I started decorating and designing while still in junior high. My friends and family benefited from my artistic abilities and keen eye for balancing form and function or at least I'd like to think so. I'm sure my family would have been just as happy if I didn't re-arrange the living room or their bedrooms for the fifth time :) Specially moving the furniture around , that seemed to cause all sorts of problems - you'd think they'd turn on the light after dark - when in an unfamiliar room. My poor husband is now the victim of my obsession to change our environment...ten years into our marriage and he's still learning to adjust.
By the time I graduated high school my dream of pursuing a design career was put on the back-burner. My parent's, the sensible ones, wanted me to study computer science. For the next five years, I did so. I was quite unhappy but at least when I graduated I was fortunate to find employment as a Graphical User Interface engineer where I was able to channel my creative energies and combine them with my engineering background to create functional and aesthetically pleasing software programs. I think I would have gone mad had I been relegated to pure coding. As the years passed I found myself pursuing a Master's Degree in Engineering Management and enjoying success in my career but my desire to return to my first love - design was still there.
One year after graduating with an MS in Engineering Management and faced with a life changing event, my husband and I decided to go for it - start a design based business. That was seven years ago. Our business has evolved over that time. We now own roominakit.com a home decor store - which in ...
Chrissy Walsh of Harmony, FL is the grand prize winner of the Extreme Decorating July 4th Contest. The runners up are Matthew Landry and Cathy Ahner. Here’s a video of Chrissy’s extreme decorating:
Visit MyLifeTime.com to read more about the winners and to learn about the upcoming Halloween Extreme Decorating Contest.
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