My Kirkland’s Interior Designer Nina James
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Well, skipping over the boring stuff…as life sometimes happens, I ended up graduating college with a degree in Business Administration focused in finance. I’d been in retail sales for years, but my first post-college real job was in the corporate office of a bulk candy franchise where part of my job was to teach others how to put together gift baskets and retail display. Come to think of it, so many of my best experiences up to that point revolved around “presentation”….retail displays, set design for theater, etc. At any rate, after leaving
there, I spent the next 15 years as a top-selling media sales executive and eventually into sales management. Along the way and because I had a knack, I began to educate myself in the discipline of interior design, decorating and staging. I would work on spaces of friends and family as my hobby and loved every minute of it! At one point, I was able to complete instruction and become certified in Redesign and Home Staging through the National Redesign Institute.
What I’ve come to learn about interior design and decorating is that it is another form of art expression, although, yes, there are rules and regulations that guide creative decisions for a space. I can’t draw, sing, or beat my sister at ANY video game, but I do know what makes a room make sense and how to create a sense of balance, function, comfort and beauty. Apply that with my practical experience in tiling, laying floors, painting, etc. and you’ve got yourself one heck of a hard working, self-taught, can-do former media executive turned designer. Who knew?!
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