KIM KIRBY
Interior design has always been a part of my life.
My great grandfather owned a successful textile manufacturing business, designing and printing high end, luxury fabrics.
His daughter, my grandmother was an interior decorator and talented painter. My mother Karen Vaughan, began her career in New York as a photography stylist and set designer.
Eventually opening her own successful interior design business.
I spent my childhood with my mother and grandmother hanging out in design studios, hunting through antique stores and tagging along with them through the beautiful homes they
created with their clients. Their knowledge and these experiences helped me develop my love of color, pattern and fabrics.
At an early age I learned how these elements combined to create powerful, comfortable and visually exciting spaces.
I chose textile design as a major in college, with art history as a minor. After school I started working in design studios schlepping coffee and eventually worked my way on to
projects as part of a design team.
At these firms I learned the business end of interior design.
I left the design studios to get married, travel and start a family. Because of my husband's second career as a professional sailor we have lived in amazing places all over the world.
When our two boys came along we always moved as a family having wonderful experiences together. Our travel has given me a broad palette to pull from in my work process.
When I decided to open my own design firm I chose to keep my business small and provide my clients with a very personalized service.
I learn about my clients, the way they live and the things they like. I am a hand's on designer, fully involved in every aspect of the job.
My satisfaction and personal success comes from creating comfortable, live-able spaces for my clients and being trusted to become a part of their world.
What makes me happy is to hear a client say that their new space "feels like home".
And that they were treated carefully and honestly and that they enjoyed the design process with me.
Like my grandmother I am also a painter. To me interior design is a process of building layers just as you do when you paint.
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