Bio of my Business

My bio is as follows;I grew up in post-war England, in the industrial north-west, not too far from Manchester. My family was used to rationing and therefore was very careful not to waste anything. I have carried this attitude with me when I came to Canada, and didn’t realize that I was being ‘green’. It was only when I started to hear about being enviro-friendly that I realized that what I used to do, and still do, was a good thing after all.I had always wanted a career in the interior decorating field, and was too busy working in another job to actually go to school to get the education. I eventually decided that I can still do this, and I took a correspondence course to get formal training. I completed the course, with honours, and decided that I would establish myself in this field. Because of re-cycling, being energy efficient and my imagination ‘thinking outside the box’ comes easy to me. I don’t buy things if I can make them myself, or learn to make them myself. Some of my favourite shopping venues are garage sales, used furniture stores and thrift stores.My hobbies include; - furniture re-finishing, trompe l’oiel (although I am not as good as I would like to be), air brushing, crocheting, making and/or baking Christmas gifts. I have had a knack of making apartments, homes look professionally decorated, and I can see the potential of spaces, perhaps others can’t.The first home I worked on was a handyman’s special, which I renovated with a little help from my friends. When the house sold there was a 63% profit.The next house was also a ‘handyman’s special’, my new husband and I, tripled the equity in the home. Together we decorate our friends’ homes, and offer advice, when requested.I want to not limit myself to environmentally decorating homes, I also intend to be involved in small commercial properties, B&Bs, cottages, lodges, hotels, motels, offices, retreats, etc, etc. I know I will not have a new client every week, therefore I decided a natural expansion would be home staging, where it is not always necessary to purchase ‘new’ furnishings, and all that is really needed is a re-positioning, or re-purposing of items already in the home, maybe a little touch-up or cleaning.People have been re-cycling for many years; they just call it collecting ‘antiques’ ‘retro’‘Remember whens’. Just like a song they haven’t heard for a while, or the smell of fresh baked bread, so too can furniture pieces bring back warm memories.