Giving a Fresh Start

I truly enjoy creating homes through layout and redesign—room-by-room and detail-by-detail—that my clients love. Two niche markets in which I would enjoy working in more are nurseries, and bedrooms for children and teens. Our babies and kids deserve as fresh a start, and as much support, as they can get. They also enjoy having a space they can claim as their own. The way I can contribute to their feeling of support and well-being is by creating beautiful, fun, healthy and peaceful rooms through design, layout and customized feng shui solutions, with the intention of attracting the best energy for each child's health, relationships, growth, wisdom and overall success.

Babies and kids are amazing—they're naturally curious, optimistic, relatively fearless, inquisitive and creative. Many are also intuitive and energetically sensitive. And, for better or for worse, they are learning sponges (as any parent can tell you, and give you many hilarious stories to back this up). Unfortunately, many of these traits are beaten out of them to fit into society, and the commands continue into adult life—stop daydreaming, get your head out of the clouds and your feet on the ground, be realistic, don't interrupt, follow the rules, don't ask so many questions, mind your own business, don't do that or you'll hurt yourself, I can't believe you think you can do that, how can you possibly believe that, don't be so stupid, etc, etc.

Also, fellow kids are cruel. We all have hurtful playground stories to tell—either those that happened to ourselves, or those we've witnessed.

And, kids today are up against an onslaught of environmental factors—from pollutants in our regions to pollutants in our homes and chemicals in our foods.

All this being said, I feel our babies and children deserve the best fresh start in life they can get, and I can help with their environment. Proposing room layout based on sensible design combined with their personal feng shui, they can sleep, play and study in directions that support their overall well-being—from relationships with family and friends, to their health, growth, wisdom and overall success in life. Plus, I can suggest color therapy for low-VOC wall paints, bedding, flooring, window treatments and other accessories which will look fantastic and enhance the energetic quality within their room. It's my way of giving back to a new generation of amazing, hopeful and inspiring individuals.