Growing up in a large family with humble beginnings, I learned early in life how to be resourceful. Weather it be outside helping in the garden, helping my dad build or fix things, or inside studying my mom as she sewed and made things for her children. It was there my love for design, style and being creative grew. I would learn to sew, stitch and reimagine scrap pieces of fabric with my mother at the kitchen table, and how to handle a paintbrush, tools, and repair or build things in our shop alongside my father. As a teen, I really explored my creativity and constantly re-arranged my bedroom and covered the walls in anything that interested me, working with very little resources and my big imagination.
When i entered my adult life, I took a job working at a furniture manufacturing company and worked my way through various departments, led by my curiosity for how things were made. I would later find my way into project estimating, and project coordinator. Soon after, i received my accreditation for Home Staging. Once I finally lived on my own, my skills and creativity would be employed by styling my own apartment, while realizing i had little, to no money to do it. I operated on a “beg, steal, borrow” (not actually stealing) system, and picking up unwanted items, bartering online, and picking up things on the side of the road that I could see had another life in them that had yet to be imagined. Spending as little as i could to improve and reimagine something, and ending up with a space i loved to be in. I still operate this way today. I always believed style wasn’t only obtainable for the wealthy, or people with a big budget. I’ve created this blog to highlight that with a little imagination, elbow grease, using what you already have, anyone can have a space they love without breaking the bank.
Eddy
DIY Home Staging 