We all run boutique firms and in my home office there have been so many times I found myself wishing I could turn my chair around to talk to a peer designer,” she tells me.

Veteran interior designer Debora Lyn has opened a design firm and boutique in downtown Elmhurst, offering design services, curated home goods, and a prime location near the train station.

The Home and Baby-Child Boutique, which opened in November, and Interior Design Studio, which opened in 2019, share the same 2,900-square-foot retail space at 246 Federal Road.

After 20 years of friendship, careers and family, they decided two years ago to open the luxury interior design boutique in the Bannerman Crossing Shopping Center off Bannerman Road.