About Nicolette

I’m Nicolette Bouw, the Dutch Designer and CEO of NIBIO, LLC.  After moving to the US in 2009, from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, we’ve made the Seattle area our home.

I love helping clients from all over the world fall madly in love with their homes.

My style is best described as sophisticated, unique and luxurious with a blend of inspirations from around the world.

I founded NIBIO, after graduating from The Amsterdam School of Interior Design, with a passion and expertise in interior architecture, interior design, and staging. You can view my graduating project here.

My secret sauce is cracking the code of impossible spaces and creating well-designed layouts with meticulous space planning. With over 14 years of experience, I’ve mastered the art of giving clients magazine-worthy homes with a stress-free creative process.

When I’m not in my office drawing designs, you can find me at HomeGoods or at the Tile Showroom looking for ideas and inspiration.

I enjoy watching movies with my family in our home theater, when it snows you can find me on the slopes, we also enjoy traveling the world.

I love to eat Stroopwafels, double-salted licorice and Dutch cheese. We also are huge Formula 1 (car racing) and whenever we can we try to be on the track to support our 2 times World Champion Dutch driver Max Verstappen.

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Testimonials

I serendipitously stumbled upon The Dutch Designer NIBIO (Nicolette) after viewing her portfolio online. My primary objective was a full scale kitchen remodel. However upon our first meeting, Nicolette really listened to our needs, concerns & desires for our busy family of 4 that went beyond a kitchen remodel. She asked many thoughtful questions to help us think about maximum family flow, efficiency space & style. After a few weeks, she returned to unveil her 4-5 design options for us to consider. Nicolette is a wonderfully talented, conscientious & empathetic designer & she presented various designs to suit our entire family’s wishlist and that was not an easy task. Embarking on a home improvement project is quite daunting & a major investment. And what I’ve come to learn is having a talented & trusted designer is a VITAL component for optimal success. Because we felt we were in such good hands with NIBIO, we expanded the scope of our project from initial kitchen remodel to basically a main floor remodel, which also included a family mudroom space in our garage. This remodel has not only increased the financial value of our home BUT more importantly it has changed how our family spends time & interact in our new beautiful space. Our old space was constricting, confided & cluttered. The new space is open, inviting, beautiful & efficient for our family’s busy flow. NIBIO is now our in-house designer for future projects in 2020 & beyond!

Our home needs a whole design makeover….everything in the living room is dark grey, the upstairs bathroom has bright blue walls, and the upstairs hallway is beige… it just doesn’t go together. We were looking for some guidance on how to tie everything together with some design tips and how to make the house more functional for our daily life.
Nicolette is AMAZING, we accomplished WAY more than I thought possible! She was so incredibly helpful and is so creative on the spot that we tackled the whole house (2300sq ft) during our VIP session. You can tell she has a lot of experience since she has a solution for everything :). For each room, we went over possible layout designs, furniture and curtain colors, paint colors, fixture ideas, so many cost saving tips, how to extend our kitchen dining area to be able to turn our dining room into an office and much much more. She also sent me so many product links and ideas to help guide us in keeping the house flow together, but not be all so uniform. I cannot recommend her enough!
My mind has been going a million miles a minute since our consultation with her, in excitement from all the wonderful ideas she gave us and got us on track to turn our house into our dream home.

Our kitchen remodel was at least 8 years in the making. As the appliances slowly failed, and the cabinets and counters showed their age and became more and more dated, one thing held us back: The Design. “He” would come up with one 3D computer modeled concept after another, and “She” would worry if any of them would really work, and even if they did, what about the details that would make it a delight to see and cook in. “We” went to multiple home shows and talked to many designers. In Nicolette we finally found the right balance: someone that would both listen and incorporate our tastes and the vision of what we wanted, along with providing fresh ideas, design sense, and reassuring and gentle guidance (and a rare firm hand) from start to finish to ensure the final result was truly wonderful. Nicolette came up with several different design options, and paid special attention to making the most efficient and creative use of the space available. She also brought a large computer screen with her to show us her highly detailed 3D design rendering, making it much easier to see how our current space could be transformed. She was even able to make modifications to the model as we talked over the details. After it was done, it was amazing how well her concept drawings matched the actual remodel. We also appreciated her detailed assistance in picking out the specific materials so everything in the design fit together. One of our favorite pictures of our new kitchen is not the very showy pictures on Nicolette’s website. It is one we snapped on Christmas day, with over a dozen family members gathered around the island, enjoying each other’s company while preparations for dinner continued unabated. That picture never would have been possible without Nicolette’s help and guidance.

I hired NIBIO LLC for a studio-remodeling into home-office, including floor, wall-painting, and furniture. I would highly recommend Nicolette for her attention to the details, the ability to present her ideas in a very approachable way, and above all a creativity that highlights her European origins and that is reflected in the ultimate style of her creations. She has been able to completely revolutionize this space, where now I feel much more creative, focused, and productive. Thanks again Nicolette!

