PORTFOLIO

When I decided to switch careers from television production to interior design, I knew I already had a talent for aesthetics and could execute a vision. But it was a messy process. I was fairly clueless about a professional order of operations; I just knew it existed and that I needed to learn it. But with three very young kiddos and a husband who consistently traveled and was building his own company, I knew I couldn’t commit to the schedule of a brick and mortar school.

So after a massive amount of research, I chose to enroll with The Interior Design Institute. Based in San Francisco and Sydney, Australia, they offered a comprehensive course completely online and self-paced. Perfect for this mama.

VALENTINE COTTAGE

Like a good TV show with an ongoing plot, the progressive course units at IDI generally centered around one massive fictional renovation: a wife and mother of two children who’s frustrated by various aspects of the ground floor of her home. It needed a complete redesign, from plumbing and electrical to traffic flow, all the way to the perfect pillows and pencil holder in the study.

Without further ado, the work I created within the school assignments’ parameters for Mrs. Catherine Valentine’s cottage…

Click to dive into the work.

Another project for The Interior Design Institute was to take on an actual client and redesign a single space in their home. My husband became my client, and our frustrating, un-done basement became the project. I had a leg up since I already knew his lifestyle and tastes, but it was the most fun to create a design that screams of who he is and to see him get pumped over wallpaper. His tastes and mine are fairly different, but I was able to create a space that truly feels like him and that flows with the rest of our home.