Susan M. Jamieson is an award-winning interior designer and founder of the Richmond, Virgina-based Bridget Beari® brand: Bridget Beari Designs, Bridget Beari Colors paints, Bridget Beari Papers wallpaper, and Bridget Beari Home Store. 

With over three decades of experience as an interior designer, Susan is acclaimed for crafting comfortably elegant, subtly layered, and exceptionally tailored spaces. Her guiding belief is that the best-designed homes are those that reflect, inspire, and enhance the unique personalities and lifestyles of the people who live in them. With degrees in both Interior Design and Art History, she is fluent in a broad spectrum of design periods and styles, with projects spanning from historic Southern restorations to contemporary Mexican retreats.

Susan’s designs, products, and advice have been featured in publications including Coastal Living, ELLE Décor, House Beautiful, LUXE Interior+Design, Southern Living, Traditional Home, and more. Bridget Beari Home Store was named one of Architectural Digest’s “Home Decor Stores to Shop Now and Always.” A recurring guest designer on the television series Fix It and Finish It, her designs have also appeared on HGTV, TLC, and NBC. Her much anticipated first book, BRIDGET BEARI COLOR RULES: A Guide to Choosing and Using Color at Home, will be released in October 2025.

The Bridget Beari® Colors line offers 200 richly pigmented paint colors curated into four signature designer palettes. Bridget Beari® Papers presents a breadth of fanciful to sophisticated wallpaper patterns designed to coordinate with the Colors collection. Bridget and Beari were Susan’s rescue dogs, and a portion of all Colors and Papers proceeds is donated to animal care and rescue organizations.

A passionate philanthropist, Susan was named Richmond’s “Woman of the Year for the Arts” for leading the city’s largest outdoor public art exhibit, which raised more than $300,000 for multiple charities, including the American Lung Association and Cancer Research organizations. She continues to support and participate in fundraising efforts nationwide, often donating paint and wallpaper to benefit charitable causes. Susan travels the country sharing her insights and love of design. She lives in Richmond, VA with her husband and their menagerie of rescue animals.