Samantha Friedman Interior Designs Featured in Home&Design’s 2026 Top 100 Designers Portfolio
Samantha Friedman Interior Designs was featured in Home&Design’s 2026 Top 100 Designers Portfolio, a regional publication highlighting leading interior designers, architects, builders, and design professionals throughout Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
The publication highlights leading interior designers, architects, builders, and design professionals throughout the region. This year’s profile of Samantha Friedman Interior Designs focuses on the firm’s layered, livable approach to design, with an emphasis on creating homes that feel personal, functional, durable, and thoughtfully composed for the way each client actually lives.
The issue will be arriving in mailboxes in June and will also be available at the DC Design Center and on newsstands throughout the region.
Excerpt from Home&Design Top 100 Designers Portfolio About Samantha Friedman Interior Designs
After earning a degree in hotel administration from Cornell University, Samantha Friedman began her career designing commercial kitchens for large-scale hospitality projects. During this time, she watched architects and interior designers shape public-facing spaces.
“Their process felt creative and expressive in a way that deeply resonated with me,” she says. “I felt residential design would be the place where I could merge strong space planning with that sense of atmosphere and artistry, combining discipline with creativity.”
Friedman founded her firm in 2007, initially orchestrating single-room transformations and small-scale renovations. Over time, she began collaborating with architects and builders on full-home redesigns and new construction, increasing the size of her team to manage complex projects with detail and coordination.
A layered aesthetic with close attention to color, texture and scale makes homes feel composed rather than cluttered, says Friedman.
“I design for my clients and their needs, not based on a particular style or trend,” she explains. “Most of my clients have kids and pets, and I strive to instill durability, flexibility and thoughtful storage so their spaces can handle the chaos of daily life.”
In recent years, Samantha Friedman Interior Designs has received multiple design awards and been featured in local and national publications.
Inspired Livable Design
The feature reflects the foundation of Samantha Friedman Interior Designs’ work: creating homes that are layered, personal, functional, and designed for real life.
For Samantha and her team, every project begins with the people who live there. Rather than designing around trends or a fixed signature style, the firm focuses on how each client lives day to day — balancing beauty, durability, comfort, and thoughtful details that make a home feel truly their own.
