Decorating questions have you stumped? If so, you've definitely come to the right place as answering all sizes, shapes, and flavors of questions in this arena is my specialty. I'm "Sam" (no, not short for Samantha!) Jernigan and I recently marked a career milestone: 25 years experience helping people just like you turn their interior as well as exterior design dilemmas into stylish solutions -- and, more importantly, their house into a home they love. My service is quite out-of-the-ordinary so I appreciate this opportunity to explain the way I uniquely work with clients.
Sam Jernigan was a huge help to me when I bought my little Victorian house in Nevada City. I was turning it into a vacation rental home, and having no experience decorating in the Victorian style, I hired Sam, who came highly recommended, to help me. With her knowledgeable advice, wonderful design ideas and expertise in the use of color, and I was able to create exactly the look I wanted inside. And she was fun to work with! When we moved from the city to a more rural setting I was at a bit of a loss as to what to do with our new home.
After 20+ years in the design trade, I had the joy of designing a house from scratch that will, God willing, be the last home I live in. For my own project, I utilized my 3D (three dimensional) space planning software to layout each and every room to scale, including placement of all key furnishings (e.g. FYI, once our plans, right, were finished, we utilized a structural engineer to create the necessary technical elements of the foundation and roof and then a draftsman rendered the final copy which the engineer stamped for the county's purposes.