With over 60 collective years of interior design experience, our design team is dedicated to offering you the interior design service you deserve. Design is meant to be fun, and we look forward to sharing that experience with you.

 

has been practicing interior design since 1982 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has lived in the Middle East, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the African continent to evaluate architectural themes and design trends. She is currently President of M.L. Designs, Inc., an interior design firm specializing in custom residential and professional office interiors since 1984. Her work strives to reflect her clients’ personalities and lifestyles. Both function and beauty play important roles in her work. In Mary Lynn’s words, “I always listen to my client’s wishes. I then let quality and appropriateness to location, lifestyle, budget and architecture determine our goal for the individual project.”

Mary Lynn is committed to increasing both her knowledge and that of those around her. She is currently an active professional member of IIDA (The International Interior Design Association), is an allied member of ASID (The American Society of Interior Design) and has served on several interior design boards. She has also taught an Interior Design Class annually since 1987 to the general public to broaden their personal knowledge and appreciation of Interior Design.

In addition to a degree from Mitchell College, where she majored in Art, Mary Lynn has taken many design courses throughout both the United States and Great Britain, including classes at the Inchbald School of Design in London.

Mary Lynn has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. She has won the Governors Club Custom Home annual award for the best interior design several times in the past ten years, as well as being recognized as a member of the Best Team Project in Governors Club on three occasions. Mary Lynn’s designs have also been selected as prize winners in the Durham and Orange County’s Parade of Homes. Most notably, Mary Lynn Cox has appeared on HGTV.

Mary Lynn and her husband, Dr. Mason Cox, Jr., are residents of Chapel Hill and Morehead City, North Carolina. They have two grown sons, Mason Cox III, and Jeffrey Cox, both of Chapel Hill, and six grandchildren.
 

has been actively involved in the design community for the past twenty years. With a degree from Wellesley College in Art History, Margo began her career selecting and placing art in both residential and commercial interiors. She now enjoys designing spaces which are both inviting and comfortable. She is married to William Kane, a physician at Duke University Medical Center, and has two grown children, Molly and Will.
 

graduated from the Savannah School of Art and Design in 1997 and since then has been active in interior designing. Her career began in Morehead City, NC and continued with her move to the Triangle in 2001. As both designer and artist, Ami likes to assist her clients in visualizing how change will affect their living spaces. Ami is married to Scott Wells and has a young daughter, Ava, in elementary school.
 

recently returned to Chapel Hill, where she grew up, from Morehead City to join our design team. After successfully renovating one home, Jennifer designed and built two other custom homes, while assisting Mary Lynn in her coastal projects. Jennifer attended East Carolina University where she focused her efforts in public relations. Jennifer is passionate about healthy living and is very involved in fund raising for the UNC Lineberger Cancer Research Center. She is married to Mason O. Cox III and they have three children.

 


 


 

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