Melissa Kradas, Allied Member ASID
After a successful 12-year career as a management consultant, culminating in the creation of the first teaching nursing home in Connecticut, Melissa Kradas returned to school to pursue her first love, interior design.
Subsequent experience in kitchen design, commercial design, and retail home furnishings prompted Melissa to open her own full-service decorating firm in 1983, and an interactive kitchen showroom in 2004. The name of the firm, Personal Style LLC, reflected her philosophy that interior design should reflect each client’s unique personality.
For over 20 years, Personal Style LLC offered full residential and office design services in Connecticut. In addition to the creation of innovative and dramatic residential interiors, Melissa and her staff specialized in kitchens & baths, custom cabinetry, life-care facilities, aging in the home, and award-winning hair salons.
In addition to being the owner and principal designer of Personal Style, LLC, Melissa wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column, Designer to the Rescue; taught two interior design courses; and lectured throughout Connecticut.Melissa’s education includes graduating magna cum laude with Distinction in German from Connecticut College, graduate studies in Organizational Psychology at the University of New Haven, and certification in Interior Design from Paier College of Art, in Hamden, CT.
Melissa is a veteran of 7 designer showhouses, and her work has been published in: the Ultimate Decorating Book, UrbanStyle, Decorator Show Houses, and Today’s Salon. In addition to being a kitchen and bath designer, she has also been a dealer for Rich Maid Kabinetry. Melissa is also an allied member of the American Society of Interior Designers.
Melissa has recently relocated to the South Shore of Massachusetts...and the internet.
