About Us
With our grounded, team-led approach, we believe the most successful homes are shaped through thoughtful collaboration and careful attention to every layer. From layout and flow to sightlines and architectural integration, we respect traditional design principles and architectural history. Our modern heritage aesthetic blends natural materials with historically inspired details and modern functionality.
Based in the Berkshires, Meadow House is a full service interior design studio that pairs meticulous, full-service design execution with a calm and approachable studio presence.
Carly Allen grew up in the design & build industry, spending summers poring over blueprints and weekends hunting antiques through small New England towns. That early immersion shaped a clear point of view and eventually led to the founding of Meadow House, a full-service luxury interior design studio and home furnishings shop based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
As Founder and Creative Director, Carly leads the vision, standards, and client experience for the studio, shaping the overall direction of each project with a thoughtful, highly involved perspective. Alongside her, Meadow House’s skilled team of designers carries that vision through development, coordination, and installation with careful attention to detail.
Carly’s work and studio have been featured in Architectural Digest, The Boston Globe, and leading East Coast design publications.
Outside the studio, you’ll likely find Carly antiquing, enjoying a latte at Guido's Fresh Marketplace, or exploring the Berkshires with her yellow lab, Meatball.
Carly Allen
FOUNDER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Angie built her career at one of Greenwich's top luxury interior design studios before expanding her expertise in CAD at an architecture firm. Technically gifted and deeply attuned to New England design, she brings a rare combination of precision and warmth to every project — guiding clients through a seamless process from first sketch to finished room. When she's not designing, Angie is kept busy by her husband and three daughters.
TEAM LEAD
Angie Gullen
Serena came to Meadow House first as an intern while studying interior design at URI — where she also captained the women's hockey team — and returned after graduation with exactly the grit and talent we'd hoped she would. She specializes in renovations and new construction, where her instinct for transitional design and natural ease with contractors and trades brings every project together without a seam. A Berkshire native, Serena lives in Sheffield and coaches the Rattlers, a local youth hockey team.
TEAM LEAD
Serena Batacchi
Laura holds a Bachelor's in Music from the University of Hartford and a Master's from Yale — and it turns out that the same mind that masters a symphony is perfectly suited to running a design studio. From billing to scheduling, Laura keeps the Meadow House operation humming and makes the administrative side of every project feel effortless for clients. At home, Laura is kept on her toes by her husband, two daughters, and a dog.
Operations Manager
Laura Fleury
With a background in Sustainable Community Development from UMass Amherst and a Master's in Public Policy from Columbia, Shambhavi brings serious infrastructure thinking to the most complex job on the team. Every order, lead time, shipment, and delivery is tracked and managed with an ease that only a true Virgo could pull off. She works remotely from New York City. In her free time, Shambhavi fosters dogs, which pretty much says everything you need to know about her.