back in the day

Jul 1, 2009 | press | 0 comments

was doing a little office cleaning this weekend when i came across my very first piece of press, the long beach press telegram, an article about ‘cool teen rooms,’ yikes!  yeah, it’s pretty hilarious, oh did i forget to mention, the ‘cool room’ in question was mine!?

long before i had any aspirations of becoming an interior designer i was thrift shopping, refinishing, recovering, and reinventing all sorts of stuff just because i loved to do it. whether is was painting pvc pipes and turning them into ‘art installations’ or taking backdrops from concerts and mirror clipping them to my ceiling, my teenage room was a sight to be seen! often my parents would wake up in the morning to yet another new and startling addition to my room. from faux finished walls, to murals with gems embedded (well, glued), cow print painted furniture, to custom sewn toss cushions cut from a vintage dress,  there was always something new to be seen. i guess i was always meant to be a designer, it just took me 2 decades to realize it! what i find really interesting is that although my resources and budgets have changed for these projects through the years, my style and design philosophy havent really changed at all – i still love a great vintage find, re-purposing a fab scrap of fabric or refinishing a piece i picked up from the local thrift shop.  the more things change, the more they stay the same i guess!

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