Hi! I'm Niki, and I'm addicted to thrifting leather. I confess, ever since I found this jacket years ago, I never bought a new leather piece of clothing again. I have a couple leather jackets & skirts that I purchased at second hand stores that have lasted for years. They are my favorite part of fall!
It is officially the last week of summer and I don't know about you but I'm super excited about it. I love summer but nothing beats the coziness of fall in North Carolina. Here are six things I want to share this week! An awesome Raleigh tile resource, African art celebration at NC Art Museum, a fun DIY and more...
I'm so excited to bring back my Artist Spotlight series! I couldn't be more thrilled to have Christa be the first interview of this year. Her spirit is just as amazing as her work! I met her last year at Blogalicious. We connected because she had just left her public health position to pursue art full time, and wanted to know more about how interior designers work with artists. She has such a vibrant personality and amazing testimony. Her tenacity to make art that's true to her while building a lifestyle of her dreams is truly inspiring. Her new collection "On Changing my Mind" is available at www.christadavid.com. And you may recognize her work from my bedroom tour video! I'm such a fan. Let's get into the interview!
As I mentioned yesterday, there is no formula to becoming an interior designer. Every designer I know has a different story about how they got to where they are now.
There are, however, some common threads that I have noticed between all of their stories, and I want to share them for aspiring designers out there!
I recently realized that I have never shared my story of how I became an interior designer here on the blog. I get asked this question constantly by aspiring designers, and quite frankly, there is no short answer to give! This long story starts back in 2007. I was a senior at UNC Chapel Hill and after years of preparing to go to medical school, the reality set in that I was graduating in a few months and I did NOT want to apply...
So much of the time, electronic companies just give us a slight update to the last model, and before we can get too comfortable with what's state of the art, they introduce a new shinier better thing. That leaves us with buyer's regrets and dissatisfaction with our freshly sub-par tech.
That's not the case with the latest TV release from Samsung! This fusion of art & technology is a game changer that I wish I could purchase for all the projects I design!
This week I completed another model apartment for Level Five Designs. This is the 4th model apartment install I've done in less than 2 months, and I have to say that this probably went the smoothest of them all! I can't wait to see it professionally photographed!
