Designs Anew Houston is an award-winning accredited Kitchen and Bath Design Firm specializing in Easier Living (Universal Design), Accessible Design, Wellness Design, and Aging in Place.
Here at Designs AnewHouston, we specialize in design for all ages, abilities, and sizes to live independently and safely. We focus on making our designs ready and accessible so that you are able to utilize your major living spaces more conveniently and enjoyably for many years to come.
Turn your old, out of date kitchen into a beautiful and functional focal point of your home.
With the National Kitchen and Bath Association's (NKBA) Kitchen Guidelines in mind, Designs Anew Houston ensures that your new kitchen has ample landing spaces and clearances around appliances and counters for maximum efficiency and maneuverability for all the numerous functions that kitchens perform nowadays.
Let your bathroom become a soothing oasis where you can relax and forget all of your troubles.
Designs Anew Houston provides functional configuration of bathrooms for maximum ease of use; close convenient-to-reach storage; transferability to shower seat, tub, and toilet; and space for maneuverability and accessibility.
In addition to kitchens and baths, we also design more specialized projects such as built-ins, home offices, fireplaces, flooring, painting and lighting.
Through our sister company, Designs Anew Glass Art, we create unique fused glass and stained glass projects. Fused glass straight out of the kiln, is transformed into serving pieces, dishware, vessels, hanging panels, or a stand-alone piece of artwork to enrich your home's decor.
Barb Mueller is the President of Designs Anew Houston LLC, an interior design firm specializing in design for remodeling and new construction projects.
DAH strives to design healthy kitchens and baths maximizing their functionality, safety and beauty. Barb worked in the new home construction industry for over 13 years before starting her own firm.
Barb just helped us with a post-Hurricane Harvey remodel of our entire first floor and did a tremendous job. She was exceptionally professional to work with and was very understanding with our situation. She listened to our needs and offered wonderful guidance without being pushy or overbearing. It was truly a collaborative effort and helped ease what was a very stressful process. We are very very happy with her work and would highly recommend her services.
Melissa Taldykin
Barb is a talented, creative and meticulous professional. She designed our aging in place master bath, listened to our needs and created an outstanding plan. We highly recommend her.
Houzz User
I found Barb on Houzz in 2017 when my husband and I were planning a major remodel of kitchen end of our house. After living for 30 years in a house built in 1960, we had a good idea of changes we wanted – second sink, double oven, larger pantry, refrigerator drawer, garden window, and enlarge to include an island. We were in our late 60’s and had decided this would be our retirement home, so wanted a design that would allow us to “age in place.” We hired Barb to make sure we “got it right.” Barb’s Universal Design expertise helped ensure adequate and functional walking/working space. She identified a way to incorporate a walk-in pantry. Thanks to Barb’s suggestion, we installed a dev...
Enjoyingretirement
i met Barb a LONG time ago after i bought my house, time frame was in the early 2000's. The rooms were painted an inoffensive white, but, after awhile it was as boring as can be imagined. After a round of foundation work, the white looked more awful since the walls had been repaired. . I wanted to paint, but hadn't a CLUE as to where to start. My contractor (who was doing work on the house) had worked with Barb and recommended my calling her for some assistance. Best move i ever made: we used my love of the southwestern colors to start out in the living and dining rooms, and the rest just went from there. I even have ACCENT WALLS in the kitchen and living room. If not for Barb, i'm sure ...
elsa anzalone
Barb was our designer for a major kitchen remodel. She did an outstanding job. The design process was about seven months and the tear down and construction was four months. Throughout this time, Barb was consistently involved and guiding the process. She listened to what we wanted and responded accordingly. I love that she was honest with us about what would work and what would not. Our kitchen is gorgeous and I would highly recommend Barb for any project.
Houzz User
Barb just helped us with a post-Hurricane Harvey remodel of our entire first floor and did a tremendous job. She was exceptionally professional to work with and was very understanding with our situation. She listened to our needs and offered wonderful guidance without being pushy or overbearing. It was truly a collaborative effort and helped ease what was a very stressful process. We are very very happy with her work and would highly recommend her services.
Melissa Taldykin
Barb is a talented, creative and meticulous professional. She designed our aging in place master bath, listened to our needs and created an outstanding plan. We highly recommend her.
Houzz User
I found Barb on Houzz in 2017 when my husband and I were planning a major remodel of kitchen end of our house. After living for 30 years in a house built in 1960, we had a good idea of changes we wanted – second sink, double oven, larger pantry, refrigerator drawer, garden window, and enlarge to include an island. We were in our late 60’s and had decided this would be our retirement home, so wanted a design that would allow us to “age in place.” We hired Barb to make sure we “got it right.” Barb’s Universal Design expertise helped ensure adequate and functional walking/working space. She identified a way to incorporate a walk-in pantry. Thanks to Barb’s suggestion, we installed a dev...
Enjoyingretirement
i met Barb a LONG time ago after i bought my house, time frame was in the early 2000's. The rooms were painted an inoffensive white, but, after awhile it was as boring as can be imagined. After a round of foundation work, the white looked more awful since the walls had been repaired. . I wanted to paint, but hadn't a CLUE as to where to start. My contractor (who was doing work on the house) had worked with Barb and recommended my calling her for some assistance. Best move i ever made: we used my love of the southwestern colors to start out in the living and dining rooms, and the rest just went from there. I even have ACCENT WALLS in the kitchen and living room. If not for Barb, i'm sure ...
elsa anzalone
Barb was our designer for a major kitchen remodel. She did an outstanding job. The design process was about seven months and the tear down and construction was four months. Throughout this time, Barb was consistently involved and guiding the process. She listened to what we wanted and responded accordingly. I love that she was honest with us about what would work and what would not. Our kitchen is gorgeous and I would highly recommend Barb for any project.
Houzz User
Barb just helped us with a post-Hurricane Harvey remodel of our entire first floor and did a tremendous job. She was exceptionally professional to work with and was very understanding with our situation. She listened to our needs and offered wonderful guidance without being pushy or overbearing. It was truly a collaborative effort and helped ease what was a very stressful process. We are very very happy with her work and would highly recommend her services.
Melissa Taldykin