ABOUT US

Commercial & Retail Design Services

What we offer

Hurlbutt Designs offers a variety of services for both retail and design clients, with a 5,000-square-foot design studio and retail store in Lower Village, Kennebunk. We have a unique mix of home decor, including fine furniture, lighting, rugs, fabrics, bedding, and accessories. Our multi-disciplined design team can handle everything from a simple refurbishment to a full residential or commercial design project.

Our commercial design can be seen throughout the Kennebunkport Resort Collection, including Hidden Pond and Earth Restaurant, Tides Beach Clubs, The Kennebunkport Inn, Batson River, and The Grand Hotel. Our residential design work has been featured in magazines such as Traditional Home, Better Homes & Gardens, Coastal Living, Decor Maine, and Maine Home+Design. Whether you are building, renovating, or looking for inspiration, Hurlbutt Designs is here to bring your vision home. 

Why Choose Us?

Hurlbutt Designs is southern Maine’s leading design resource center. We bring a refreshed sensibility and an excited approach to all projects and enter into each relationship with fresh, creative energy. Working with Hurlbutt Designs provides a unique opportunity to collaborate with a team of experts in their field with years of experience. 

Our Story & Talented Team

LOUISE HURLBUTT
Co-founder of Hurlbutt Designs

Louise Hurlbutt, the co-founder of Hurlbutt Designs, has traveled the world with a discerning eye for design. From mud huts in Afghanistan to New York City, Tokyo, and London and everywhere in between, Louise and her husband, Ralph, have lived, worked and embraced the local culture. This breadth of experience has made Louise a creative, dynamic and innovative designer. Her love of art and antiques coupled with classic design training in London, as well as her extensive travel come together in her beautiful and innovative design work.

Louise became interested in design while working in Tokyo for the internationally renowned fashion designer, Hanae Mori. Then in the mid 70s, Louise studied at the New York School of Design and started her first interior design business in New York. In 1980 she moved her business to London while her husband, Ralph, had a six year stint there with Mellon Bank. While she was in London, she studied at the renowned Inchbald School of Design and expanded her business selling a collection of fine antiques and offering interior design services. When the Hurlbutts returned stateside, Louise sold the business and started what we know now as Hurlbutt Designs. She continued to travel, collecting and shipping containers of beautiful antiques back to her shop in Kennebunkport. While the business model has changed to embrace new technologies, design trends and styles, Louise has built relationships with top furniture makers in North Carolina and around the world, bringing an unparalleled level of design and quality to Maine. Hurlbutt Designs is, more than ever, a unique and exciting shopping destination that accompanies a world-class interior design firm. Louise has worked on residential and commercial projects throughout New England, Pennsylvania, Florida, London and New York. Her interior design work has been featured in many well-known publications, including Better Homes & Garden, Country Living, Hamptons Magazine, Maine Home+Design and Accent Magazine. 

RALPH HURLBUTT
Co-founder of Hurlbutt Designs

Ralph co-founded Hurlbutt Designs with his wife, Louise, in 1998 after a career in international banking and financial consulting. Ralph’s career included extended stints in New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney, where he and Louise developed their extensive list of resources and style ideas.

BONNIE WEEMAN
Designer

Bonnie helps clients design the home of their dreams. Since joining Hurlbutt Designs in 2007, Bonnie has completed an impressive number of residential homes and condos. Bonnie enjoys building lasting relationships with her design clients, as evidenced by their repeat requests for her services over the years. Raised in beautiful Cape Porpoise, Maine, Bonnie knows the Kennebunks like a historian. She graduated from Kennebunk High School and attended University of Southern Maine. She lives in Wells with her husband, Mark, where they enjoy a variety of outdoor activities including kayaking, paddle boarding, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

CHRISTINA HAWKES
Designer

Since graduating from Babson College in Wellesley, MA, Christina has worked in several housing industries: ranging from mixed-use commercial development, loan origination, and corporate relocation, before entering the design industry. Leveraging her business schooling and real estate experience, she can manage design decisions that support her clients' financial goals. Christina has enjoyed working on a multitude of design projects ranging from commercial interiors and investment properties to luxury residential renovations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. Christina feels that the most rewarding aspect of her work is the relationship that develops between the design team and the client.

As a Maine native, Christina appreciates all the state has to offer. When she is not working, she spends as much time as she can enjoying the outdoors, either skiing at Sugarloaf or boating in Casco Bay with her family. Most recently, she and her partner have become recreational lobstermen.

MARK LEINENBACH
Weekend Store Manager

Mark comes from a diverse background in clinical psychology and business. He has had a colorful life living in such cultural areas as the U.S. Virgin Islands, NewYork, Boston, and Atlanta. His educational background includes a BA in psychology and English and graduate work in psychology at Harvard. He started at Hurlbutt Designs in 2004 as a part-time weekend sales associate for the experience of working with fine antiques and to balance his stressful career as a child and family therapist. In 2014 he was promoted to store manager and practiced his therapeutic art only on family and friends. Today Mark is back in school pursuing a forensic clinical psychology doctorate but can be seen on weekends discussing his other love, design and how Louise and he procured the many fine pieces that are on display at Hurlbutt Designs today.

MARY BATH
Bookkeeper

Knowledgeable, helpful and friendly, Mary is an integral part of Hurlbutt Designs as nothing happens without passing over her desk. She has extensive experience and knowledge in accounting and has been with Hurlbutt Designs since its opening over 20 years ago. Mary grew up in Kennebunk, Maine, and has lived in Arundel for 30 years. She enjoys her role with Hurlbutt Designs and especially enjoys meeting our clients.