Emma has loved home design for as long as she can remember. From painting walls and rearranging furniture in her bedroom as a child, designing her first remodel project as a teenager (her bathroom she shared with her brothers), and spending her entire adulthood thus far working in interior and architectural home design both personally and professionally, Emma’s passion for bringing thoughtful, artful design and efficiency to life throughout the home is insatiable.
The majority of Emma’s interior design education comes from experience, observation, and extensive self-study. A natural eye for color and balance has helped, but a lot of time spent in trial-and-error and experimentation has gone a long way. She enjoys dabbling with the trends, but mostly sticks with the time-honored traditional finishes you’ll find in every decade of home. She loves to honor a home’s architecture by staying true to its roots with its interior while finding ways to incorporate the style a homeowner feels most at home in.
Emma’s architectural design education has come through formal education in a university Virtual Design and Construction program and through experience working as a drafter and designer at a residential structural engineering firm. Working on hundreds of projects, Emma learned a lot about aesthetically pleasing homes as well as the best ways to construct them. This combined with building her own homes and farm buildings, renovating her parents’ homes, remodeling investment properties, and working on client projects have lent her a wealth of experience in both design and construction and how they intertwine. Emma does not design homes that can’t be built- structural considerations are a crucial part of every phase in the design process.
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