
be a rule-breaker
I am not a trained designer. My degree is in musical theatre, not interior design. Decorating became my creative outlet when I hung up my tap shoes and tucked away the pancake makeup. I’ve studied decorating by reading home decor books, shelter magazines, watching HGTV, and by a lot of doing and redoing. The nice thing about that is I don’t have to worry about all of the things that are proper and conventional and “right” that I would’ve learned had I studied formally. I just do what I like. I don’t always arrange things in odd numbers. (Gasp!) I often mix more than three patterns. (Double gasp!) And I have no trouble mixing shades of blue. (The horror!) There are all of these decorating rules floating around…don’t paint a small room a dark color, don’t combine this color with that one, use red in every room, use black in









