Home and Design – Top 100 Designers 2012

Visible through expansive windows, spectacular views are enhanced by window treatments in an elegant living room and in the sitting area of a kitchen/family room. Fitzsimmons punctuated a neutral palette with pops of green in the sunroom of the 2009 Baltimore Symphony Show House and opted for earth tones in a room she designed for the 2011 Baltimore Show House at the Ritz-Carlton.

Designing waterfront homes is a specialty of Gina Fitzsimmons, principal of an Annapolis-based, full-service design firm, Fitzsimmons Design Associates. For more than 20 years she has cultivated an experience at choosing and placing furniture so as to frame, rather than obscure, the view — always the most important element of a waterfront room. “It’s important to pay close attention as you frame the view with the interior furnishings,” she explains. “You don’t want to detract from the water.”

Fitzsimmons describes her style as “natural, beautiful and tailored, yet comfortable, functional, unpretentious and easy going.” She and her team gather information about the client’s functional needs, aesthetic preferences, mood, budget and time frame, then customize a style to fit the client’s vision.

Fitzsimmons gains clarity about a project by promoting dialog with the client about preferences and priorities. From the presentation to the final installation, she and her team are making studied selections of how each piece interacts with the design to create the best possible results.

Gina Fitzsimmons is NCIDQ-qualified and recently won first place in an ASID contest at the Baltimore Symphony Show House. In 2011, her work was published in Chesapeake Home & Living, Annapolis Home and The Baltimore Sun.

— Source: Home & Design