I have always been passionate about home design. I remember as a child going to my grandmother’s house and scouring her Veranda and House Beautiful magazines. As a teenager this love grew into obsessively playing the SIMS and using cheat codes to build amazing houses and buy Eames chairs. As an adult, my husband and I bought a fixer-upper in Portola Valley. After four years in the house, and a few starts and stops with various designers and architects, we decided to just do it ourselves. After years of research, Pinterest, showroom visits, and sketching plans on graph paper, we went for it. I was lucky to have a husband and a builder that trusted me. Now it is my calling.