Newport Barn

Janel Flanigan

Janel Flanigan has always had a passion for design. Long before Bella Home & Garden Design, there was an obsession with making beds, stacks of interior design magazines, and a college dorm room designed to be the place everyone wanted to gather—comfortable, cozy, and complete with an impossibly fluffy bed raised on old-fashioned milk crates for a little extra height and a lot more storage.

Design continued to find its way into every part of Janel’s life. She and her husband loved buying, renovating, and selling homes, and Janel naturally became the friend everyone called with “just one quick design question.” One question inevitably became two, then ten, until her husband finally said, “I think you need to start getting paid for your time and talent.”

And so, Bella Home & Garden Design was born.

Fifteen years and more projects than she can count later, Janel still approaches design with the same enthusiasm—creating homes that are beautiful, comfortable, personal, and meant to be lived in. Along the way, many clients have become more like family.

“I am going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.”— Elsie de Wolfe