Nicolette Toussaint's Comfort and Joy Home Design

Nicolette Toussaint is a certified green remodeling consultant and interior designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The design philosophy of her firm, Comfort and Joy Interior Design, is summed up by the phrase "sustainable style."

Sustainability means choosing earth-friendly materials, of course, but most importantly, it means creating homes of lasting beauty and comfort. To create homes that last, that provide value on your life's biggest investment, their design also must include anticipate the human aspects of sustainability - health, growth, aging, social relationships, and emotional well-being.

Let Nicolette be your guide to a beautiful transformation, making your home, condo, TIC, or apartment a place of comfort and joy, whatever your age or physical ability.

Comfort and Joy's Services

• Color consultation
• Space planning
• Furniture selection
• Layout for small spaces
• Closet design
• Remodeling plans
• Redesign to cut clutter, improve movement, reduce noise, and enhance privacy
• Thermal comfort/energy saving consultation
• Design for access and health
• Layout for walkers, wheelchairs, fall prevention
• Reduced mobility, single room or one-floor layouts
• Low-vision design
• Hearing loss
• Allergies, toxics

Featured Project: Jane's Mediterranean Colors The photos and pottery from Jane's travels reveal her love of blue. She wanted to feature a deep blue in her ocean-front condo, but outside the tropics, blue is devilishly hard to use in interiors. The blues in Jane's furnishings looked chilly, particularly when the fog rolled in. I suggested a warm gold for Jane’s living room. It’s a color often seen in the Mediterranean, where it is paired with blue and orange. This palette is a favorite of the Provencal region of France. Read full story here...	Featured Project: Accessible Kitchen Your average kitchen is an obstacle course for someone who uses a wheelchair. That's why I recently asked noted psychologist, professor and disability activist Dr. Rhoda Olkin to review the plans I had done for a wheelchair accessible kitchen. Rhoda's comment, “It’s rare to find a designer who really understands the barriers and is able to see creatively how to erase them. To do it with the beauty of the design that Nicolette has created is amazing." Read the full story here...	Featured Project: Beautiful and Hypoallegenic This looks like a nice but unremarkable room - and that's what's so remarkable about it. It's the designer's own home, and this is a hypo-allergenic living room, designed to be beautiful and hospitable to people, while being quite inhospitable to dustmites. When my doctor told me that I was going to have to live in a hypo-allergenic environment, I pictured a hospital room. And I hated the idea! But a room without carpets, curtains, and cloth upholstery can be gorgeous - a real breath of fresh air, as this photo proves. Read full story here...