg. Interior design by MJ Designs

Tell me about your home.

A floor plan that fights you? A historic home whose inside forgot its outside? My assistant reaches out first. If it sounds like a good fit, I’ll call. Then we meet at my office, centrally located in St. Petersburg.

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