For the past 20 years, Mary Lynn Cox has been practicing interior design in Chapel Hill. She is president of M.L. Designs, Inc., an interior design firm that specializes in custom residential interiors. Mary Lynn has a long history of design work at Governors Club, having decorated the first model in Governors Square. She has worked with numerous clients in Governors Club and has received the Custom Home Program Team Project award three times in the past few years with different teams of architects and builders. Mary Lynn has also received numerous design awards over the past fifteen years, and has been published both locally and nationally.

Mary Lynn is committed to increasing both her knowledge and that of those around her. She is currently an active professional member of IIDA (The International Interior Design Association), is an allied member of ASID (The American Society of Interior Design), and has served on several interior design boards. She has also taught an Interior Decorating Class since 1987 to the general public to broaden their personal knowledge and appreciation of Interior Design.

Mary Lynn’s work strives to reflect her clients’ personalities and lifestyles and both function and beauty play important roles in her work. She works closely with the client, the architect and the builder in order to provide the necessary selections in a timely manner.

Ms. Cox has many ongoing projects. In September 2002, Mary Lynn decorated five houses for the Durham and Orange Counties Parade of Homes. The most notable was the “Welcoming Arms” house in the Meadowmont community of Chapel Hill. This house was built by the Corner Stone Development Group with the proceeds of the home benefiting Habitat for Humanity.

The goal of M.L. Design, Inc. is to listen to our clients and to understand their wishes. Then, quality, appropriateness to location, lifestyle, budget and architecture determine the goals for a project. M.L. Designs wants to insure that clients enjoy living in their homes, whether it is a new home or an existing one.