ANNETTE ENGLISH has been practicing independently since 1995.  Her current projects and experience are in both the residential and commercial fields. Along with many exquisite private residences, she has designed medical facilities, offices, churches, privately managed hotel facilities as well as a Vail Marriott property.  She is celebrating 36 years of professional practice.  She states, “It is a such a gift to be in a creative profession which brings me such a diversity of challenges and allows me to establish long-term relationships with my clients.”  “It is most rewarding to hear positive feedback from my clientele about how much more comfortable, functional and exciting their homes are and the compliments they receive from their guests.”

Annette’s background insures a sensitivity to the design process that will create or highlight your favorite architectural elements as features, focal points and character for the room.  A crucial understanding of the psychological and physiological impact of color on different age groups helps her to enrich and enliven spaces appropriately. Studies in lighting broaden her ability to make sure that each area is correctly illuminated for the different uses and tasks performed in the room. She says, “The detailed attention of each room, down to the fabrication and selection of floral arrangements, accessories and art, carries your project through to the finishing touches necessary for a successful design.”

Annette English earned a B.A. in Human Environment and Design from Michigan State University; a program nationally-accredited by FIDER (Foundation for Interior Design Education and Research) and CIDA (Council for Interior Design Accreditation) and her Lighting Certification from General Electric Lighting Institute, Nela Park, Ohio.  She has practiced with architects Ricardo Anselmo (Okemos, Michigan), Robert Brotherton (Sunlit Architecture, Crested Butte, Colorado and Las Cruces, New Mexico), Curtis Fentress and James Bradburn (now Fentress and Associates, Denver, Colorado), and Mike Stransky and Abe Gilles (now GSBS, Salt Lake City, Utah).