Take an innate passion for interior design, add decades of award-winning experience, and the result is an exciting new endeavor by company president Sandra Steiner-Houck and her team at Steiner-Houck & Associates, LLC (www.steinerhouck.com).
Adding unique and personalized furniture to their repertoire under the label Private Upholstery Collection further allows her and her design team to up the ante on creating unique interior design for clients. Steiner-Houck found that offering personally created furniture pieces finalized the look and enabled them to hone their commitment to creating a "total environment" for clients.
The collection organically "evolved this past year," says Steiner-Houck, after realizing that with her resources and clients' interest, a furniture line could be possible. At this time, pieces are solely being made on a piece-by-piece basis, per client request, but the process is "fluid and ongoing," she adds.
Currently enjoying over thirty years in the field of interior design, Steiner-Houck says she always wanted to design. A Lancaster native, she pursued a degree from Bauder Fashion College in Miami, Florida, and worked in a high-end kitchen showroom right out of school. For the past 23 years, she has owned her own business, one recognized both nationally and internationally for eye-catching designs catered to a client's specific personality.
Currently, the collection features upholstered pieces like sofas, chairs, ottomans and stools created by a few trusted manufacturers within the United States. It features such unique pieces as an on-trend metallic silver armless Studio Chair, sculpted with "contemporary soft lines" and finished with nail head trim.
Each piece receives a name. Another one-of-a-kind piece, the Main Street Bench, epitomizes sleek, modern décor, featuring Swarovski crystal buttons on each of the bench's two custom bolster pillows.
Personifying Steiner-Houck's talent, the guest Diamante Chairs in her own office feature adjoining semicircles finished in a "beautiful metallic silver" and upholstered in a "luxurious pearlescent leather." She adds, "This style chair could be used as an accent chair or as dining room chairs as well."
“Interior” design, however, may become a misnomer as trends continue to incorporate outdoor living spaces as part of a personal and holistic design. Steiner-Houck says that creating unique outdoor furnishings came about as people "realized it's our capability" to create and transform underutilized areas into family gathering and entertaining spaces.
With Steiner-Houck and her team able to create livable, upscale, unique designs for clients both inside and out, the entirety of a home can become a conversation piece.
by Crystal M. Schreffler/ Photography by Peter Leach
