CREATING A GOOD VIBE HOME

Mary Edwards is a San Francisco based interior designer. She’s had a multidisciplinary background: as an artist and an interior designer who 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 your space any stage of life. Making a move to another place or just staying put brings: a greater peace of mind, a life less encumbered of maintenance and upkeep, and having a place for everything brings relief. Decluttering your space declutters your mind.

Using this simple guidebook with to-do forms and worksheets is an action plan to get started: what to keep, toss, recycle, sell, or give away. It takes time, energy, patience, focus as letting go of stuff isn’t easy. The rewards are many as a “less is more” environment brings a fresher lifestyle that you love and be proud of. Surrounding yourself with the things you love matters. Your home tells your own personal story.

When you move 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 home 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 time-line than predicted. This is why I understand the process well and have enjoyed organizing and curating 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 and plan.

Mary’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 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. She created a rug business in India and China, a home in New Zealand, and a worked on homes to a hotel development in China. Doing wellness interiors for several hospitals in the Bay Area has been a joy.

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 resilience, patience and motivation to create happy, welcoming homes that work. SpaceLifting homes has been my passion and mission. Presently designing my SpaceLift book is a longtime dream come true to share a variety of interiors, stories with others.