LIve well and thrive with good design

Mary has a multidisciplinary background as an artist and an interior designer, received a Bachelor of Fine arts, an Interior Design degree, and graduated from the Executive Program of Sustainability from Presidio Graduate School. She is inspired by her love of creating a “sense of place”.  Her 40 year career of working has not only been fulfilling and fun, it has also provided a creative outlet to design practical, comfortable and stylish interiors locally and globally. SpaceLift, a term Mary coined many years ago, offer a “face-lift for your home” in a hands-on consultation to evaluate, move or remove unnecessary or tired furniture and items that no longer serve a purpose. This process allows you to change your lifestyle and in return your home becomes happier and healthier.

Mary worked at multi-faceted design firms and on hundreds of projects from homes to hospitals to being part of the team that designed the interior of the International Space Station for NASA. Her father and grandfather were rocket-scientists who ignited her love of outer space, while her maternal grandfather was an architect - she was inspired by both earth and outer space design from an early age. Mary incorporates Mother Nature’s beauty by bringing the outdoors indoors with color, pattern, art, and furnishings. Bringing nature indoors, often referred to as biophilic design, incorporates live plants, natural materials as wood and stone, and maximum natural light to create calming healthier and happier living. Mary’s lifelong mission is to bridge art, aesthetics, design, and architecture to connect people to themselves, to others, their community, and to their interior spaces. Decades as a real estate agent, flipping houses for herself and clients, working and traveling locally and globally has informed and ignited her curiousity and interest in knowing how others thrive in their homes and lives. Teaching art to kids, college students at the Academy of Art University, watercolors to adults at Cavallo Point, and art to grammar school children in Africa. Her love of creating stylish, uncluttered interiors to work better in has been a commitment with her own dyslexia and learning differences. Right-sizing 14 times as a single parent with her children taught her resilience. Mary loves to travel, play tennis, and spend time with her kids, Lizzy and Alex, who work at Salesforce.org and The Presidio Trust in forestry in San Francisco.