For me, the new year doesn’t start until February — my birthday month! Sure, I enjoy ringing in the new year on January 1st, but February feels like the real opportunity for new beginnings for me.
You could say I’ve always liked to do things a bit differently.
To ring in this new year, I’m excited to launch the One of A Kind Interior Design blog! This blog is a space where I can tell you more about myself, showcase client success stories, and share my insights on interior design in Denver. I’m excited to invite people like you into my process to share what makes my approach to design One of a Kind.
To start this off, I want to take it back to the beginning when I first fell in love with interior design.
I’ve been an interior designer since I was six years old.
Every other week, I’d become inspired to completely rearrange and restyle my bedroom. To support my passion, and save himself from having to move my furniture every week, my dad built me a Barbie dreamhouse out of PVC pipes. This was a place where I could let my imagination run wild and design as much as I pleased. I’d change the construction of the walls and rearrange the rooms, following my inspiration to build worlds out of PVC pipes.
I put my amateur design career on hold to go to college in Miami. I chose to study sports medicine because I didn’t realize interior design was something I could do as a career.
Inevitably, my love for design followed me to campus. A few months into school, I started a side gig redesigning friends’ dorm rooms. I wasn’t interested in following the latest trends in magazines or on TV. I created spaces inspired by the vibrant and passionate people who lived in them. I’d go out of my way to make sure each design was one of a kind.
Soon enough, a friend of mine took notice and asked why I wasn’t studying interior design at school. When I started to look into switching majors, I realized that interior design was where I belonged. I made the change, took the leap, and started studying the thing I’d always loved.
My career in interior design started there — in college, in that program.
It was there that I learned color theory and the value of creative problem solving. I honed in on my style and built the skills to design bold, one of a kind spaces.
I didn’t know at the time that this education would take me from the vibrant streets of Miami to the open skies of Colorado, but I’m so grateful it did. Every step along the way, from building rooms out of PVC pipes to redesigning dorm rooms in Miami, brought me to where I am today — with my own business, doing interior design that is as bold and unique as the clients I get to work with everyday.
You know I’ve always liked to do things a bit differently and at One of a Kind Interior Design, I get to do it alongside clients across Denver everyday.
