Davis Interiors, Ltd. was founded in 1955 by Rex Davis as a small upholstery and boat top business. Over the years it has grown into what is now the oldest shipboard habitability contractor in business. Today the company is run by the second and third generations of the family and is the largest woman-owned shipboard habitability business.
Our facility is located in Norfolk, VA, home of the largest naval installation in the world. We employ our own staff of upholsterers, seamstresses, painters, sheet metal workers, welders, wall covering installers, and floor covering installers. Our employees have been with us an average of 25 years or more, which allows us to apply an vast collection of experience in operations and in employee training to every project. Davis Interiors, Ltd. is a Certified Lean Enterprise and we’re in the process of receiving our ISO-9000 designation for Quality Management. With a sheet metal shop, paint shop, sewing room, upholstery shop, design staff and warehouse, we can service virtually any shipboard habitability need.
We’ve become well-known throughout the US Navy for the unwavering quality of our services. We have the necessary skills to meet the rigid standards set for the interior spaces of military ships and we provide superior work and service in every application, whether it’s furnishing a wardroom, revitalizing a mess deck or building a new desk for the captain’s cabin. We can design a space that is functional, comfortable and aesthetically pleasing while conforming strictly to NAVSEA specifications.
With the crew’s comfort always in mind, Davis Interiors has designed many first-ever accommodations for Navy ships, including the first theater with stadium seating on the USS Reagan and the first shipboard Baskin Robins ice cream parlor in1982 on the USS L.Y. Spear. Our work is functional, durable and pleasing to the eye, such as the the table pictured here, which is actually a metal table faced with a wood pattern laminate to meet shipboard specs.
Some of our other projects include:
USS Ronald Reagan Chaplin’s Complex, the Ship’s library and Ship’s Learning Center and XO’s Cabin.
USS Kearsarge Crew Dining Facility, Wardroom, Wardroom lounges and Wardroom Meeting Room.
USS Carl Vincent and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Ship’s Museums
Davis Interiors, LTD takes pride in making every project meet the requests of our customers. We listen to your needs and design the project to meet your specifications.
Community Service
Since its inception, Davis Interiors, Ltd. has played a major role in the Hampton Roads and Navy communities. We have provided donations services for The US Naval Supply CorpAuction, the d’Art Center, Norfolk Collegiate School, The Williams School, Church of the Good Shepherd, Lee’s Friends, and the Junior League of Norfolk-Virginia Beach. Our seamstresses sew teddy bears for the Junior Circle members of the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters to give to patients at the hospital. In the past ten years, we have sewn over 700 bears.
Davis Interiors, Ltd. contributed in the campaign to benefit the USS Wisconsin when it became a designated historical site in our home city of Norfolk.
We are committed to actively contributing to the communities we serve. Norfolk has been our home since 1955, thus we strive to always be a good corporate citizen.
