Welcome Reader,

I started my career as an interior designer 15 years ago because I believe that living in beautiful spaces helps you live a better life.  Since then I’ve designed over 100 primary residences, secondary residences, stores, restaurants, clubs, airplanes, and museums.  My initial philosophy is still the reason I love to design.

I’ve seen people achieve more and work more efficiently in better designed offices.   Relax and laugh together more in more intimate and personal spaces. Find greater inspiration from newly updated and designed rooms. Enjoy a celebration more because the luxury, the lighting, and the layout were just right.

My job and challenge is to figure out how a space will reflect a client’s life, how it should respond to their life, and how it will enhance their life. I want to create the perfect space for them.  Living the best possible life includes living in the best possible home….and that is different for everyone!

People initially hire me because they love my past experience.  I’ve been published multiple times, and have resources that span the globe.  However, clients rehire me because they grow to believe my philosophy and appreciate my “mantras”.  My mantras include encouraging my clients to:

· Buy the very best or the very cheapest.  If you can’t find what you want or don’t want to spend the money – go to a flea market.  Save the cash for the big important purchases, not the grey middle!

· Try never to buy a reproduction.  I believe you should buy pieces made in that period.  Antiques can be affordable – and the new furniture styles made today are outstanding.  When faking it, you always come up short.

· Don’t over design, especially don’t over decorate.  Whenever I’m having trouble with a room, I can usually take 2 or 3 things out of the room and it works better.  Less is always more.  I think rooms are more comfortable when you can see the space, see the architecture, and see the wonderful pieces in the room.

· Never use faux - faux painting, faux flowers, faux plants, faux tile, faux wood.  I beg my clients not to use them.  I think it cheapens everything in the room and the cost/time savings is minimal compared to the drastic negative effect it has on design.

· Form and function are equally important.  A purely functional room with no regard for form is just as uncomfortable as an unfunctional room.  A well designed room has both.

· Most importantly, ignore my suggestions!  A designer should never convince a client to do something they truly don’t want to do.

Overall, the most important thing for a client and a designer to remember is this is the client’s space – not the designer’s.  I want to be a guide in helping people realize their spaces’ best potential by creating something which they love, reflects their tastes and preferences, and enhances their environment.  That helps people live in the best possible home, and therefore have the best possible life!

Thank you for your time and interest.

Sincerely,