Leanne Richard of Spotlight Design Center

Leanne Richard is a kitchen and bath designer at Spotlight Design Center in Worcester, and all eight homeowners who reviewed her on Houzz gave five stars. She designs rather than builds: her listing covers kitchen and bathroom design, custom cabinets and vanities, 3D renderings and floor plans, with a typical job cost of $15,000 to $100,000 across Worcester and thirteen surrounding towns. The Community Advocate described her in 2022 as Spotlight's architect and design lead holding the National Kitchen and Bath Association's 30 Under 30 award, and a 2025 article in the same paper described the company's senior designer as holding degrees in architecture and building construction technologies with the same NKBA recognition. What customers describe most is the collaboration. A May 2020 reviewer said she took their broad ideas and enhanced them while keeping function and design at the forefront, stayed patient through multiple layouts and a last-minute cabinet change, and — writing about a year after the job — confirmed the cabinets had held up. A February 2020 customer renovating a home built in 1894 credited her with solutions to the building's challenges while keeping them inside their budget. A June 2019 customer doing a full-bath remodel described her recommending tile, marble and granite suppliers and acting as a sounding board on stone patterns, paint and colour scheme. Repeat work is the other pattern. A September 2019 customer went to her for a custom vanity because of an awkward size, then came straight back for the kitchen. An interior designer writing in March 2019 said she had worked with Leanne on four projects and called her extremely detail-oriented and prompt with follow-ups. Attributed rather than verified: reviews posted on HomeProsVerified in September 2023 describe Spotlight's team — "Alban and his design team, Leanne in particular" — as hands-on from the first design steps through the full installation. Comments collected on the company's own site and on Birdeye also single her out by name. Those are accounts the firm gathers, not an independent audit. What to know before calling: the written accounts on her own profile all fall between March 2019 and May 2020, and she works within Spotlight rather than as an independent contractor. A 2019 reviewer describes her working with the contractors to keep things moving, so ask who holds the installation contract and which builder is doing the physical work. For a design-led kitchen or bath where layout, cabinet selection and coordination with your own builder matter most, these accounts point squarely at her — just confirm recent references and the build side separately.