of pretty things”. on the surface it’s beautiful, but it can feel shallow. my goal is to make it beautiful but also meaningful. i like to combine things that are personal, like things that you have been given from your grandmother, photographs, or things you got from a trip, and see how that ties in to something new that you buy, or the paint colors that you choose. anybody can just look in a magazine and make their house “pretty”, but the important part is that you walk into a space and it tells a story of who you are, who your family is, how you came to be, or 