ABOUT OUR STUDIO
Susan Thiel Design is a full-service design studio in San Clemente, California. We design homes from concept to completion around Southern California. Having a solid reputation for serving our clients with a concierge approach to design. We are consistently thinking outside the box and always collaborating, creating, and growing in design.
We ensure success through educated design knowledge and valuable experience. Designing and Specifying cabinetry, tile, plumbing fixtures, appliances, hardware, lighting, furniture, window treatments, and art. In addition, we customize unique lighting and furnishings according to the client’s vision and needs.
We have designed more than 100projects in luxury neighborhoods throughout Southern California. Our projects range in size from 2,000 square ft to 23,000 square ft. Paralleling our wonderful client relationships, we also serve builders and architects developing luxury residences and commercial properties.
ABOUT SUSAN THIEL
Susan Thiel has always had a curiosity and love of design and adventure. After spending most of her career working for a Fortune 100 company, she followed her passion and deep love of design and launched Susan Thiel Design in 2008.
Growing up in both Chicago and San Francisco, Susan currently resides in Dana Point, CA. Susan is a second-generation designer. She grew up watching her award-winning Designer mother build numerous homes. And, just like her mother, Susan is also an award-winning Designer and General Contractor.
Susan has enjoyed traveling the world with her creative curiosity. She spent four weeks at sea and a month hiking the Washington Forest with Outward Bound. Through these adventures, she has honed her incredible skill of detail, color, and materials.
TESTIMONIALS
Houzz User
We have used Susan for three projects and have been thrilled with the results every time. She manages to take ideas from my husband and I, and translate it into something beautiful and functional. Having her plan everything from kitchens and baths, to space planning a whole house of furniture makes remodeling so much easier. Susan and her team are great to work with, highly recommend!Read More
Terry Corwin
Susan was so great to work with on our total remodel in Dana Point, CA. She worked flawlessly with the contractor and me from creating a brand new floor plan, to choosing finishes, and finally the furniture and fixtures. Most of the heavy lifting was done during the pandemic when the supply chain issues were at their worst, but Susan knew great tricks and tip of the trade to get everything we wanted when we needed it. No easy task! She is very knowledgable with not just design but architecture which was helpful so many times during the long process. Susan was always always always on time for any meeting and super quick in responding to questions or problems along the way. I would definitely not only recommend her but would love to work with her myself on a new project!Read More
ELISABETTA MARIOTTI Italian Interiors
Getting to know Susan Thiel and working for her over several years was a great learning experience for me as an interior designer. She generously shared her amazing design talent and knowledge and was a pleasure to work with at all times. Susan consistently offered me full support and great encouragement. She really went above and beyond to create an engaging work environment while teaching me the essentials of the interior design profession. She has an intuitive and artistic sense of how to use space, and she magically transforms common environments into chic and luxurious spaces. I especially admired her team-working skills while guiding and managing contractors involved into the design process for a seamless execution. I was fortunate to have had such a phenomenal mentor, and now as colleague, I would recommend Susan to anyone without hesitation!Read More
Houzz User
We hired Susan to design our whole home remodel. She also worked with the general contractor throughout the entire project to make sure the finished product was as designed. We can’t say enough good things about Susan and her work. We absolutely love our remodeled home. Susan and the GC worked so well together to ensure the whole process went smoothly even as challenges and changes arose. We fully plan to use Susan again in the future.Read More
James David Custom Homes
We've had an opportunity to work with Susan on multiple jobs. Not only is she detail oriented and readily available to her clients and building team she also understands the construction process and is great with keeping the project on track.
She is wonderful to work with and we look forward to collaborating with her in the future.Read More
