YEARS OF EXCEPTIONAL DESIGN + ORGANIZATION
MEET MICHELE
What is hard for some, is easy for others. Organization + design comes naturally to me. My specialty is the ability to understand the purpose of a space to optimize its functionality and make it beautiful. Following a long career in the luxury event industry, I am taking my talents to the home. Simply, I love to create spaces that look great and work seamlessly, because I believe that a home should cultivate the peace of mind, order and beauty you deserve.
HOW I GOT HERE
Straight out of college, in the early 1990’s, I began my career focused on attention to detail while working for the Ritz-Carlton in New York City on Central Park South. I climbed my way up from club concierge to front desk agent, to assistant to talent executive (the person who booked all the celebrities) to room service, then stewarding manager and then ultimately Director of Catering and Director of Food and Beverage. At that time, I was the first woman in the entire Ritz Carlton Hotel Company to ascend to this position. During the mid 1990’s, I met my husband Ben, fell in love and moved to Marblehead. Upon moving to the Boston area, I accepted a position at the prestigious Fairmont Copley Plaza as the assistant director of catering. After the birth of our first child, I decided to put my entrepreneurial skills to work and Michele Mottola Events Consulting (“MMEC”) was born.
The past twenty years of my professional life have been devoted to designing, organizing, and executing high-end special events with a particular emphasis luxury weddings. During that time, I designed and executed hundreds of weddings with total budgets exceeding $30 million. My goal for MMEC was to create a high-end special event design and management company with an intimate and collaborative approach to event planning for both social and corporate clients all over the country. Over the past two decades, I’ve had the pleasure of designing weddings and special events for hundreds of clients, including celebrities such as John Cena, Dennis Eckersley, Jeremy Hermida and Martha Stewart.
HOW IT STARTED | MICHELE MOTTOLA HOME
It’s fair to say that if you know me, you know that I like order, planning, and design. I recognized that my design and organizational compulsion could not be turned off just because the world was on hold and facing a pandemic. In fact, it allowed me to harness my organizational and design energy to turn homes into delightful usable spaces that people would love being in 24/7. As many of us came to realize, our homes were suddenly pulling triple duty as offices, remote schools, and gyms. I love showing people that their homes are full of unrealized potential.
At Michele Mottola Home, I can easily transform your current floor plan and turn your home into a much more orderly, functional, beautiful, and calm space; and I can do it quickly.
2021 was a year that I decided to make the pivot to hang my hat up for events and take what feels like a natural leap to design and organize homes. It is very satisfying for me to see the results of the before and after of my work and to see how happy and excited the clients are with their homes.