Melanie was a pleasure to work with and had some of the best designed plans that made my life as a general building contractor easier. She was very responsive and professional. I would highly recommend her for any jobs in the future. My client and my crew really enjoyed having her.

We really enjoyed working with Melanie for our bathroom and kitchen remodel. Her design ideas really helped us elevate our look. Melanie's designs stayed true to our nearly 100-year-old cottage with its almost Tyrolean feel while finding a way to update it. As with any old home, surprises come along the way, and I really appreciated how Melanie worked with us to solve the snafus quickly and collaboratively. Her relationship with vendors and suppliers is exceptional and really helped create posit

I have had the great pleasure of working with Melanie on several kitchen renovations in Santa Cruz. She is professional, talented and an organized designer with great creative energy! We at SpaceCamp Design Build, Inc. look forward to many more successful collaborations. Kindly, Trevor.

Melanie designed a beautiful kitchen for our home! The small kitchen was 34 yrs. old with old, dark and well-worn cabinets, flooring in poor condition, limited cabinet space, old & worn out tile counter tops, and a low ceiling with old florescent lighting. From the very beginning of our working with Melanie, her enthusiasm, beautiful visions, and incredible creative solutions for the area not only fit our needs, but went way beyond what we imagined the area could possibly look like. We raised

I’m a general contractor and I’ve had the pleasure of working with Melanie on several projects. Her designs are well thought out, beautiful and sensible, but she also has a knack for bringing together various elements to make a space exciting and unique. She’s good at listening to clients to get a sense of their needs and aesthetic. She’s responsive, hard working, goes the extra mile to make a project go smoothly. Overall a lovely person to work with.

Melanie was very knowledgeable, very calm in a true collaboration, incorporating my ideas and delivering good solutions.

I absolutely loved working with Melanie on the designs for Kitchen, Bath and Fireplace. From start to finish I felt well looked after and actually enjoyed the process. I was impressed that the end result looked exactly like her initial renderings and whenever there was a hiccup she immediately responded to the issue at hand. My contractors also commented on how wonderful it was to work with Melanie. I highly recommend Happy House to those who want a designer with heart, vision, talent, expertise

Melanie is absolutely wonderful to work with. She is talented, knowledgeable and knows how to ask the right questions to get to the essence to what her clients are looking for. Melanie listened to our needs, noted the space limitation for a new kitchen design and came up with an innovative yet practical design and material options that fit well within the current look and flow of the house. I highly recommend using her for your design needs.