Angela Crittenden
Principal | Owner | Chief Designer
Known for her comfortable, southern style, Angela Crittenden is the lead designer and owner of Teal Interior Design. Angela has assembled an amazing team that prides themselves in creating unique, customized spaces in the triangle and southeastern North Carolina.
Angela graduated from Meredith College with an Interior Design, Art & Business Degree. She has passed all NCIDQ certification and is ASID certified, which gives her the education and knowledge to work on most any design project. After graduation, she worked in the interiors business for over 5 years. In 2008, Angela formed Teal Interior Design, LLC. She spent 4 years in the triangle running Teal Interiors and designing homes in this part of the state before moving east to build the coastal location of the firm. With over 15 years of design experience, Angela has built numerous relationships which have turned into life long friends, and clients. Angela works hard on each client’s personal definition of what their goals are for the their space. Are their children in the home? Grandchildren? 4-legged friends? She spends a lot of time make sure that the client’s priorities are met in her designs while creating beautiful spaces that are timeless and really enhance the client’s lifestyle and wishes. A home should be a place where memories are made and where families can function in everyday living, all while being beautiful.
In addition to running a busy, growing Interior Design firm, Angela’s number one team is her family of 6 in Wilmington. She has three adorable, energetic young children Jenny, Lyon and Caz, 1 very playful yellow lab pup, Whaler, and husband Jeff, who is a boat broker.
Wondering where Angela got the name for Teal Interior Design? TEAL is not only Angela’s favorite color, but an acronym that is near and dear to her heart, and the beginning of meaningful names in Angela’s life…. one being her beloved Dalmatian, Lila, who is Angela’s number one fan (tight race between the children and Lila).
Angela Crittenden
Principal | Owner | Chief Designer
Known for her comfortable, southern style, Angela Crittenden is the lead designer and owner of Teal Interior Design. Angela has assembled an amazing team that prides themselves in creating unique, customized spaces in the triangle and southeastern North Carolina.
Angela graduated from Meredith College with an Interior Design, Art & Business Degree. She has passed all NCIDQ certification and is ASID certified, which gives her the education and knowledge to work on most any design project. After graduation, she worked in the interiors business for over 5 years. In 2008, Angela formed Teal Interior Design, LLC. She spent 4 years in the triangle running Teal Interiors and designing homes in this part of the state before moving east to build the coastal location of the firm. With over 15 years of design experience, Angela has built numerous relationships which have turned into life long friends, and clients. Angela works hard on each client’s personal definition of what their goals are for the their space. Are their children in the home? Grandchildren? 4-legged friends? She spends a lot of time make sure that the client’s priorities are met in her designs while creating beautiful spaces that are timeless and really enhance the client’s lifestyle and wishes. A home should be a place where memories are made and where families can function in everyday living, all while being beautiful.
In addition to running a busy, growing Interior Design firm, Angela’s number one team is her family of 6 in Wilmington. She has three adorable, energetic young children Jenny, Lyon and Caz, 1 very playful yellow lab pup, Whaler, and husband Jeff, who is a boat broker.
Wondering where Angela got the name for Teal Interior Design? TEAL is not only Angela’s favorite color, but an acronym that is near and dear to her heart, and the beginning of meaningful names in Angela’s life…. one being her beloved Dalmatian, Lila, who is Angela’s number one fan (tight race between the children and Lila).
Dorothy Crowder
Associate Designer
Dorothy Crowder is a Wilmington native transplanted to the Raleigh area and
manages Teal Interior Design’s Triangle office. After working in the clothing industry, she has come to realize her passion is interiors and putting together fabric schemes, which is fitting since she holds a degree from NCSU College of Textiles. She has two energetic, busy children, an active husband who cannot stand being away from the water, which makes it easy to go back and forth from Raleigh to Wilmington to collaborate with the Wilmington Teal Interior Design team and enjoy the coast!
Allen Lee
Junior Project Assistant
Allen Lee was born and raised in Wilmington. She has always had a love of building, design and architecture that she inherited from her father, who was a local custom contractor, taking her to his job sites and wrapping Christmas gifts in house plans. She has a Bachelor of Industrial Design degree from the College of Design at NCSU and, after graduating, worked for a leading national tile company in the Wilmington branch as the design consultant. After 5 years there, she spent time up and down the east coast with her husband as he pursued graduate studies and worked in Beaufort, NC and Charleston, SC. They moved back to Wilmington in July 2021 with their three children and two dogs. Allen and her family are happy to be back home in Wilmington and enjoy getting out on the boat and spending time with family and friends.
Kelly Ridenhour
Project Coordinator
Bernard Thaxton
Overall Handyman
Finally, we have the famous Bernard Thaxton, Angela’s right hand man. Bernard has worked with Angela for over 15 years. He is the heavy lifter, the delivery guy, the installer, the fixer, and the “work husband” who actually sticks to his “honey-do” list! Bernard is from New York but found his southern roots in North Carolina when he came to visit some family and decided one day he would settle down here. So, after pursuing an acting career in California and realizing he did not love west coast life… back to North Carolina he came. He met his wife, started a delivery company in 2000, had 3 children, and the rest is history. When Bernard is not having to do all of our hard work at installations, he is hanging with his Shadow… his beloved 8 year old black lab. We could not do our job without him and he his charming personality always makes an installation fun!