When I was about 9 years old I remembered saving shoe boxes and collecting them so that I could use them to create room designs. I had stacks of them in my bedroom closet. I would collect anything around the house to use as furniture, I even had a collection of bottle caps to use as table tops. My mom tells me stories of finding odd objects in my pockets when she went to do the laundry, and I begged her not to throw them away. These were my eclectic treasures that would help me create my special magical palaces, as I called them.
Time went by, and I had many different interest and talents, but none that I had focused on as career. When you enter your senior year of high school, you generally have a pretty good idea of where you want to go from there. All I knew was that I wanted to do something exciting, fun and creative. Having no idea what that would be, I took my first high school art class during my freshman year in high school. I always loved all forms of art and creativity, but never thought that I could make a career out of it. So, as I sat with all my classmates in my art class, I became discouraged by their talents. As it turns out, I was fairly skilled at drawing and painting. I continued to take other art courses throughout high school and loved every one of them. I was baffled by my talent and had no idea where it came from. Both my parents are in the business field and were probably confused by my choice of elective classes.
As I discovered my creativity, I began to consider Interior Design as a potential realization of my ideas. At first, I thought that I wanted to be an interior decorator, and that there was no difference between the two professions. As I did more research on the career path, I learned about the importance of Interior Designers. The career of Interior Design is much more than pretty colors and draperies. I learned that it involves issues of life safety, environmental responsibility and even human behavior and psychology. It was the perfect combination of art and science, my two opposite academic loves.
After all these years of uncertainty, I remember the days when I was 9 years old, collecting shoe boxes in my bedroom closet. Looking back, I can see a preface for my leadership skills, my creativity, and my broad academic interests, all of which are necessary component to the career path of Interior Design. I think I knew all along what I wanted to do, I just didn’t know what to call it. With Interior Design, I get to do everything that I love and channel it all to one purpose; bettering the lives of those that I design for. I cannot wait to study math, science, psychology, art, and everything else that come with the profession of Interior Design.
