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Hi everyone, so this is my first real blog post and I plan to talk about a bunch of different stuff relating to Interior Design, ranging from sustainable design (WELL, LEED, innovative design practices) to my school work, to designers and architects that inspire me.
Background
I guess to jump right in and start with, my name is Stephanie and I currently am in school getting my BA in Interior Design. Interior design is one of those things for me that I found myself liking really early on and I just keep working on it. Whenever I was younger and we would go to restaurants that had paper and crayons on the table I would always find myself drawing the space around me and sketching the different textures of materials and things. I also never used to think of myself as being any good at the arts; having friends that could draw and create paintings with ease always made me think "man I wish I could do that, that seems like such a cool skill to have" and I would try to draw and paint but it never seemed to match the idea in my head.
"I had always wanted to be artistic, and creative, but it seemed to escape me"
High school
So High school rolled around, and I don't know about everywhere else but we had to take one mandatory arts credit in school. I knew that if I took a visual arts class it wouldn't be anything special so I opted for drama class because it seemed less embarrassing- I was SO wrong- and I thought I would make friends- Which I did-. I also was bent on doing the opposite of what all of my friends were doing, which was going into the family studies classes and taking that robot baby home, and doing all of those fun things. It was kind of funny to see the other girls faces when I told them I was taking the integrated technology class instead of family studies, and when school started in September, I walked down the stairs to the tech wing which resided in the basement of the school and prepared to see how much I enjoyed it. I won't lie and say I wasn't beyond nervous, I was walking into a class where as far as I knew I didn't know anyone and didn't know if there would be other girls.
As I looked at room numbers as I passed, I finally found the one I was looking for; and outside was a stern looking man, who had to obviously be the teacher. I peeked my head in the room and saw only some boys that looked as uncomfortable as I felt. I asked the teacher if this was the right room and he told me it was so I nodded and went inside, I -thankfully- saw a guy I knew and sat with him. As people filled in, I very very quickly noticed I was in fact the only girl and I had to deal with that. I felt this strong need to prove myself in that class, and made a point to try and get on the teachers good side. About halfway through the semester we started using a program called 3D house builder (or something similar) and it introduced me to designing floor plans. I guess I impressed my teacher enough that he introduced me to the drafting and design teacher, who pretty much became my favorite person. He helped me a lot while I was in high school with my drafting skills, and taught me AutoCad. That was pretty much it for me, I knew then that this was something I wanted to do more than any other interest I had. This has led me here, and I am incredibly excited to see what comes next.
"I knew it was something I wanted to do more than any other interest I had"
#Design
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