Interior Designer - Color Consultant

Ferreri has garnered awards for interior design in both commercial buildings (i.e., restaurants, boutiques), and private residences. Photos of his work have appeared in local as well as national publications. Ferreri's designs have been described as intimate, relaxing, warm and inviting, with a nod to the future while retaining a healthy respect for the past.

Concerned about "demolition through neglect," and passionate about the preservation and restoration of important historic homes as a means of recording a community's architectural heritage, Ferreri developed the idea for a column on the subject in 1999. Since then, "Present, Past, Future," has run monthly within the pages of the Staten Island Advance, a Newhouse Publication with a daily circulation of 60,000.

Four years later, he conceived the idea for a column titled "Designers at Home," also for the Staten Island Advance, which has taken readers inside the homes of some of the country's top interior designers, including Mario Buatta, Jamie Drake, Sheila Bridges, Richard Ridge, Albert Hadley, Eric Cohler, Noel Jeffrey, Katherine Stephens, Thomas Britt, Alexa Hampton, Larry Lazlo and David Barett. In addition, the many "How To" features that Ferreri has written for the newspaper have often made their way to the Newhouse wire services, and from there, to a national audience.

         A devoted preservationist, Ferreri personally has restored three homes that date to the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century, handling most of the restoration himself. He is the president of the Preservation League of Staten Island and a member of the board of trustees of The Historic Districts Council in Manhattan .
       Ferreri is recognized for his adept use of color and has designed historically accurate color schemes for institutions including the Museum at Historic Richmondtown on Staten Island. He also has designed exterior color schemes for many 19th and early 20th Century homes in New York and New Jersey.  In fact, one such home was seen on the cable television show, "Restore America," and another, a circa 1850 Italianate villa for which he designed a period-appropriate color scheme of Straw, Green, and Red could be viewed this season on a new cable television show titled, "Generation Renovation." In 2006, the HGTV series "If Walls Could Talk," featured a Colonial Revival home whose exterior was "colored" by Jim Ferreri in shades of grey, winter white and forest green.
      Ferreri recently was the designer of record responsible for the exhibition, "The George Way Collection" at the John J. Marchi Hall at Snug Harbor Cultural Center. Photos of the exhibition appeared in People Magazine as well as in The New York Times. In addition, the April, 2007 edition of "This Old House Magazine" featured one of Jim Ferreri's exterior color designs as part of its cover story, titled "Get More Curb Appeal."

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