We are incredibly proud to share that Linda Baker, founder and president of Baker Design Group, has been named a 2026 Women in Business honoree by the Dallas Business Journal — selected from a pool of more than 200 nominees across the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and placing among the top 30 honorees recognized this year.
This recognition is a testament not only to Linda’s 30+ years of experience as an interior designer in Dallas, but to the standard of excellence, service, and leadership she has built into every corner of Baker Design Group since the firm’s founding in 2005.
What the Dallas Business Journal Women in Business Award Represents
The Dallas Business Journal’s Women in Business program is one of the most competitive business honors in North Texas. Each year, nominations pour in from across industries — finance, law, healthcare, technology, real estate, and design — recognizing women who have shaped the business community through their leadership, impact, and vision.
To be selected from more than 200 nominees and named among the top 30 honorees is a distinction that reflects not just professional achievement, but genuine, lasting influence on the Dallas business landscape. For Linda Baker and Baker Design Group, it is a recognition that has been decades in the making.
Thirty Years of Design, Leadership, and Purpose
Linda Baker is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished interior designers in Dallas, with a career that spans more than three decades and a portfolio that includes some of the most distinguished residential and commercial spaces across the DFW metroplex.
She founded Baker Design Group in 2005 with a singular belief: that great design should feel lived in, not staged. What began as a residential interior design firm has grown into one of the top interior design companies in Texas — a full-service studio offering residential design, new construction, remodels and renovations, commercial interior design, holiday and Christmas design, and Curate Florals by BDG.
Over the past ten years alone, Baker Design Group has earned more than 50 industry awards — including repeated recognition from Dallas ASID, IDS National Designer honors, and multiple DHome Best Designer awards. Linda has served as a two-term President of the Dallas Chapter of IDS (Interior Design Society) and on the IDS National Board — bringing her leadership to the design community far beyond her own firm.
Prior to founding Baker Design Group, Linda built a celebrated career in broadcasting in Houston, serving as President of the American Women in Radio and Television and earning national recognition for her sales and marketing leadership. That business acumen — combined with her extraordinary design instincts — is what has made Baker Design Group not just a creative firm, but a genuinely well-run, client-focused business.
What Sets Baker Design Group Apart as an Interior Design Company
In a crowded market of interior design companies, Baker Design Group has always stood apart through one guiding principle: complete accountability across every phase of a project.
Where many design firms stop at concept and specification, BDG manages everything in-house — from architectural review and material selections through procurement, construction management, warehousing, delivery, and final installation. Clients never coordinate a single vendor. Every contractor reports to BDG. Every piece is received, inspected, and staged before installation day. The result is a turnkey experience that is as stress-free as it is extraordinary.
This full-service model — rare among even the top interior design companies in the US — is what has earned Baker Design Group a reputation for not just beautiful spaces, but flawless execution. It is also what earned Linda Baker recognition as one of Dallas’s most impactful women in business. Running a firm of this scope, with this standard of service, is a business achievement as much as a creative one.
Commercial Interior Design Excellence Across DFW
Beyond residential work, Baker Design Group has built a significant reputation as a commercial interior designer in the Dallas–Fort Worth market. The firm has designed spaces for oil and energy companies, medical practices, financial firms, law offices, restaurants, and hospitality clients — including a long-standing relationship designing and renovating multiple Dallas Republic Title offices throughout DFW.
Linda’s background in sales, marketing, and client relationships has always informed BDG’s approach to commercial work: understanding that a commercial space is not just a room, but a brand statement, an operational environment, and a first impression all at once. That perspective — design serving business purpose — is what makes BDG one of the most sought-after commercial interior designers in Dallas.
A Firm Built on Relationships, Not Just Rooms
What the Dallas Business Journal recognized in Linda Baker is something her clients have always known: she is as much a business leader as she is a designer.
Every project at Baker Design Group begins with a genuine conversation. Linda and her team — including her daughter Heather, who has been instrumental in growing the firm’s construction and business development arms over the past 18 years — take the time to understand not just what a client wants their space to look like, but how they want to feel in it. That philosophy has built a client base that returns project after project, and a reputation that has spread well beyond Dallas.
“Luxury should feel collected, not staged” is the ethos Baker Design Group was built on. It is a belief that has guided 20+ years of award-winning design — and it is the spirit behind this recognition.
Congratulations, Linda
To be selected from over 200 nominees and named among the top 30 Women in Business honorees by the Dallas Business Journal is an extraordinary achievement — and one that reflects everything Linda Baker has poured into this firm, this industry, and this community for over three decades.
We are proud. We are grateful. And we are just getting started.
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Baker Design Group is a full-service luxury interior design firm serving Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Frisco, Prosper, Southlake, Highland Park, and the greater DFW metroplex. For more information, visit baker-designgroup.com or call 972.417.3800.