7 days to 32

This has been crazy busy, emotionally draining, exciting year. I will be 32 next week; December 16. I don't make too much of a fuss about my birthday. I've gotten over the malicious competition of my birthday and Christmas; Christmas wins! If friend's and family want to do something for me, great, if not, I'm okay with that too. Reflecting over these last 12 months I've grown a lot! I am wow'd by my own strength and my accomplishments. I worked my behind off with: decor, going to school, my day job, dealing with personal issues, being financially drained and exhausted, oddly enough 31 turned out great! 

I am really focusing on J.G.W. Decor.  I've been looking into events and workshops to help broaden my knowledge about interior design.  I'm going to a huge networking event in Las Vegas next month for interior designers, builders, and architects. I'm investing in myself and my business. I want more exposure and bigger projects! 

With all that said, I look forward to being a year older, wiser and brighter.  I think for my birthday I may treat myself to a day of girlish luxuries and a new wrist accessory. 

-J

Official Logo

I am so excited to share my official logo for J.G.W. Decor.  I did some research and asking around about who should design my logo and how much I should invest. The best advice I got was to do my logo myself; free of charge! Who better than to design it myself? I knew what I wanted so I just started drafting and playing around with fonts and here it is. 

I was so excited I ordered logo stickers =)  Branding is everything! 

- J 

*Updated!* Cover Girl [Before Pictures Added]

I had the pleasure of working with a friend of mine on her entire first floor of her lovely condo nestled in the Oakland Hills. We first started talking about me doing her place Spring of last year (I think) just discussing ideas about how she wanted her place to look and feel. My client is a very beautiful woman and when you see her she's very well put together - she has a great sense of style and a very sweet personality; hence the title of her space "Cover Girl". 

This was the biggest project I've done thus far. I was a little intimidated by the size of the space and number of rooms; It took an entire weekend to complete.  Thankfully I had my buddy Daniel by my side and Contractor Elliot to help bring this all together.  I cannot do this alone!!

We love how the colors came together with the blues and subtle pops of green in the accent pillows. The walls are painted in a grey color by Sherwin Williams. I convinced my client to take a risk by choosing  dark colors for the wall and painting her doors black with a luster. Later I will post the before photos as you'll see how I made the space more modern traditional with tan and red walls! SOOOOO early 2000's! I'm so over the deep reds and neutral tan walls (make it stop!).

Sorry I haven't blogged since April. A lot has changed and I had not made the time to sit down and write. I hope to post more. Thank you so much for reading!

- J 

Before Photos