Ali Faulkner

Getting started is simple—click "Contact Us" or "Inquire Today" on the website to reach out about your project and schedule an initial consultation to discuss your design goals. Share information about your project scope (ground-up build, renovation, furniture refresh), location, timeline, and what you envision for your home. We'll respond to schedule a consultation where we discuss your style, needs, budget, and whether we're the right fit for bringing your vision to life. This initial conversation determines next steps for creating your dream home. Located at 6308 W Coast Highway in Newport Beach, we're ready to take the interior design stress off your plate and give you a home you won't believe is real—contact us today to begin.

The initial consultation includes discussing your style, needs, timeline, budget, and project scope to determine fit and outline next steps for creating your dream home with seamless processes. We'll explore what you love aesthetically, how you live in your space, what's working and what's not, when you'd like the project completed, and what investment level makes sense for your goals. This conversation helps us understand whether we're the right fit for bringing your vision to life and allows you to experience our communication style and approach. We'll provide preliminary observations and outline what working together would look like. Contact us to schedule your initial consultation and begin the journey toward a home that feels like you.

Ali Faulkner is the founder and principal designer of AEF Interiors with nearly a decade of experience in luxury hospitality and high-end business consulting before launching her own design firm.Her extensive corporate background in hospitality sharpened her organizational process skills and gave her a psychic-level understanding of people's needs and desires, while her natural eye for design pushed her to create thoughtfully designed homes. This unique combination of clear business processes, mean paper trail abilities, and innate design talent allows her to deliver both beautiful aesthetics and seamless project management.Ali's professional experience means you'll always know what's next, never wonder what's going on, and finally get the home you want through a far more enjoyable process.

AEF Interiors provides full-service interior design from fully custom ground-up builds to furniture refreshes in Orange County and beyond, combining thoughtful design with seamless business processes for a stress-free experience.Our comprehensive services cover everything in between complete custom builds and furniture updates, including space planning, material selection, furniture curation, project coordination, procurement management, and installation oversight. We run your project like a business with clear deliverables, consistent communication, and creative solutions for any problems that arise—making the process way more enjoyable than typical interior design projects.Located at 6308 W Coast Highway in Newport Beach, our team brings hospitality and consulting backgrounds to create timeless homes with modern charm.

AEF Interiors is unique in running interior design projects like a business (but a really fun business) with clear deliverables, consistent communication, and seamless processes rooted in luxury hospitality and consulting backgrounds.Unlike typical interior design firms where projects get clunky with shifting timelines, frustrating setbacks, and shaky communication, we approach each project with the organizational rigor and client service excellence learned from high-end hospitality and business consulting. We marry thoughtful design with professional business processes to provide an experience—and final product—you won't believe is real. Our team cares about your home design project as though it's our own.This hospitality-meets-design approach delivers both dream-worthy aesthetics and stress-free execution that stands apart in the industry.