A brief personal narrative (YouTube transcript) where the speaker credits their mother for shaping their design philosophy: making any place feel like home through intentional decorating, thrifting, and cultural immersion. The speaker emphasizes designing based on feeling rather than just appearance.
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So when my mom's major things were that every time we moved somewhere she would set up home. Like, that was her very intent. She's like, the first thing we need to do is we need to set up home. And no matter where we were in the world because we've lived everywhere, she always had magazines and she was always taking us thrifting and she was always taking us shopping to find all the ways that we could make home where we were feel like a home. So we were always immersed in different cultures and different peoples and different places and different kind of picking and choosing. So she really birthed in me the concept of design and home and experience being a feeling, not just a look. And that's kind of what we really hone in on, on our designs. We say it all the time. We design based on feeling. And that's, that's kind of. I blame her. So it's all her fault.