I contacted Nicolette for help with a space plan in an oddly shaped master bathroom/closet configuration. I saw some of her designs online and was impressed with her work. She responded to my request promptly, gave me a reasonable quote for our project, and came up with an amazing design (several actually) for our master bath! My husband was reluctant at first to hire a designer, but he was so excited with her work that he texted our contractor that same day to get started. I would love to work with Nicolette again!

Nicolette is an amazing designer! I felt very fortunate to have her support and encouragement during my home project. She was professional, budget conscious, and flexible. Nicolette had a great understanding of my vision and gently guided me in finding the right fit. Her passion inspired and turned our ‘cookie cutter’ space into a HOME. Her tremendous knowledge and experience in space savings made the move and down-sizing much easier.

We hired Nibio LLC for interior design work and we could not be happier with the result. (If we could give six stars we would!) Nicolette was able to capture our sensibility and elements that we enjoy in the house, but with a professional’s experience, recommend options that we wouldn’t have considered on our own. Her work was excellent, on time and she was a wonderfully nice person to work with.

Highly recommended. We’ll definitely hire her the next time we need help!

Nicolette (NIBIO LLC) was a referral from a friend, and I am so happy we had the opportunity to work with her on our kitchen/living area remodel. Nicolette is very creative in the development of options and solutions. She listens closely to her clients to understand intent beyond mere words and has the ability to translate that intent into fabulous designs. She came up with eight design options for us to choose from for our project. Impressive. She encouraged us to try new things, and tied together color, texture and furnishings I would have never dared on my own. It looks AMAZING. In addition to her terrific design capabilities, she was super responsive and attentive throughout the entire construction project, for which we will be forever grateful. As often happens, we had more than a few issues with our general contractor and sub-contractors. On more than one occasion Nicolette saved the day – and the project – going completely out of her way to come to our home (with no notice) to help the sub-contractors interpret the inaccurate floorplans left by the contractor when the “on-site project manager” disappeared. Although her job should have been done with the design completion, she made many, many site visits to make sure all was going to plan and to troubleshoot issues as they arose. Without a doubt, the project would not have been successful without her. Nicolette’s style is to take ‘ownership’ of the design to bring her client’s dream to life, and she absolutely refuses to allow any shortcuts or misinterpretation from suppliers impact the outcome. Design and construction projects in the home are very hard. Everyone needs a professional like Nicolette in their corner. Highly recommended!

You made me enjoy my living room again. I had completely given up and really didn’t think anything could be done to make it any better. Then you walked in the door and in 1 hour my home and my attitude were transformed. I can’t wait to have you back to do it again! THANK YOU!!!

Nicolette came highly recommended. I am a perfectionist and very frugal, probably not an ideal client…but I have needed professional input on furniture selection, style, color and other finishing touches to really finish out my space. I am so thankful Nicolette was willing to work with me on my project. She is timely, professional and has a keen eye for detail, really incorporating elements of my home. Within a short amount of time, I really felt like she understood my style and could work with it. I would highly recommend working with her when making style choices for your home to give it the look you intended in your mind! Every real estate agent should have her in their call list as a gift for new home owners! Nicolette was great to work with! She is very friendly and supportive, which made me very comfortable showing her some of our most disorganized corners of our house.

She used her creativity and roll-up-her-sleeves enthusiasm to guide me through organizing our storage room in just a couple of hours, and left me with a clear action plan for getting rid of things we no longer needed.

The end result was a much more functional, usable room that no longer added stress to our lives. And the progress had a snowball effect, causing us to do the same in our garage the next week. I highly recommend Nicolette.

Nicolette came to my home to discuss ideas for redecorating/updating. We had planned to spend 1 or 2 hours walking through specific areas to discuss changes I could make to create the look I wanted. We ended up spending a little more time than that and came up with some solid ideas for painting, lighting and small furniture changes. She was very willing to use as much of my existing furnishings as I wanted and helped me to consider options for change that would be the least cost for the most reward. Nicolette is very easy to talk to and seemed very competent. I am looking forward to implementing the changes we discussed and am comfortable knowing I can rely on her for assistance.

My husband and I have worked with Nicolette at Nibio for 6 years. She is an amazing talent. She approaches a project with the objective to understand a client’s needs, desires, style, individuality and budget. Nicolette provides detailed drawings, not just mood boards, allowing us to truly visualize the end result. Her exceptional attention to detail moves the project from very good to perfect! She is open to input and collaboration with both of us finding solutions to meet opposing preferences. When we moved across the state, we hired Nicolette to come and update our new home and could not be happier with the results. After working with Nicolette for so long on many different projects, I am still amazed how fast she gets to the core of our problem and quickly finds a solution. It is a solution that does not break the bank but is always something spot on. If you want an interior architect that can understand you almost better that you can yourself; Hire Nibio! You will be thrilled!

I’ve worked with Nicolette on a few projects in my home. She helped me organize and rearrange the home office I share with my husband. Nicolette has a flair for efficient, original furniture layout and finding the best way to use space.

She updated my living room, so instead of being a hodge-podge of knick-knacks, it now looks professionally decorated with a proper color palette!

Additionally, she’s rearranged furniture on a whim in other rooms, picked out paint colors, and gone shopping with me to find perfect pieces. My home would be a mess without her!