There’s something special I want to share with everyone! This month my work was featured in Lake Norman Magazine, and a living room I did is on the cover! Check it out on www.lakenormanmagazine.com.
This was a great honor, and a really great experience. Both the photographer and the writer were amazing, and the writer titled the article “Storied Style”. I’ve been thinking about that title a lot - I think it is something all of us can use when we are decorating.
First of all, you might have a lot of questions about interior design, hiring a professional, and wondering how it all works. There are many different settings that designers function in and many ways designers are used. In school, I got to design a $35,000.00 dining room!
Although it was fun and the furniture was very beautiful, that is certainly not for the average person! Designers can charge a flat fee for a project, charge by the hour, or use their professional discounts and charge their clients the “sticker price” and their fee is the difference.
Although I would be happy to design your entire space, the biggest need I see is to help the average person to get to where they want to be in their home (both inside and outside), office, or rental house.
Maybe you are selling your home, and you need some staging for curb appeal. Perhaps you are having a holiday family dinner, open house, birthday party, wedding or other event that you need some help decorating for. In any event, I do consultations and charge an hourly fee to point you in the right direction; because my passion is to TEACH people some principles of design so they can transform their space into what they want it to be. After all, who has time to look at 1200+ rugs online and possibly make a decision without seeing it!?
Someone said to me recently “your house is so beautiful, my house could never look like this!” I chuckled because the point of the designer is NOT to have your house look anything like theirs! There are many stages of life that we go through. I recently met someone that had 6 children. That home needs extreme durability and no “glassy things” in reach of little ones; as opposed to the “empty nesters” that have a vacation home in the mountains. Or our aging parents that now need safety and security in their home …and maybe their memories on display close by.
Which brings me back to “Storied Style”. I love that title because that truly is the goal in interior design. It is to tell your story, or to start a completely new chapter, in a harmonious and pleasing way (on a budget, of course!).
Don’t know where to start? I can help!