Meet The Designers
Cate Ball
Cate is part of the amazing design team at Delight In Designs. Her years of experience include outdoor spaces, new kitchen design as well as working for the Central Michigan Hall Of Fame decorating committee.
She has an eye for antiques and loves mixing old treasures with new ones to create cozy personal spaces!
Leah Velzen
Leah is a graduate of the Western Michigan University Interior Design program. She started with us as a Design Assistant and is now rocking it in her new role. She loves all things design, including helping clients achieve their dream home to creating mood boards and space planning. Shopping is Leah’s favorite hobby and loves a good deal. When Leah isn’t at work, she enjoys nature walks, reading, shopping of course, and hanging out with friends and family!
Oliver McCarthy
​Oliver joins us as our Design Intern helping us to achieve an even better experience for our customers. He is currently attending Kendall College of Art and Design; he is paving his design career with a major in Furniture Design. Oliver is the recipient of many awards, his most recent is the Bienenstock Furniture design competition where he received second place in a nation-wide competition! He is currently serving as president of the Furniture club at Kendall. When not working, he still loves designing things such as future dream homes, furniture, and jewelry! Oliver loves traveling and learning about new places; he loves his family pets, Gary, Doug, and Henry!
Jessica Crosby
“A house is not a home until your story is attached to it” is Jessica’s mantra, she is passionate about truly knowing her clients, how they function in their space while sprinkling special touches of flair throughout her design. Being trained by the New York Art Institute has given Jessica the expertise to capture your style.
Jess founded Delight In Designs in 2019 with her daughter-in-law, Monica. Jess enjoys using her creativity whenever possible! Crosby serves on the Board of the Northeast Business Association as well as the Executive Board of Rockford Professionals, a Member of the Professional Women in Building of Grand Rapids, and a founding member of Build Up Women. She loves relaxing and spending time with her husband Jamie.
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We are where West Michigan turns to make their house a home. Whether shopping our boutique showroom for a new piece for your mantle, working with our interior designers to refresh a room, or partnering with us for a total daydream-to-construction renovation, let us hear your vision of what would make it completely yours. We make interior design feel like working with a friend, and make sure you are left feeling… at home.
Jennifer Jarvis
Jennifer spent her first 33 career years as an elementary school teacher in lovely South Haven, MI. She loves a good shopping trip, hunting for bargains and beautiful design (Just the type of buyer you want on your side, heh?!). As a buyer for Delight in Designs, she is always looking out for your best interest for price points and interior design. In her spare time, she enjoys doing mission work with her husband Eric, her son, and her two Haitian daughters.​
Budzynski Family
Tammy Jo has been one of Grand Rapids Top realtors for almost 22 years. Max worked at Spectrum Health for 15 years and a few years ago, chose to help support his wife in her career. But can now be found almost every day working on restoring the house with Tammy Jo at his side, on the weekends. But life does not stop there, with two very active girls Addison (age 9) and Natalie (age 6) life is busy.
So we asked them, in what seems to be the hottest question of the day, “Why did you buy this house?” Their response, “To save it from being destroyed by developers. It is such a special place, while working on it, we found out that it can no longer be locked behind a gate by one family. It was time to wake it back up and to share it.”
To read the full story about, how TJmax became the owners, please go to https://www.thevanderjagt.com/if-i-wasnt-the-listing-agent-we-would-not-have-bought-the-house