Profile

Meeting with clients and determining their interior design needs and following through on solving those needs through design so they can enjoy their personal life space in an environment that suits them best.

Meetings, meetings, meetings. Then I go back to my design studio and work through the night designing.

Social skills, problem solving, good listening skills, and interior design skills.

My schedule starts after the kiddos go to school at 9:00 and ends late night 5-7 days a week!

I travel to design conferences in NYC and I travel for jobs that are around the country for clients.

I love working with people. I thoroughly enjoy making their lives better, happier, and more functional through interior design.

Not being able to control the design industry when things come in broken, late, and wrong. I also don’t like billing.

Life, the world around me, and other designers.

Philippe Starck

Be honest and true to your clients and the client is always right! Work hard but play hard too.

Dress formally to every meeting and always push an idea even if the client is uncomfortable with it.

Follow your heart, always smile, be a good listener, and don’t take anger to bed. No matter how long you work in a career, you will always make mistakes. LOVE what you do!

Not a thing.

I play with my children, swim, and spend time with my friends and family.

It’s hard. Both my husband and I work full time and our 2 boys go to school full time so I try to make the most of early evening with them. On the weekends we plan outings and events that are just the 4 of us! We also take vacations together throughout the year to re-charge!

I have a degree in early childhood education and so I taught pre-school for 7 years but I always loved design. When I was 26, I went back to school and pursued my interior design degree. I graduated at 30 and then started working for a large architectural firm. In 2000, I took my boards, got licensed, and started my own firm.

A long one but I am so thrilled to have had my teaching degree first since I do a lot of listening and spend a lot of time with my clients talking about their personal lives, their children, and how to help them get through their own family situations. When I went back to school to study interior design, I had to spend another 4 years in school and I studied architecture as well.

I have always loved design. I used to design my room and all my friends rooms on the street where I grew up as a child. It was in my blood and I guess genetically as well. My grandmother was a designer too. As a pre-school teacher, I always had the most dynamic classroom.

Learning how to justify my hourly fees to clients and helping them understand that as much as I love interior design as a hobby, this is my profession and so I need to get paid for this professionally.