About Gretchen
Gingham Girl Designs was featured in Detroit Home Magazine for the revolutionary work that Gingham Girl Designs preformed on an outdated 1970s colonial style house. Read it here!
Gingham Girl Designs will exceed your every expectation. Let us help you love your home again one statement piece at a time
Gretchen started sewing in college, repurposed her first piece of furniture shortly thereafter, and attended her first antique festival while pregnant with her first child. She now combines her love of all three and her eye for interior design to create Gingham Girl Designs.
Gretchen Diver's love for using statement pieces in her designs and finding and creating these pieces has earned her awards and landed her in the pages of Detroit home magazine more than once. As an alumnae of Michigan State University and the Fashion Institute of Technology, Gretchen has a diverse design background. She is launching this website to share her talents and products with a larger base of potential clients, customers, and fellow antique lovers.
Gretchen lives on a 10 acre farm in Clarkston, Michigan with her husband, 3 boys, 2 dogs, 4 horses, 3 goats, and 3 bunnies. Diver led the complete renovation of her farm house, and she was in charge of all remodeling and decoration as well. Her home serves as an inspiration to her daily work, and Gretchen has a continuous array of exciting projects taking place at any given time.
What people are saying about Gingham Girl Designs
“Gretchen did an amazing job utilizing our small rooms in our historical, cottage home, and we are completely thrilled with the results; we no longer feel crammed-she created much needed space, and was able to re-use many of our pieces of furniture. We only wish we had hired her years earlier-Thank you Gretchen!”
“Gretchen is fantastic to work with! She is creative, patient, knowledgeable, resourceful, and thinks out of the box to create an incredible style that is totally “you”. My husband and I lack artistic talent/design vision, so we really relied on Gretchen to help identify our style, determine our need, while working within our budget constraints. She really delivered! Her appreciation for old materials/furniture and her incredible talent of blending the old with the new made our home unique and truly “us” She created a transformation that not only looks amazing, but implemented layout changes that made our home much more functional.
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"As an extremely busy working mother of 4 kids, it was probably pretty obvious to admit my house ended up hopelessly outdated. When I finally decided to begin to update a few things, I was crazy lucky to have found Gretchen. What started as one room quickly grew to 6 rooms. Her unique style of decorating has included keeping some items, updating others with her special touch, and mixing in her fun finds. "
"Some rooms were complete overhauls, while others added her quick fixes to transform the room on a lower budget. Needless to say I would highly recommend Gretchen for any designing project you may have. When my house is complete I am going to miss the fun texts with items she has found on her adventures!"