Museum curator-turned-design consultant, Donna Grace McAlear takes a strategic approach to residential interior design, combining a breadth of influences from her international career as a fine art curator with a highly developed aesthetic. Her museum experience anchors her firm – New Mood Design – as a discerning and forward-thinking design consultancy. It also inspires her work with clients, She creates purpose-designed interior motifs that spatially and visually harmonize with architectural settings. New Mood Design's work has been featured in "Atlanta Modern Luxury" and "Kitchen TRENDS." TRENDS magazine named New Mood Design a designer of a "TRENDS Top 50 American Kitchen 2012-2013."

Since 2004, New Mood Design has offered Donna Grace’s extensive track record to successfully shepherd design projects from conception through completion. A problem solver, first and foremost, with a passion to source distinctive products, worldwide, she leads her firm through cerebral creativity, balancing big-picture concepts with flair and attention to detail. Because she’s managed hundreds of museum exhibitions and multiple museum building projects, Donna Grace can flesh out the scale and scope of a space – both exterior and interior finishes – and masterfully cull and blend architectural finishes, furnishings, lighting and hardware to create an atmospheric experience that transcends the merely material for her clients.