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ABOUT SMART DESIGN FINE LIVING
A Southern California design studio creating elevated spaces for hotels, resorts, golf courses, businesses, and homes.
Smart Design Fine Living creates spaces with presence, purpose, and a finished sense of beauty. We serve hospitality and commercial clients who want more than decoration—they want thoughtful design, flexible solutions, and spaces that feel intentional from the first impression to the final detail.
Through Patio Crush, we work with hotels, resorts, golf courses, event venues, and hospitality properties to create beautiful, guest-ready outdoor spaces. From our signature lounge collections and event rentals to cushion refreshes and seasonal hospitality programs, we offer flexible ways to keep outdoor spaces current, elevated, and ready for every season and occasion.
Our work also extends to commercial and residential interior design and home staging, bringing the same thoughtful eye for beauty, function, and finished detail to every space we touch.
Based in Southern California and serving projects throughout California, our work is rooted in one aim: to find the highest level of beauty a space can hold—and bring it forward.
FOUNDER + CREATIVE DIRECTION
Meet Dee Taylor
Dee Taylor is the founder and creative force behind Smart Design Fine Living. With more than 25 years of experience across hospitality, commercial design, high-profile productions, trade shows, home staging, and residential spaces, Dee brings a trained eye and clear direction to every project.
Her work includes:
- Grammy Awards
- Nintendo of America
- Sony Pictures
- NCIS
- Black Girls Rock
- Soul Train Awards
- Presidential Debate
- World Dog Awards
- More than 100 trade shows
WHAT WE DO
Elevated design for hospitality, commercial spaces, events, and homes.
We create beautiful, guest-ready spaces for hotels and resorts, provide Patio Crush lounge collections for golf courses and special events, design polished commercial and residential spaces, and prepare homes to sell beautifully.
HOSPITALITY REFRESH
Cushion refresh programs, designer pillows, and seasonal updates created for hotels, resorts, golf clubs, and hospitality properties throughout Southern California.
Hospitality Refresh
Patio cushion refresh programs, outdoor furniture, and commercial design services created specifically for hotels, resorts, golf clubs, and hospitality properties across Southern California.
LUXURY LOUNGE SUBSCRIPTIONS
A subscription-based hospitality refresh program designed to keep hotel and resort outdoor spaces looking beautiful, current, and guest-ready year-round. Through scheduled seasonal refreshes, we update cushions, designer pillows, and finishing touches—giving your property a fresh new look without replacing your existing furniture.
Commercial Design
Refined design direction for offices, reception areas, conference rooms, executive spaces, hospitality-inspired environments, and client-facing business interiors.
Residential Interior Design
Interior design for homes that need beauty, function, comfort, and a finished look that feels personal and elevated.
Home Staging
Strategic staging that helps buyers connect emotionally with a property and see the lifestyle the home can offer.
OUR STANDARD
Fresh spaces. Thoughtful design. Exceptional results.
We believe great design should do more than look beautiful—it should transform the way a space feels, functions, and performs. From hospitality and outdoor environments to commercial spaces and select residential projects, we bring fresh ideas, thoughtful solutions, and elevated design to every space we touch.
