Meet The Designers

Melissa Snow

Melissa Snow
Founder & Senior Designer
ASIS Member
 
Melissa Snow relocated to Chico, California, from the Bay Area in 1999. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design from CSU Chico.
 
With over 20 years of experience, Melissa specializes in ground-up construction, remodels, and space planning for both residential and commercial projects. Her expertise spans color selection, staging, decorating, and even custom furniture design. Many of her furniture pieces have been showcased at furniture and gift markets across the country, reflecting her creative versatility and innovative approach.
 
In 2008, Melissa fulfilled her dream of owning her own design firm when she founded Dolce Home & Design in Chico. Her mission is simple yet profound: to create spaces that are not only functional and beautiful but also deeply authentic and aligned with her clients’ unique visions.
 
Melissa believes that truly listening to her clients is the cornerstone of great design. By working collaboratively and side-by-side, she ensures that every project reflects the client’s personality, lifestyle, and dreams. Her approach blends creativity, expertise, and a deep commitment to crafting spaces that feel divinely aligned and genuinely yours.
 
Whether you’re building from the ground up, embarking on a remodel, or reimagining an existing space, Melissa’s thoughtful and intentional design process will guide you toward creating a home or business that feels authentically you.
Maria Barneson
Feng Shui & Space Clearing Guru
 
Maria Barneson is a passionate woman, who loves living life to the fullest.  She has over 17 years’ experience in beauty, coaching, fashion and space organization. Her experience includes both management and professional services for top executives at leading companies, such as Benefit Cosmetics.  She holds degrees in Product Development from the Fashion Institute for Design and Merchandising (FIDM) of San Francisco, as well as a degree in Behavioral and Social Sciences.  These provided her with a combined understanding of both people and the processes that support their self expression in the world.  She understands the multitude of details involved in bringing an individual’s essence into reality, yet also appreciates the magic of moments when creativity arises.  Maria also loves rigorous self-development and personal growth training.  In her ongoing training, she refines her coaching skills – supporting others to expand their awareness, transform their views, and live into powerful futures.  She presently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she is also in Chico often to see clients and visit her family.  
 
Maria sees true beauty in people expressing their inner wisdom and authentic self-expression with their bodies, fashion, communication, and living spaces.  She has experienced many cultures and sacred traditions in her travels, each having unique expressions of both inner and outer beauty, which inspire her clearing and organizing work today.  Maria brings her clients’ beauty to the world through alignment with their own unique expression.  To do so clears away the "stuff" in their spaces that has masked their essence beneath confusion, disorganization, and dysfunction, both physically and energetically.
 
In her services, Maria integrates multiple modalities of clearing, creativity and alignment, including traditions and rituals of Feng Shui, Native American Ceremonies, intention setting, crystal altars, and more.  She attunes each modality to honor her clients’ essence and support their goals.  By combining these sacred traditions with modern, practical programs, she supports people in clarifying what truly brings them joy.  She loves to bring function, flow and beauty to each space, which she holds as essential for feeling aligned in life, home, and business.

Faith Parks

Senior Designer

 

Faith Parks, Designer, Speaker and Business Woman is a visionary leader with creative strategic thinking that has allowed her to recognize and capture emerging markets.  Consistent a top producer in private industry and Fortune 500 corporations, and has a proven track record in design, sales and corporate branding. Ms. Parks is committed to excellence and was awarded Designer of the Year Solano County 2007 and Design Firm of the Year Solano County 2007, as well as managing multi-million dollar design projects to budget and holding to construction schedules.  She is also an Inspirational and motivational public speaker and has been invited to speak at institutions such as UC Irvine to women emerging into the market place.

 

Ms. Parks design experience includes over a 1000 projects either as the owner of her design firm, Faith Parks Designs, or with such prestigious semi-custom builders such as Taylor Woodrow and production builder KB Homes. She has experience in both commercial and residential construction design and has Universities, Surgical Centers, Retail space, Live Work Multi Unit high rise buildings, Spas, Estates, Single Family and much more in her portfolio of projects.


Ms. Parks is a Mother, Grandmother and a world traveler.  She is currently an active participant in many affiliations including several Chamber of Commerce in the region, National Association of Women in Business (N.A.W.B.O.) and most recently, A.P.B in El Dorado Hills. 

Accepting Sping 2025 Clients

 Design Services by Appointment.

melissa@dolcehomechico.com

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Dolce Home & Design
66 Bellarmine CT
Chico, CA 95928

Phone: (530) 520.7126

 

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