The number one question I get from people is “Can you come over to my house and help me decorate?”
They hear I am a trained interior designer and their wheels start turning. I get it.
And I used to always say, “Yes!” But, over time, I have changed my tune and today my canned answer is that I no longer take design clients.
Interior design has been a passion of my mine since I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are of redecorating every square inch of my room.
When I couldn’t find the right color of quilt at age twelve, I very matter a factly declared that I would need to custom MAKE said quilt and proceeded to learn to sew!
I loved doing art all through school and competed in several art shows in high school and college.
I got accepted into the international student program at the London Guildhall University and completed my interior design degree.
Then, my husband and I started a commercial/ residential painting company and, of course, I start taking design clients. There were all kinds of budgets and styles and people to work with.
But, my favorites were the ones where we re-made what the client had and brought out of the story of the person’s life. Vintage farmhouse styles always made my heart sing.
In school you are taught that to be a good interior designer you need to be able to please any kind of client and rock any kind of style.
But, while I learned a lot of valuable information and formulas and I’m sure, gained a lot of confidence, in some ways the artistic side of me was getting lost.
Have you noticed? Some of the best decorators I know do not have a design degree. Joanna Gaines, anyone? Marian Parsons, Liz Marie Galvan (Correction- Liz does have a design degree, but has never taken clients) ??
What they do have is a focus and an fine tuned ability to hear their own heart when they design. This is what I began to see was missing for me.
What I really wanted to do was specialize. I wanted to get really good with one look and be known for it. And I wanted to help the women who would probably never hire me, but love interior design and wanted to be more confident in their own homes.
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This is where the blog comes in. I didn’t know it at the time, but this platform would become the perfect way for me to reach the woman who loves her home, but feels like a lack of confidence in decorating. This is where I hope to take her hand and walk her through what I have learned.
