About Us

Our goal is to make your home look put together while realistically serving the daily needs of your families and guests. For many of us, we don’t have the capacity to do an entire redesign but we do want to breathe new life into our homes. With a fresh set of eyes, we will uncover solutions and decorating choices that can transform any space.

Our expertise is a blend of home decor, interior styling, and professional organization. It is our job to ‘get’ your style and we will make recommendations based on what you like. Our role is to offer different ideas and solutions to inspire your project and accomplish your goals.

We lean into your aesthetic and help create cohesion without starting from scratch. We love simple, balanced, and unfussy design choices no matter your style. The majority of our spaces are light and warm, but we also love a fun pop of color or a statement wallpaper to add some personality. We tend to gravitate towards transitional, california coastal, new colonial, and scandinavian interiors but we’ve partnered with clients who like traditional, mid-century modern, modern farmhouse, urban boho, and global glam, too.

Meet Molly

Molly has always loved interior decorating and design. Growing up, she’d spend her free time flipping through Architectural Digest, visiting home furnishing stores, and making floor plans on her very own CAD program.

After college, she began her career as a HR professional in financial services, but her love for interiors never diminished. She has several years of experience redesigning her own homes and has enjoyed helping friends with their projects. It was also through several moves that she realized how important minimizing ‘stuff’ was to creating an inviting, stress-free home. In 2021, she decided to follow her passion and started A Pretty Neat Place.

Molly has a BA from the University of New Hampshire. She is certified with Certified Interior Decorator (CID) and is an active member of the Interior Design Society (IDS). Molly lives in Natick with her husband and two boys.

Q & A

Design trend I’m into

I'm glad there's an emphasis on making homes feel as cozy as possible; I personally don't like anything too formal. I love soft textures, plush rugs, neutrals, and no-frills furniture. But I do love unexpected pops of color or flair. I’m thrilled wallpaper is being used more throughout the home, not just in powder rooms (but that’s a great place to dip your toe into wallpaper!).

Top decorating tips

1.) Less is always more. Owning a ton of stuff or having a lot going on in a room is overwhelming - I’m definitely not a maximalist. I think it takes restraint to not fill every space or wall and it looks that much more polished.

2.) Furniture placement can make a huge difference. The room’s scale should dictate where to place things, and then it should also feel like the room has good flow. A lot of folks default to pushing furniture against the wall and sometimes that just makes the room feel cavernous or unbalanced.

3) When in doubt, paint a room white. It’s a classic choice that can lend itself to any accent colors. It may feel boring but it’s better than picking a very trendy color that you won’t love 5 years from now.

Favorite place to buy affordable furniture

I love Pottery Barn, Serena & Lily, Restoration Hardware, Crate and Barrel, West Elm, and Room and Board for furniture. I also like One Kings Lane, H&M Home, Zara Home, Magnolia Home, & Project Nursery for reasonably priced decor pieces. If you have the time, I also highly recommend checking out the Brimfield Fair for one-of-a-kind pieces.

Where I get ideas and inspiration

I follow Studio McGee, Elements of Style, Scout & Nimble, Marie Flanigan Interiors, Coastal Interiors, Park and Oak Design, Robin Gannon Interiors, and the Home Edit to name a few. And truly, I'm inspired by my clients. It is always fun working with different styles; it helps me grow and stretch my design skills.

Quote I live by

"Begin anywhere." I had a print of this quote in my cubicle for years, but it seems more applicable now that I help people transform their homes for a living. It is easy to have analysis paralysis but as long as you break the project into manageable chunks, you can do it!

Fun Fact

I worked for the author of The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande, at his innovation lab for several years. What I love about the book is that it encourages simple solutions to reduce human error. When applied to organizing homes, keeping solutions simple and increasing communication with all family members can really make a huge difference. As he says, “Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is.”