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  • “The Design at your Doorstep dossier? My friends are still drooling.” – B., Vancouver, BC

    • Manifest
    • Design 101
  • I design for the senses. Especially the ears.

  • Previously:

    • Freeing Your Voice + Finding Your Melody
    • Rental Purgatory, You Say?
    • Are You Ready? I’m About to Rock Your Rental
    • Holla. A Little on the Madness that was March. Er, Winter.
    • ‘Decorating’ & Unraveling the Cringe Factor
    • The Dichotomy of Design
    • Jack Move
    • Style vs. Substance
    • I See Music – Kashmir
    • Design and the “You Hired What?!” Syndrome

Erica

Exposure is sexy.
Restraint is refined.
Here’s my position, my process and my philosophy.
If you’re turned on, we should talk.

The first thing you need to know: design is an entirely subjective experience.

The second thing you need to know: I nail silver soup tureens to walls, and call it art.

One client referred to my aesthetic sensibility as “contemporary meets fuck-you antique.” Another praised my “meth-amphetamine mind.”

I call myself a one-woman design distillation factory.

I refine, reflect and strip down the style file echoing inside your head. Your aesthetic anthem. Your visual theme song. The one you hear, loud and clear, but can’t articulate – let alone translate into textiles, ceiling trim and furniture.

Interior design isn’t about empty accessorizing. It’s about making conscious choices to create tangible spaces that evoke memories, engage endorphins, and electrify your daily life.

You’re busy, and you know it. You don’t want to languish in the clearance aisle at IKEA with glazed eyes and a shopping cart full of questionable shag carpeting. You just want a home that makes you tremble, every time you step through the doorway.

So let’s make some sweet music together.

And let’s start today.

©2012 Erica Swanson Design