What we do
For over 20 years, Townsley Designs has been transforming ordinary spaces into personalized designs for your special event.
From our first “accidental” event, to currently being involved in a myriad of outstanding occasions, Townsley Designs has earned the enduring trust of our clients while still being able to maintain our same, original core values.
Tailored environments, a hallmark of Townsley Designs, allow clients a backdrop that truly reflects their own personal identity. Our designers take the time to play detective to read between the lines and help clients decipher what they really want. Masters of nuance, our team members sometimes translate even the haziest idea into magnificent reality.
Regardless of size, or budget, our proprietary approach and innate collaboration ensures every event will live up to the highest expectations.
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How We Work
Each event is handled by not only one of our dedicated designers, but by our entire team. At Townsley Designs, every team member, including our event facilitators and production crew plays a crucial role in the success of our events.
Knowing you have our commitment and dedication of time and expertise on your side allows you to enjoy your event while we take care of rest!
Our Process
No idea is too challenging! From our initial meeting, designers will create customized floor plans, produce artistic renderings, and organize necessary details to create a truly unique event.
Our expansive and ever evolving inventory can provide everything from a chic lounge to the elegance of chandeliers, custom walls, props, and drapery. If the right piece does not exist, Townsley Designs will design and produce the perfect piece that is right for you!
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Our Services
- Environmental Design and Transformation
- Initial Design Concept & Development
- Custom Built Props, Facades, Entrances
- Residential Lounges and Styling
- Brand Activation & Festival Design
- Specialty Perimeter and Tent Accent Draping
- Custom Carpeting and Flooring
- Graphic Design and Signage
- Specialty Paint
- Brand Positioning & Integration
- Custom Step & Repeats
- Custom Furniture and Upholstery
- Custom Stage Sets and Facades
- Floor plans, Renderings and Visual Support
- Destination Decor Services Available
We Travel!
Not in Austin? Not a problem! Contact us today if you're interested in having Townsley Designs hit the road to be a part of you next event!
Meet our Townsley Team
Shonda Townsley
The Who: The company bears her name, and Shonda vows to maintain the quality of every event that Townsley Designs produces. Shonda is personally invested in every piece that goes out and every event it goes into. She is the cool-headed organizer, the logistics lady familiar with every back-of-house person in venues across Texas. She is one who gets things done.
The Why: Impeccable attention to detail. Inventive talent for color palettes. Unstoppable pursuit of the perfect party. Inevitably exceeding the expected. Possessing extensive knowledge of superlative vendors and unparalleled access to the best venues and locations.
Billy Townsley
The Who: Quick-witted and fast to the punch line, Billy is ‘The Master of Procurement’, locating the exact items to individualize each event’s theme. Billy is invested in maintaining the quality of the company, ensuring that clients are not just satisfied, but delighted with the results.
The Why: Billy sees beauty in the bones of an object, a gift that pairs well with the Townsley team’s ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. The result? An inventory unmatched in the event world.
Lily Kuo Gonzales
The Who: Packing major style into all her designs and the passion she brings to each and every project, Lily is there from initial concept to fabulously finished product. Her posh events range from grand weddings, classically styled parties, to sumptuously ground-breaking charity events. For almost a decade she has been reinventing inventiveness.
The Why: Is it better to be left or right brained? Why choose? Lily commands both sides, bringing sharp analytical skills as well as killer style to every design. Textile obsessed and detail focused, she adds her signature of chic personalized graphic elements to each event.
Joanna Kerbel
The Who: A young newcomer to the events scene, Joanna has pushed the envelope from day one. Using her 5+ years of experience in retail management coupled with her natural creative instincts, Joanna thrives in this fast paced, energetic, and innovative environment. When she's not on one of our fabulous event sites, you will find Joanna using her natural creative edge to design custom graphics and signage that can be seen throughout many of our featured events. Follow us on social media? You'll find her there to! Sharing our most recent party pictures and exclusive updates, Joanna has her hand in it all!
The Why: Her ability to look at things in a unique and unfiltered way makes Joanna a key element in our design process. Her methodical and hands-on approach to things coupled with her no-excuses attitude is what we know and love best.
John Burks
The Who: Dedicating more than half his life to the event business has not stemmed John Burks’ torrent of dramatic and creative verve. A non-conformist, Burks believes firmly in the sensation of innovation. Each of his projects is original from simple facades to fully lit show stopping signs, and spectacular one-of-a-kind props.
The Why: Burks continually jumps into the latest and greatest project with the top coordinators in Texas. Believing that the more sparkle, the better, Burks’ passion is conceiving and creating the most extraordinary elements of each event. Want to see a virtuoso at work? Burks’ latest projects, “Renderings to Real Life” are available to you on Townsley Designs Facebook and Twitter.
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