WELCOME TO OUR DESIGN STUDIO


Welcome, I'm glad you found your way here. Please take some time to explore our information-packed online design studio. My goal, simply put, is to provide you with a design-through-installation experience that is attentive and patient, originally creative, and professional in its execution. The result? A space that will enhance your quality of life, providing great satisfaction and enjoyment, for many years to come. See "About Us" below.

As you peruse the site, you will soon gain insight into the global way your project will evolve, as I share the inner workings of the entire design process with you. You can view inspiring images (120-my original work) in the Portfolio, and get to know me along the way as well. Our website evolves too, with an ebb and flow of new ideas, images, discussions, and news, to keep it fresh and relevant, it's never "done".

Look for these letters (SS-SVC) around the site. These letters represent truly innovative, and largely exclusive, services that I have personally developed, or adopted, to offer the best experience I can to my valued clients. These special services will make your project the best it can be, and will offer superb added value (and fun too). We clearly represent the state of the art in enhanced customer services in today's kitchen and bath design firms.

I hope that you can feel my passion for my work, and the desire to deliver the (often, only once in a lifetime) dream to my valued clients. Please pass along our web address to those you know planning a kitchen/other room. Now, I would like very much to hear about your project! Call or email me, and let's begin the conversation. Talk soon, Susan........It's nice to be home.



About Us...
Susan Serra Associates, Inc. has designed kitchen interiors and other rooms for nearly 20 years in the Long Island/NY metro area. Susan Serra, CKD designs cabinetry for your entire home, including:

Kitchen, Bath, Media Room, Library, Bar, Bedroom, Free Standing Custom Furniture Pieces, and Built Ins, everywhere.

Our diverse experience includes working directly with the homeowner, serving as designer/supplier for builders' spec homes, multi-volume middle and high end condominiums, Manhattan apartments and more. The geographic area we serve is Long Island, from the Hamptons to NYC, Westchester, New Jersey, Connecticut and beyond as required. We will provide complete design/product/installation services for clients anywhere in the U.S. We are based in Long Island, New York, with a satellite location in New York City's Upper West Side.

(SS-SVC) For clients out of the NY area (and for our local clients too): We are managing our projects via our exclusive, web-based, project management system, which archives many critical details of your project. Our innovative system, made expressly for us, manages our communications, uploaded files, images, to-dos, job scheduling issues and much more. All in one place. Always accessible, anywhere, anytime. It's easy, incredibly efficient, and it's amazing! After you read below, please go to the PROCESS page and prepare to be impressed!

Susan Serra, CKD (Certified Kitchen Designer) and NKBA member, has won national awards for her design work, has served as a judge for design contests, as a national mentor to design professionals and as a speaker at national industry conferences. Education: Parsons School of Design, NKBA's program for Kitchen Design Certification (CKD), and countless conferences and seminars presently, and over the years. Susan is the founder and publisher of the first (and only) online community for kitchen and bath designers, now 6 years old, resulting in national trade press coverage. Our industry's largest trade magazine publishes a bimonthly column on the website. Thus, Susan continually seeks out new products, trends, and information to share with her online professional audience, and our office receives new product information from around the (figurative and literal) kitchen and bath world, a quite amazing benefit to our clients.

Susan travels throughout the year to attend trade shows, participate in industry meetings, visit manufacturers' facilities, and attend industry seminars, to be current as well as ahead of the curve.



Also of note...
Today's environmental issues are such that our collective awareness has been dramatically increased in regard to issues of deforestation, sustainable resources, green building/design, global warming and more. While our firm claims no scientific expertise in these areas, our interest and awareness has risen substantially. (SS-SVC) If you are interested in producing a project which includes green products, we can help you. We have products and resources available to help you express yourself via a full or partial "green" project.

As a client of ours, whether or not you choose to pursue this green design route, Susan Serra Associates, Inc. will donate the funds to plant 50 new trees, in your behalf, in an area of the country where they are most needed. The donation, to americanforests.org, will be in your name. You will receive a certificate and acknowledgement of this commitment. Please spread the word to other acquaintances, considering a project involving cabinetry. We will repay far more, in terms of resources, than we have used.



A little more about Susan...
A different source of creativity, Susan's obsessive garden includes nearly 200 antique and modern roses, plus perennials, decorative garden structures and more. Ask for a tour if you are garden-obsessed too! A life long passion for photography is also an intensely enjoyable form of creative expression. Susan's interest in cooking is diverse, from making scratch pizzas to healthy grilling all the time on the kitchen's (real lava rocks) grill (it's a Gaggenau), to mixing it up with new and interesting fresh fruits and vegetables. Try: www.urbanorganic.net (they deliver). Inside the home, Susan's Danish heritage is the driving force behind her collections of Scandinavian artwork and artifacts, and an interest in Scandinavian interior design. Many weekends are spent in New York City, always being open to fresh ideas, products, and inspiration for our clients' projects.



Of personal note...
Life is good. Susan has a husband, since forever, and 3 nearly grown children. A family member has a neurological disorder called Asperger's Syndrome. If a family member has been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, or exhibits questionable behaviors, please check further, as ADD/ADHD can be a common misdiagnosis for Asperger's Syndrome, a high functioning Autistic spectrum disorder. For further information, please check this link. Local L.I. support is available: http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/