Interior Design Services in Yakima, WA

Yakima is one of Central Washington’s most vibrant and diverse cities — a place with deep agricultural roots, a world-class wine country on its doorstep, and a growing community of homeowners who care about how their spaces look and feel. Whether you own a historic home in the Yakima Valley, a newer build in the surrounding neighborhoods, or a wine country property in the foothills, D. Marie Interiors brings professional, personalized design services to Yakima and the surrounding region. Based in Ellensburg, we’re your local Central Washington designers — and we’d love to work on your home.

Why Yakima Is a Distinctive Design Market

Yakima has a design context that’s genuinely its own. The Yakima Valley is one of the sunniest places in Washington — over 300 days of sun a year — which means light behaves very differently here than in most of the state. Palettes that feel warm and grounded in Seattle can feel washed out under Yakima’s intense summer light. Materials that work beautifully in the mild west-side climate need to perform across Yakima’s hot summers and cold winters. And the architectural variety here — from Victorian-era homes in the historic district to mid-century ranchers to contemporary new construction — means every project requires a design approach tailored to the specific home.

Good Central Washington interior design starts with understanding the region. We know Yakima well — its neighborhoods, its character, and what makes its homes distinctive — and that local knowledge shapes every project we take on here.

Interior Design Services We Offer in Yakima

Residential interior design

From full-home redesigns to single-room transformations, our residential interior design services are built around how you actually live. We start with a real conversation about your lifestyle, your aesthetic preferences, and your goals for the space — and we build a design that serves all of those things, not just the ones that photograph well. Whether your home is a century-old craftsman near downtown Yakima, a sprawling ranch property in Selah, or a new build in Union Gap, we bring the same care and attention to every project.

Kitchen remodels

Yakima has a genuine food culture — shaped by its agricultural heritage, its wine country, and a community that knows how to cook and entertain. Kitchens here need to perform at a high level. That means thinking carefully about workflow and prep space, storage and organization, lighting that works for both cooking and atmosphere, and finishes that hold up to real use without looking institutional. Our approach to kitchen and bath design covers what a properly executed remodel actually involves — most homeowners are surprised by how much professional judgment goes into getting it right.

Bathroom renovations

Yakima has an abundance of older homes with beautiful bones and bathrooms that haven’t kept pace with the rest of the house. Bathroom renovations in these properties require someone who understands how to work within existing constraints — rough-in dimensions, structural conditions, plumbing locations — while creating something that feels fresh, functional, and intentional. We love these projects. The combination of architectural character and a blank-slate design brief is one of the most satisfying contexts we work in.

Space planning

Many Yakima homes — particularly the open-plan newer builds on the valley floor and in the surrounding hillside neighborhoods — have floor plans that look great on paper and present real challenges in practice. A great room that needs to function as a living space, a dining room, and a kitchen all at once requires deliberate zone planning before any furniture is purchased. Space planning resolves this on paper first, establishing traffic flow, conversation groupings, and the visual relationships between spaces in a way that makes the finished room feel intentional rather than assembled.

Whole-home furnishing

For homeowners who are starting from scratch — whether in a newly purchased property or after a significant renovation — whole-home furnishing projects pull everything together as a coordinated system. Furniture, rugs, lighting, window treatments, art, and accessories all selected to work together, sourced through our trade relationships, and installed so the home is finished when you walk in the door. Browse our completed project portfolio to see what this looks like in practice.

The Yakima Wine Country Home

One of Yakima’s most exciting design contexts is the wine country property — whether that’s a full-time residence on a vineyard estate, a weekend retreat in the foothills near Naches or Tieton, or a home in one of the valley’s established rural neighborhoods. These properties have a character that rewards design rooted in the landscape: warm natural materials, earthy palettes that reference the soil and the vines, spaces that open generously to the outdoors, and kitchens that are genuinely built for cooking and entertaining at a level that matches the setting.

We have experience with wine country properties across the region — including work in the Cle Elum and Roslyn area and throughout the Kittitas Valley — and we bring that experience to Yakima Valley properties where the brief calls for it.

Historic Homes in the Yakima Valley

Yakima’s historic neighborhoods — including the established areas near downtown, the West Valley foothills, and the older residential streets of Selah and Moxee — contain some of the most architecturally interesting homes in Central Washington. Craftsman bungalows, Victorian-era properties, mid-century moderns, and Spanish Colonial Revival homes all have distinct architectural languages that reward designers who understand how to honor them.

Renovating or furnishing a historic home isn’t just about picking finishes that look good. It’s about understanding what the architecture is saying and making design decisions that respond to it — preserving what’s worth preserving, updating what needs updating, and creating spaces that feel like they belong to the home rather than being imposed on it. This is some of our favorite work.

Why Work With D. Marie Interiors in Yakima

Genuinely local

We’re based in Ellensburg, about 40 minutes north of Yakima on I-82. That proximity means we can be on-site for consultations, walkthroughs, and installation days without the travel costs or scheduling friction that come with engaging a firm from Seattle or the Tri-Cities. We’re Central Washington designers — Yakima is part of our home territory, and we know it well. Learn more about Renee and the D. Marie story.

A process built around your project

We don’t have a signature look or a house style that we apply to every project. We have a process — discovery, concept development, specification, sourcing, installation — and within that process, the design direction comes entirely from you: your home, your lifestyle, your aesthetic preferences, and your goals. The result is a space that feels personal rather than professionally generic.

Trade access and real value

Through our trade relationships we have access to furniture vendors, workrooms, and product lines that aren’t available at retail. That access frequently means better quality and better pricing than what’s available through consumer channels — and it always means a wider range of options than what you’d find at any single showroom or retailer. It also means we can get things resolved when something goes wrong, which in any design project, eventually something does.

Part of a regional network

D. Marie Interiors serves clients across Central Washington — from Yakima north through the Kittitas Valley to Ellensburg, east to the Columbia Basin, and west to Cle Elum, Roslyn, and Suncadia. That regional presence means we have established contractor and trade relationships across the area, and we bring the full benefit of that network to every Yakima project we take on.

Getting Started

The first step is a conversation. We’ll talk through your home, your project, your timeline, and your goals — and give you an honest picture of what a realistic path forward looks like, including investment. There’s no pressure and no commitment from an initial consultation. It’s simply a chance to figure out whether we’re the right fit for what you’re trying to accomplish in your Yakima home.

Most clients come to us at one of two moments: right after purchasing or renovating a home, when everything is possible and nothing is decided yet — or after living with a space that’s never quite felt right and finally deciding to do something about it. Both are good starting points. We’re happy to work from either.