Illinois’s Top Rated Local® Interior Designers Award Winner: Rae Duncan Interior Design

Top Rated Local® is pleased to announce that Rae Duncan Interior Design is a two-time 2019 award winner in Illinois!

For all of your residential and commercial interior design needs in Chicago, there’s no better company to work with than Rae Duncan Interior Design.

Rae Duncan Interior Design has received dozens of reviews on five verified sites with a perfect average rating of 5.00 stars, earning them an impeccable Rating Score™ of 100.00 and two 2019 Top Rated Local awards for being ranked among the top 100 businesses and the number one interior designer in all of Illinois!

Here’s just one of their many five-star reviews:

“Rae Duncan Interior Design team has an amazing eye and the ability to see what’s truly possible in a space, and transform it. They are true professional and an amazing resource to anyone remodeling or updating their space. Our indoor playground space looks amazing, and everyone loves it.” – Monika M.

Not Your Average Interior Design Firm

We wanted to learn more about this two-time award winner and how they managed to build such an impressive online reputation, so we took a few minutes to talk with Rae Duncan herself, the CEO of Rae Duncan Interior Design.

The first thing we wanted to know was what makes Rae Duncan Interior Design a one-of-a-kind interior design firm in Illinois. Here’s what Rae had to say:

“A lot of what makes us different is that I don’t have one style that I do or that my team does. We always say that we take the client’s taste, and then we raise the design to another level. A lot of designers will do the same aesthetic over and over and over. While we may do similar aesthetics again and again, we do a lot of different stuff. We do crazy innovation rooms, nail salons, fancy man caves and transitional homes. We can do anything. We never reuse the same items. What we want is for people to have a space that is original and unique, and that is functional for them that makes them feel good. I think that raises their whole experience in their home.”

We also asked Rae what their mission is at Rae Duncan Interior Design and how they work to make the world a better place. Here’s her response:

“Our statement is, ‘We’re a team of designers who use our imagination and technical skills to improve the way that people live, work and play.’ We work where we live. We play where we work.

Rae also went on to tell us a little bit about the Rae Duncan Interior Design logo, which is a microscopic picture of human tissue:

“interior design is really about biology, and it’s really about how we live. It’s about me figuring out how we can enhance people’s lives aesthetically and beautifully, or it might be enhancing people’s lives because of function and convenience. Either way, we enhance every aspect of what most people do in life, which is live, work and play.”

Building Success Through Good Resources, Good Contractors and Great People

Rae attributes Rae Duncan Interior Design’s strong online reputation to their very good resources, their very good contractors and the great people they work with, as well as to the fact that they are ethical and transparent. Rae added:

“In the end, no matter what job it is, no matter who it’s with and no matter what the cost of the job is, we make sure that everything is absolutely perfect. I want my clients to go out and tell everyone they know that they had a great experience with us.”

Rae shared with us that her dedication to making her clients happy is so fierce that she’ll even spend her own money to redo work when necessary.

Outside of building a powerful online reputation, Rae Duncan Interior Design has gotten their name out there by pushing the envelope, day in and day out.

Every business owner wants to build the kind of online reputation Rae Duncan Interior Design has. When we asked Rae what advice she has for those business owners, she said:

“Everything about your own business can be really, really, really hard. It’s really hard to start; it’s really to find those great creative minds —the good people — that support your business. …I guess what you need the most as an entrepreneur is persistence. You need to just keep pushing, and you can’t give up. …You have to believe in yourself and believe in what you’re doing. You keep pushing and pushing, and if it doesn’t work, then you need to try harder… You’re always learning and always changing, and you’re always pushing and pushing. You can’t get tired. You have to keep pushing for the next best thing…”


Congratulations to the team at Rae Duncan Interior Design for being a 2019 Top Rated Local award winner, and thank you so much, Rae, for taking the time to speak with us!

We highly recommend Rae Duncan Interior Design in Chicago. Visit their website today!

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