Mary Bell is the “Bell” of BellReed Designs. She founded the company in 1998 under the name of CC Designs. When her son Troy became a partner in 2006, the name was appropriately changed to BellReed Designs.

Mary has over 26 years of experience in construction and design. Her career began unexpectedly while she was working for a large brokerage firm in the Northeast as the senior underwriter for oil and gas, representing Lloyd’s of London. As the brokerage firm grew and acquired more companies, it found itself in possession of several buildings to maintain, many of them vacant, which was a great expense to the firm. Mary suggested the firm simply fix up the buildings and sell them to make a profit. The next morning, the firm’s president put Mary in charge of remodeling the buildings. For the next 13 years, she traveled throughout the country remodeling commercial and residential properties for the firm. Seeing her success and realizing that remodeling was her calling, she left the firm in pursuit of her dream of designing luxury residential kitchens and baths.

Since becoming a designer, Mary has studied kitchen and bath design with the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), has trained kitchen designers for a “big-box” retailer where she ranked as their #2 salesperson and has designed kitchens and baths for clients in Texas, Colorado, South Carolina, Georgia, California, Hawaii, the Cayman Islands and Mexico. Her projects included the remodeling of an old hotel in Colorado that she reverted into artist studios.

When Mary opened CC Designs in 1998, her intention was to develop a one-stop shop, where clients could receive expert design, top quality products and appliances and in-house construction services all under one roof. When her oldest son Troy joined the company as a partner in 2006, Mary saw this dream recognized. She and Troy had already been working together for over 13 years and the partnership only served to make the company stronger and more successful. Together they have conquered remodeling projects in homes as new as five years old to those as old as fifty years old. They specialize in working within the footprint of a house to make it work with the new design. Their goal is to make kitchens and baths bigger, and life for their clients better. Every room Mary designs is intended to become a signature kitchen or bath, one that leaves the viewer in awe and wondering, “Who designed this beautiful room?” 

Mary is a true renaissance woman. In addition to designing dream kitchens and baths, she is a glass and metal artist who creates stained panels, carved glass and metal designs that are sometimes incorporated into a remodeling project. She owned a glass studio in Evergreen, Colorado, where she lived prior to moving to Houston in 1994. She is also a certified ski instructor, a pilot who built her own airplane in her den, a mother of 4 and a grandmother of 8. She also has three Yorkie dogs named Cie Cie, Be Be and Sophie, who will greet you at the door when you visit the BellReed Designs showroom.