"Whatever you are, BE A GOOD ONE."

- Abraham Lincoln

I feel ridiculously lucky to have worked primarily with products and brands I've been passionate about. I've amassed a deep knowledge of interior design through my education, natural curiosities (let's be honest, obsessions), friendships and work history.  Below is a timeline of the big moments which led me here.

SHORT-ISH STORY

I discovered the magic of what I could create with my mother's sewing machine in junior high and my love of textiles began. As life went on, I realized I had a particularly accurate connection with colors and could remember specifics others couldn't.  I am a visionary with strong design instincts. 

I'm a Bay Area native who graduated from Cal Berkeley in 2000. I started out in corporate retail in San Francisco before realizing I was not meant for the world of apparel. I enjoy clothes, but I didn't live and breathe BR Accessories or Gap Body. I began interior design school via UC Berkeley Extension immediately after this realization and completed twenty courses in the Interior Design + Interior Architecture program. While attending school at night, I was on my merry way to a role in marketing with a luxury furniture brand based here in SF, called McGuire Furniture Co. This also is where I learned how to create furniture construction documents with the factory workers downstairs and to take a tiny furniture sketch into a full product launch. 

My first official role as an interior designer was at FME, an architecture firm on Montgomery Street in the Financial District. Next, I was the envy of every 20/30 something I knew when I spent three years developing complete design concepts for restaurants around the country for Puccini Group. Yes, I was paid to dine, drink, dissect the competition and design. My last stop on the road to starting my own design firm was three years building an interior design program for the gallery stores of Restoration Hardware at the home office in Marin. 

Enter stage left, the birth of my baby girl in 2013. I knew I needed more flexibility in my life so I didn't miss the important moments and get too far away from actual design. In every role that lead me to owning my own design firm, I didn't know what would come next, but I knew I had to wake up in the morning thrilled about what I would do that day.  Today, I wake up serving clients, who often turn into close friends, and obsessing over the small and big picture things that make the final product something I'm extremely proud of. Every client's taste is different and I find my own taste morphing as I have new design muses.