Wellington The Magazine – September 2016
Jason Lynn Of Decorators Unlimited Helps Clients Make Their Dreams Come True
Story by Julie Unger • Photos by Daniel Newcomb/Architectural Photography
Jason Lynn knows how to make any space luxurious. As vice president and partner at the premier luxury design firm Decorators Unlimited, Lynn lends his expertise to projects of all scopes and sizes.
Lynn’s path to interior design is unique. He is a former rescue swimmer with the United States Coast Guard.
“I’ve had a weird turn of events, going from a rescue swimmer to an interior designer, that’s for sure, but I enjoy what I do,” he said. “I’m very blessed to work with my teammates and designers here, and great architects and builders all around the globe.”
The transition happened almost by chance. Lynn started working at a home improvement store, in the warehouse and delivery department, after his time in the military.
“I actually started delivering furniture, vanities, countertops, kitchens and baths, and learned the industry from the ground floor up,” he recalled. “I was in night school, going for a business degree, and changed my degree to interior design.”
He learned to hone his skills at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich.
“My father was in the fashion world, and my mother was in the art world,” he said. “I think there was something lodged in my thought process of how to be creative and still be good at it.”
Lynn has now been in the industry for 17 years and has worked in Michigan, Chicago and here in South Florida.
Eight years ago, Lynn joined Decorators Unlimited with Bob Martin, the original founder, and is now vice president and partner of a firm that has been featured in magazines such as Florida Design and Architectural Digest.
“I’m able to listen and help create people’s dream homes,” Lynn said. “It’s really amazing that they entrust in our firm and myself to actually have the ability to transform the vision that’s in their head into a place that they love and rest their head every day. That’s an amazing blessing.”
Embarking on his interior design journey has proven to be the right path for Lynn.
“Every day I wake up, and I am so thankful and so blessed that I am able to do what I love, and that’s hard to say in this day and age,” he said.
One of the things that makes Decorators Unlimited unique, he explained, is the network of talent that comes together toward a common goal.
“It’s a collaboration of hardworking individuals who have one common goal, to create amazing projects that clients, builders, developers and people love all over the world,” Lynn said. “It’s one of the hardest-working, most talented group of individuals that I’ve ever been part of.”
The firm’s projects span from Florida to the Cayman Islands and across the globe. Some of Lynn’s favorite projects include a home for the Cumber family on Grand Cayman and The Crystal in West Palm Beach, a boutique condominium unit.
“One of my most recent and favorite projects would be the El Milagro project in Wellington and the Fischer residence,” he said, noting that the Fischer residence is in the Palm Beach Polo Golf & Country Club.
Those projects are some of his favorites for a variety of reasons.
“It’s a collaboration of having great clients, a good architect, a great builder, and the free mind to design and create anything you want that the client’s going to fall in love with,” he explained. “It’s like having a blank canvas of art, and you have every color of the rainbow imaginable to do it.”
Being able to transform a space into something the client truly loves and enjoys is special and rewarding for Lynn.
“When a client can hand you a piece of paper or a picture and say ‘create this,’ and not only do we create it, but we make it better, we make it feasible and we make it affordable, that’s really rewarding,” he said. “We have a great time. We really, really do. Bob started it 31 years ago, and we just keep getting better and better.”
Training and experience are necessary for decorating a room with angles, designs, and a flowing pattern of colors, textures and finishes to make the room look finished.
A trained professional is best for designing a house or a room, Lynn said.
For example, most people will look at a room as having four sides. Decorators Unlimited looks at six sides to a room, focusing on the ceiling and floor as the two most important sides.
After looking at the floor and ceiling, Lynn looks at the windows and then the layout of the room. “A house has to function first before you make it beautiful,” Lynn said.
Lynn suggests that potential clients have a true vision and timeline of what they want, then hire a professional and enjoy the process.
Decorators Unlimited has its own 9,000-square-foot boutique showroom called TaDoU, which is open to the public. It houses their furnishings, fabrics, art, accessories, area rugs and more, and has design consultants on hand.
“If you’re looking for one-of-a-kind items or a complete room, we have the furnishings to do it,” he said. “We also offer complimentary delivery on all items purchased.”
A contemporary, modern style is what appeals most to Lynn, who studied famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright in school, and has noticed that Wright’s style has returned to popularity.
Decorators Unlimited is located at 4700 Riverside Drive, Suite 100, in Palm Beach Gardens. For additional information, call (561) 215-7615, e-mail jlynn@decoratorsunlimited.com or visit www.decoratorsunlimited.com.
