M & E Cross, Inc. Interior Design

02/16/2025

Taking a moment to mark Edward's 99th Birthday today. We have the first floor all readied for the arrival of our new cases tomorrow -- a present from Edward, and the Mass Cultural Council. We actually asked for cake.

05/01/2018

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Please enjoy looking at the website of master woodworker Andrei Zbrovsky. For over a decade, Andrei's work graced most of the homes that we did the interior design for. In this website, many of the photos are of our projects. Including the above two photos.

04/29/2018

This Advertorial is about a first class furniture and cabinet maker, Andrei Zbrovsky of Avrora Inc.

No matter what your need, Andrei will design and build it for you in his state of the art studio. When complete, he'll install it for you anywhere in the world.

Andrei excells in creating complex designs and takes great pride in everything he does. Rest assured the finished product will be masterfully crafted and a source of great pride for you. By the way, he is also is a master of the nearly lost art of marketry.

For over a decade, Andrei made all of our work (M.&E. Cross Interior Design), some of which you'll see in this video.
* Please share with those you know will be interested.* Thank you.

Custom furniture by Andrei Zborovski, owner of Avrora Inc.

03/13/2018

There was this very large concrete column in the foyer – part of the building's structure – in the beachfront condo for our clients Drs. Stan & Dale Deckoff, (Sailfish Point, Hutchinson Island, Fl ). Since we couldn’t eliminate the column coupled with their love of collecting Native American art, we designed this Tinglet styled art piece. We then had it sand painted by a Navajo artist, in a ‘totem pole’ style with totems specific to their individual characters and medical specialties.

12/21/2017

What I must say is that the client did NOT design anything that was done for his home. In Steve's study, it was Marc who came up with the idea for the Templar crosses in the coffered ceiling that he designed. The list goes on.

Steve Berry talks about the amazing office environment that M & E Cross Interior Design created for him.

12/21/2017

Here are some "After" shots of the 18 yr. old beach condo we completely renovated. We truly enjoyed doing this renovation for ourselves and chose happy, upbeat colors. It was a fun place to be --wee love the ocean and miss our days on our sailboat named *Illusion* !!

12/21/2017

This was the 2nd penthouse we designed for our British clients. A 6,ooo Sq foot penthouse with 2,500sq feet of terraces and balconies on the 11th floor on the ocean in the Cambria at Hammock Dunes. Exceptional clients and a wonderful job! This project took 1.5 years. I believe there are more photos further down on the page, of the rest of the condo.

M. & E. Cross, Inc. Interior Design

12/21/2017

The last project we did before our very well earned retirement. It took 4.5 years and we didn't finish it until the day before we moved to Ecuador! By that time, we were too worn out to bother taking photos of the interior... it didn't seem to matter anymore ~ it was the end of our careers ~ our business... it was time to move forward, which we have done! 8,000 sq feet, with 2,000+ sq feet of terraces/patios, 4 stories and yes, with an elevator, right on the ocean in Florida. We worked on and chose everything that went on the outside of the house including the driveway, and everything that went into the house but for construction items. Sorry for you all that there are few interior shots. I will post what I have, when I go through the shots that our furniture and cabinet maker took. His work and the work of our two faux finish artists made all the difference! We made a great team, but I am not sorry to hang it all up. Amen.

Well, we FINALLY finished working on this house that has taken 5 years of our lives), on the 20th of July and left for our new, retired life (in Cuenca, Ecuador ), on the 21st!! You may ask, why don't we have photos to show on this wonderful oceanfront 8,000 sq. Ft. house. There are several answers. One is that we actually were working so terribly hard to finish every minute detail before we left, that there was no time or energy to take photos. In addition, we've done so many outstanding projects over the last 38 years, with budgets in the hundreds of thousands to well over a million dollars...and yet, it's never been about showing all that we've done, as much as truly pleasing our clients. This, we've avoided fame and fortune, trading it for recognition amongst those who would hire us and allow us to do wonderful things for them...and for some remarkable stories, which we may someday publish....being ever careful to change the names and so on, to protect those whom the true stories are about. **If you wish to see some other photos of past projects, you may view our website..
If it's still working. That too, will most likely 'bite the dust' and there will be others to pick up the slack -- however, none to ever design nor handle themselves as we have and as all of our clients would say. Ciao! It's finally time for us to be able to think of ourselves and to do or not do, to dress and be as we want to, with no care as to what anyone else thinks or wants from us. Amen!!

10/11/2017

While doing the interior and exterior design for Best selling author Steve Berry and his wife Liz, we had our furniture maker par excellence: Anderi Zbrovsky of Avrora, Inc. make Marc's design for the Berry Coat of Arms. This is all out of wood, and faux finished by our best Faux Finishers Carla Mays & Jeane Frandsen. When you enlarge the photo, you can see the details in this piece that hangs 20 feet high.

Here is a Coat of arms we just completed for our Client Author Steve Berry

06/16/2017

Our faux finish artists putting plaster on the ceilings and antiquing them, in the Master Sitting Room - for our last project. This is the house that took 4.5 years to finish from the ground up. Didn't take many photos.

04/17/2017

*Island* look for condo on the beach with children and dogs!

04/17/2017

Amazing *Before to After* transformations! CLICK on photo to enlarge & see info about them.