I create space to breathe, ambience, conscious living. I create interiors. Interior Design has been my passion since 1992. I’ve had the good fortune to work on palatial estates and bachelor pad apartments, corporate offices and single-family homes, super-yachts and kids’ playrooms. From high-end luxury to penny-pinching budget-conscious, from Palm Beach traditional to Miami Beach modern and everything in between, each project is a fascinating puzzle.
I have a Bachelors degree in Interior Design from Florida State University. I’m a Florida Registered Interior Designer, and currently living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I’ve sung with rock bands, jazz ensembles and choruses, performed in ballet recitals and modern dance “happenings,” and acted in plays, sketches, and musical theatre productions. I have lived art in most forms all my life, and interior design has been a natural extension of my artistic life since I discovered it in college, after giving up the music school and contemplating the communications school. I even threatened my mother with learning how to weave baskets and sell them in the park as a possible career path, but interior design won out. (My mother is eternally grateful. So am I.)
Architecture and Interior Design grabbed me and wouldn’t let go. From that point on, I gleefully studied buildings and furniture, spaces; how they’re used and how they make you feel. I’ve immersed myself in spaces and places from New York City to L.A., Omaha, Nebraska to Sedona, Arizona. I have a tendency to turn over chairs to see how they’re made, scrunch my toes into carpets, straighten the pictures on the wall, and listen intently to the desires and aspirations of people who want to live in harmony and joy with their surroundings, but just don’t know how to do it.
As I have grown as a designer, a mom, an entrepreneur, and a world citizen, I’m also finally starting to mesh my eco-consciousness with my design practice. For a long time, Interior Design and the Green Movement seemed to be incongruous, but no longer. (Yes, I own a pair of Birkenstocks, and no, I don’t wear them to meetings.) I consider it my professional responsibility to integrate sustainable products and finishes whenever and wherever I can (without being too pushy or militant about it), so that my clients don’t have to think about it. I believe that sustainability will become the new Normal, but not without effort from the people that make these choices and selections. Honestly, when was the last time you wondered whether your desk chair was ergonomic? It’s just a given, not some special feature. Sustainable products and manufacturing will get there too, eventually. I intend to do my part to help that along.
That’s why I’m here. To help you achieve the home or office of your dreams, whether it’s the full enchilada, or one room at a time. Sometimes, you just need a little push. Sometimes you just need a little moxie. You can have some of mine.
