On Starting An Interior Design Business
In 2001, I moved to Durham NC from New York City, where I had attended Parsons School of Design while working as a fly on the wall for the firm of French architect and interior designer Robert Couturier. The geography change prompted me to fine-tune an ability to merge a variety of interior styles and settings. This required a shift from my work for urban clients needing careful space planning for compact city apartments to a Southern traditional client trying to fill rooms with furniture that didn’t look like it was all purchased at once. As Raleigh and Durham have gained attention and attracted transplants from the West and Northeast coasts for their pace of life, opportunity, and cost of living, it feels like the genre of my work (and of the area) could easily be called The Modern South.
The cornerstone of my business is full-service “Turn-Key” design, which is exclusively available for projects of at least 1,200 sf or more needing design, furnishing, and decoration. The name "Turn-Key Service" is derived from the idea of a project so carefully managed that a client could (and often does!) leave town and return to a fully finished, furnished space. This service is definitely not of value to the DIY home-decorating maven, but is of great value to one who...
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