I've always believed that design is more than décor. Color, pattern, and scale have the power to transform a space — and everything you feel inside it. I knew this early on. A room wasn't just a room to me. It was a feeling.

Then for a while I went silent. I retreated into monochrome. White walls, no pattern, no color. It was a shelter that asked nothing of me, and for a period of time I needed that. My return to color began with a single 24 x 36 canvas. It was vivid and bold. It made me nervous to even bring it into my space. But when I hung it for the first time I noticed an immediate shift. A quiet sense of being restored.

That canvas had all three — color, pattern, and scale — and it changed everything. Now I design with that same standard. Every piece in this studio carries at least one — a color that stops you, a pattern that pulls you in, a scale that commands the room. Sometimes all three. That is my signature and why I design for impact.