Judy Sheridan

Judy Sheridan, ASID, CID, Author

Philosophy

An elegant life is planned, like the design of an interior.  I plan for my clients:  how to achieve style and substance in their lives.  The interiors I design reflect the desires of my clients and evolve into beautiful, comforting places to live.

I love knowing that by creating a refined, comfortable environment for someone, I have been able to reshape his or her lifestyle.  In a way, it’s like giving someone a new life.  This is my fulfillment and is a reward unto itself.

What keeps me challenged is the sense of responsibility and obligation that I feel toward my clients. Interior Design is a profession that selected me and I am very proud to be an Interior Designer.

Bio

While still in high school, she lay awake at night mentally re-doing her mother’s house and on weekends would secretly negotiate switching her siblings’ bedrooms—redecorating them on the spot. But it wasn’t until after a 15-year career as an actress that Judy Sheridan realized all the while she really belonged in the field of Interior Design.

She learned to design by taking night courses at the New York School of Interior Design, attending special design courses in England and France, going to design lectures and seminars, and working for other designers. “This is one profession where on-the-job training really counts and is your best teacher.” In 1981 she started her own business, Sheridan Interiors, Inc. in New York City, a prestigious design firm where she applies decorating flair and space management expertise to residential and commercial projects alike.

As a designer/actress she has shared her knowledge of what looks fabulous and how to create it with New York television audiences as the Home Decorating Expert on “Saturday Morning Live”, and has made appearances on “Haven”, “Our Home”, “Home Matters” and the “Phil Donahue Show”.

Although Judy has stepped out of the bright lights of show business, she insists that designing for a client is just like producing a Broadway show, right down to ‘opening night’. “I have great ideas, but I don’t just create a set design and place someone in it as if they were on center stage. I know that my client, coming through the door, expects this design project to be home, not a stage setting.”

Turning her talents to writing, Judy authored two books, Winning Windows and Instant Décor, for Park Lane Press, a division of Random House, published in 1996. Her latest book, How To Work With An Interior Designer”, for Gibbs Smith, Publisher, was published in June 2008. Most recently, she finished her term as the ’06-‘07 President of the ASID New York Metropolitan Chapter, serves on the Chapter’s Programs and Events Committee, the Events Committee for The American Friends of Attingham, and continues as a board member of the Designers Lighting Forum/New York.

“To create a lifestyle for someone, and thereby, change how they feel about themselves when they wake up in the morning and look around — this is the magic of Interior Design and the reason I am an Interior Designer.”