About
When my husband is trying to describe me to someone who doesn’t know me yet, he’ll often use the word, “Enthusiastic.” But he says it with a tone that has them guessing that that description is possibly an understatement.
It’s just been in recent years that I discovered that I might see the world differently than most. In one of our family’s favorite movies, a line from one song says,“Every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my head,” and the way these words are played out on screen identify closely with me. I find myself in an almost constant state of wonder; that “enthusiasm” my husband mentions. I find myself, either internally or audibly, saying the word “Wow” quite often. I am regularly guilty of looking around at all the beauty that exists while driving, when I should be paying a little more attention to the road. Who wants to text and drive when you could instead be taking it all in?
This wonder or enthusiasm spills over into my professional life. My entire brain and heart get so happy when I get to listen to someone I’m working with spell out in their own terms the direction they’re hoping to take on their certain space, store, office, or entire home. I hope this doesn’t sound over the top, but I do design more with my heart than with my head. Rules and design principles exist because most of us are hard-wired to be visually and even physically drawn to certain lines or patterns or arrangements. But if there is a rule that needs to be bent in order to get to the heart of my client, then that’s what I will do every time.
At the end of the day, or at the end of a project, my motivation is picturing my client loving the end result more than they could have imagined.
Now for the standard stuff: I live and work in the vibrant community of Monroe, Georgia, living an adventure-filled life with my husband, David, and our two daughters, Shiloh and Afton. When I am not designing custom homes, renovating older homes or creating one-of-a-kind customer experiences for businesses, I am most likely belly-laughing and enjoying the simple joys of this beautiful life with those I love most.
(Named one of the 100 Most Creative People by Country Living Magazine)