Kittrell & Associates

Kittrell & Associates is an award-winning design firm specializing in interior design for new custom homes, remodeling and renovations with completed residential projects that have ranged in size from 2,700 square feet to 11,000 square feet. Since its inception in 1998 the firm has designed homes, second homes and vacation homes throughout Southern California.

If you are just updating spaces, Kittrell & Associates offers a wide range of home furnishing resources and finished interiors to match every taste and style ranging from traditional to transitional to contemporary or any style a Client desires.

Designer, Chris Kittrell, CID and Allied Member ASID, has won five ASID Design Awards – three Gold Awards for Excellence in Kitchen Design, a Platinum for Excellence in Home Office Design, and most recently, the 2009 “Home of the Year” as featured in Orange Coast Magazine, November, 2009.

Chris Kittrell, Interior Designer

In addition to her credentials as in Interior Designer, Chris has earned a BA in Art Education, an AA in Interior Design, holds an MBA and has extensive business experience. She is a professor of design at Interior Designers Institute in Newport Beach, CA, teaching both Certificate and Masters in Design courses.

Chris Kittrell has strong relationships with builders and contractors who continue to refer Clients because of her ability to work as part of a team, to keep projects running smoothly and meet construction deadlines. Professionalism and strong relationships with contractors and vendors alike set Kittrell and Associates apart.

 We pride ourselves in taking a business-like and professional approach to each project. We work efficiently, cutting down the overwhelming number of choices Clients want to make, which saves their time and money in the long run. Design fees are a small percentage of Clients’ overall budgets and end results are always beautiful and livable.  

Custom homes and remodeling kitchens and baths are specialty areas for Kittrell & Associates. The firm has successfully designed homes under construction ranging in size from 2,700 square feet to 11,000 square feet.

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Kittrell & Associates

“Building a home is a huge undertaking and can be very stressful. We found Chris mid-way through our process and she quickly organized our whole process, giving us great advice on small and large details of items we would have never have known without her. She is efficient, flexible and giving us valuable information and we couldn't have done this without her by our side. Once she knows your style, she focuses to making everything come together and our home is turning out to be exactly what we dreamed of.”

  – Mary and Larry Schannault

About Chris Kittrell

Chris Kittrell earned her Certified Interior Designer status by passing the CQRID and California State Building Codes Test. She attends continuing education classes to remain current in her industry, and teaches a Masters in Design classes at INTERIOR DESIGNERS INSTITUTE, Newport Beach, California. She is a Certified Interior Designer and has been an active contributor to ASID as an Allied Member and volunteer.

In 2008 Chris Kittrell was chosen as the ASID Design Chair for the Philharmonic House of Design overseeing 27 volunteer ASID designers, as they created the interior for an 8,500 SF showcase home built in Crystal Cove by Stonefield Development.

In 2006 Kittrell designed the Master Bath in the Philharmonic House of Design custom home in Covenant Hills, built by Mulvaney & Company and also participated in 2005 designing the Home Office of the featured home.

Many of Kittrell’s residential designs have been published in Orange Coast Magazine and in the OC Register’s Home and Garden section.

Chris Kittrell, Interior Designer

Background

Chris Kittrell, Certified Interior Designer

  • Allied Member ASID
  • NKBA Member
  • BIA Member
  • MBA, Loyola Marymount University
  • BA, Art Education
  • AA, Interior Design
  • Professor, Interior Designers Institute
  • Published work in Orange Coast Magazine

Awards

Kittrell & Associates has been recognized with numerous awards including:

  • Excellence in Kitchen Design, Home Office Design and Home of the Year.
  • ASID/ OC Home Magazine’s Gold Award - Excellence in Kitchen Design, 2004
  • ASID/OC Home Magazine Platinum Award - Excellence in Home Office Design, 2005
  • ASID/OC Home Magazine Gold Award - Excellence in Kitchen Design, 2006
  • ASID/Orange Coast Magazine Gold Award - Excellence in Kitchen Design, 2008
  • ASID/Orange Coast Magazine Platinum Award – Home of the Year, 2009