CREATING A GOOD VIBE HOME

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 home filled with comfort, beauty, organization, warmth and meaningful memories. Her 40 year career of working has not only been fulfilling and fun, it has also provided a creative outlet to support others to transform their own space and place that reflect their own practical,thoughtful and stylish interiors big and small. SpaceLift, a term Mary coined many years ago, offers a “face-lift for your home” depending upon your needs, timeline, and budget, in a hand-on consultation or a renovation to evaluate, move or remove unnecessary furnishings and items that no longer serve a purpose. Rightsizing and SpaceLifting are basically the same thing -it’s about changing and gaining a lifestyle that fits the stage and space that fits your stage of life. Making a move to another place or just staying put, making a move forward can bring: a greater peace of mind with less stuff, is calmer as unencumbered by maintenance and upkeep, and having a place for everything is a relief. De-Cluttering your space allows a change in your lifestyle and in return it also declutters your mind. Using a simple toolkit becomes go-to action plan to get started: what to keep, toss, recycle, sell, or give away takes time, energy, patience, focus- Letting GO of stuff isn’t easy. The rewards are many as a “less is more” environment brings a fresher lifestyle into places that you love. Surrounding yourself with things you love matters.

When you ask “How do I move and select just what’s needed for my next space and stage?”and “What do I want my new or existing place to look, function and feel like?”. The answer is usually filled with anxiety, fear and overwhelm at first. Since I’ve moved 40 or more times in my own life, I know it’s depends upon clear decision-making and often is a quicker change than time allows. This is why I understand the process well and have enjoyed organizing spaces and places for others as I’ve experienced the panic, then peace, that occurs by following and sticking to a good to-do list.

She’s 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. 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. Bringing nature’s beauty indoors add magic and greenery. Decades as a real estate agent, staging and 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.Teaching art to kids, college students at the Academy of Art University, watercolors to adults at Cavallo Point, and art to children in Africa. Her love of creating stylish and functional interiors to live/work better in has been a commitment fueled also by her own dyslexia and learning differences.I bought and redid my first home at age 21. After moving to San Francisco 40 years, ago raising a family here, first as a single, then a parent, and after divorcing, moved a dozen times as a single parent with her children that taught her reven more esilience, patience and motivation to create happy, practical and welcoming homes for them and all. Reshaping your interior during periods can be fun and does work. Mary loves to travel, play tennis, and spend time with her kids, Lizzy and Alex, who work at Salesforce.org and Presidio Trust in San Francisco.