WELCOME TO SWATTS & CO’s BLOG
Another blog about interior design?! Does the world need another one of those? Blogs are so 2009...who reads them anyway?!
Yes. Probably not. Apparently, a lot of people.
Let’s be honest, not even I want to read solely about interior design and decorating a house and I love it enough to make it into a business.
Hence why here we plan to talk about design (mind blown, right?), fashion, family, and travel…sometimes we might be overachievers and talk about all those at once.
A lot of people wonder how someone who has spent their entire adult life in healthcare and has a masters degree in Anesthesia starts an interior design business.
One can of spray paint at a time, my friends.
Seriously though, almost anything can be made better with a can of spray paint.
If we aren’t counting my high school room decorating skills (which my friends loved, but won’t get me any clients now), my obsession with design started my first year in college refinishing furniture in my apartment living room. (I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this- I am probably going to die of lung cancer). My shtick was (and still is to an extent) finding old treasures, and re-finishing them.
Despite believing there are more things to life than a pretty house, something about design and the creative process has drawn me back toward it for the past 20 years, hence finally starting my own business and diving in two years ago.
Furniture morphed into smaller house renovations, which morphed into larger total gut job renovations for ourselves, which morphed into working with local builders and people paying me to design and coordinate their renovations and solve their design conundrums.
Somehow, I’ve accomplished everything in my life that I never wanted to…when I was in high school, I said I wanted to do anything but science. Cough cough…and then gets a degree in anesthesia and decides everything but science is boring.
After being immersed in science for years, I had zero interest in running a business. Actually, I had less than zero interest. Like negative interest, if that’s a thing. The only business idea I’ve ever come up with was to provide in-home anesthesia services for the first post-partum poop (and while I really think there’s a market for this, the liability involved didn’t seem appealing among other things).
So now here I am running a business. I’ve since stopped saying there are things I don’t want to do, because who knows where I’ll end up next.
Until then, I’ll just keep making clients furiously happy in their homes here in Grand Rapids and maybe putting a few people to sleep on the side.