Company History
Dragonfly Designs has been in business for 6 ½ years. We have a retail store (which we have expanded three times) in downtown Tahoe City at the Cobblestone Center which also includes our business offices and exceptional in-house design library (where we have thousands of beautiful design materials and catalogues of furnishings, finishes and accessories).
Number of Employees
Our firm consists of seven designers and a business manager.
List of Clients
Corporate Projects:
Brockway Springs Resorts: design for proposed changes to The Tower public areas
Fidelity Title: office remodel
Sagan Design Group: remodel of architects’ offices
Hurricane Bay: surface material specification for spec homes (Contractor--Loverde Construction)
Tahoe Luxury Properties
East-West Network
Current Residential Projects:
6,000 square feet in Brockway Springs—new construction
Architect—Gary McKelvey
Contractor—Andreas Rickenbach
3 projects for one client -- 4,500 square feet in Squaw Valley; 8,000 square feet in Wailea, Hawaii—new construction, 2,000 square feet in Carmel
Hawaii Architect—Greg Bayliss AIA at Farrington Bayless Architects
Hawaii Contractor—Stephen King Construction
10,000 square feet in East Shore Lake Tahoe—new construction
Architect—Archidea
Construction Company—Tower Construction/Pete Burkett
Contractor—Quentin Barter of Barter Construction
4,000 square feet in Alpine Meadows--remodel
Contractor—Bruce Olson
Same client 2 projects – 4,500 square feet in Agate Bay and 5,000 square feet in Piedmont, California)
Contractor—Quentin Barter of Barter Construction (Tahoe)
3,000 square feet in Tahoe City -- remodel
Architect—Paul Fry
Contractor—Black Diamond Construction (Steve Funk)
Three-acre West Shore compound—new construction
Architect—Gary McKelvey
Contractor—Linkey Construction
Same client 2 projects -- 5,000 square foot penthouse suite at Northstar Village and 5,000 square foot home in Incline Village
7,000 square foot spec house in Incline Village
Owner/Builder/Designer—Pete Burkett
Contractor—Quentin Barter
5,000 square foot Dollar Point remodel
Architect: Rick Thompson of Sagan Design
Contractor: T.J. Glidden
2, 500 square foot mountain top cottage in Larkspur California
We regularly handle 20+ additional smaller projects at any given time.
Additionally, the architects and contractors we work with enjoy working with us to the extent that they often ask us to work on their own home. We’ve worked on personal projects for Pete Burkett, Rick Thompson, Bruce Olson, Andreas Rickenbach and Jim Baldwin.
Experience in our industry
With so many experienced designers here at Dragonfly Designs, we offer a wide range of backgrounds, styles and design sensibilities. Two of us have worked in Los Angeles and San Francisco on large corporate design projects such as Sharper Image, MCI and a 27,000 square foot assignment for a major advertising agency. We all have art backgrounds including degrees in graphic arts, architecture, textile design and museum curator-ship in addition to our interior design educations. We all draft, draw and work on AutoCAD.
We specialize in start-to-finish construction with particular strengths in kitchen, bathroom and lighting design. Our designers work in a wide range of styles. We currently have projects that span from ultra-contemporary in concrete and glass… to Old Tahoe 1920s lodge look… to French chalet style… to Arts and Crafts… and more. Our industry certifications include NCIDQ, ASID, CQRID and CCRE. Two of us are also Certified Interior Designers from the State of California – and two of us are experienced landscape designers, to boot.
We have many years of experience on our staff. While we do have two young designers, the rest of us are mature, seasoned pros.
Additionally, Debbie McAfee is our resident expert in finding special, hard-to-find items and antiques for our clients. Debbie puts together amazing collections. We have clients who collect 19th century Swiss Black Forest carved furnishings from the Alps, clients looking for original Arts and Crafts pieces from the turn of the century, clients who collect old pond boats from the 20s, antique French pottery, Plein Air Sierra oil paintings from the early 20th century, American furniture… and even Oriental antiques. Whatever the desire, Debbie has contacts across the U.S and abroad to help us locate it. Sue Pipal and Debbie also travel to Europe regularly on buying trips for the store and for clients.