10/18/2026
Hello to all the new faces around here 🤍 I like to reintroduce myself every once in a while, so HELLO.
I’m Claudia Leonard Smith, founder of Claudia Leonard Interiors ; designer, business owner, chronic over-thinker of panel mouldings and door casings, and believer that everything looks better with more coffee table books.
Fun fact: I actually majored in Finance & Accounting. Somewhere early along the way, I traded spreadsheets for swatches and decided to pursue the career I’d wanted my entire life.
I grew up watching my parents renovate and build a home, so design was always part of my world. After college, I worked for some pretty incredible design firms in NYC while earning my design certifications, learning the business, and eventually deciding it was time to open my own doors 6 year ago. Design became my entire world.
My style is timeless, collected, clean but charming. A little modern, a little traditional, colorful when it calls for it, quiet when it doesn’t. No project is ever the same.
Today, Claudia Leonard Interiors takes on full-service projects throughout Charleston, the Tri-State area, and occasionally wherever the wind (or a very good client) blows me.
I love people. I love business. I LOVE design. And I’m wildly passionate about this industry and, perhaps most of all, the relationships that make it all work. My clients tend to become family, my work tends to consume my brain 24/7, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
And when I’m not working, you’ll probably find me running along the Lowcountry marshes, working out outside, spending time with my family, or finding literally any excuse to hop on a plane to NYC. It’s home, it’s where my roots are, and luckily, I can usually find a client meeting to justify the trip.
So, if you’re new here, welcome! 🤍 Stick around for sneak peeks of our projects, the behind-the-scenes chaos, the business of design, and probably an unnecessary amount of tile layouts.
- Claudia 🤍
