We live in what used to be a small town, New Braunfels, Texas, which is now one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. When I rented my first duplex here at 17, there were approximately 15,000 people that resided in our little oasis. The beautiful streets were slow, with farm trucks and tractors, and bare. I could usually spot someone I knew with their windows down in the middle of summer, and wave hello.
My father was a General Contractor growing up, and I would help him in the evenings and during the summer. I learned a lot watching my dad. I can remember the care he took bidding each job, pricing out materials, drawing an addition or new build to scale, and working with the client through every consideration and change before he ever got paid a dollar. The lifespan of every job was something that we all lived through as a family. Every paint color, product, wood selection, improvision, early mornings and long days spent trying to complete each job in the most respectful and gracious manner. My dad was always giving his whole self to each customer and every project. He could never tell anyone "no", and always went above and beyond, without a change order or additional costs. He always felt called to help someone if they were in need, including neighbors, family and friends. He truly worked through the love of Jesus.
Starting my own company in 2010, I went into building a business that would represent the same passion I had for helping people. It is a true and sincere feeling of wanting to help, and I believe that it is a necessary one in order to be genuinely happy. It was so difficult to build out policies and procedures for me. I have always said, " It's either the right thing or it's the wrong thing, " and I've always believed that we all have the answer within our own heart. Whether or not we listen to it is another choice. I've watched many businesses become successful at the cost of their own merit. It has always been so important to hold true to who I am, my beliefs and why I started this mission of providing peace within homes.
The faster and harder life gets, the easier it is to make decisions based off of survival, convienence, politics, religion, finances or really whatever motivates you the most. Now, it's even easier for people to try to justify their actions and reasonings, and we see it all the time in our business due to social media.
People ask me everyday, " What services do you offer? What makes you different from the next? What do you have that they don't?" I've really been thinking of this series of questioning and expectations and what it truly means to me.
Let's go down memory lane and take a peek inside my childhood home, the foundation literally built with my father's own two hands. We worked every day building our family home, and strategically situated it further away from the violence of the growing, changing city of San Antonio. We framed up the walls together and finished out the home. The first night in our new house, I can remember sleeping in the center of the room on a mattress laid on the floor. There was a pride and a sense of magic floating around us that night. The peace that settled my father's sleep that night, the sigh of Mama knowing it was all going to be okay, and that we had accomplished it all by ourselves was the spirit that built the woman that I am today.
As a designer, I am more than just codes, numbers, and illustrations. I have been gifted with a foundation of empathy, love and genuine consideration that guides me through each day of my life. This has always been my path forward through this life. By the age of 4, I was already helping out around the house by cleaning, cooking and organizing our home, in tune with what best served my parents and our family. The gift of knowledge comes from an intuition that I've always had. I put things back together from chaos. I create solutions out of the need to survive. For me, functionality equals harmony. I can see projects and designs completed in my mind and FEEL what is necessary to solve the problem at hand and achieve the desired end result. I have a sense of knowing that helps me through each design. I always stay committed to the solutions and work from that space of possibility.
Taking into consideration what worked for my father and what didn't, I created Pixie Living Solutions, LLC. Each year, I go over everything, edit, take out, add in new things that keep us able to provide affordable services. What makes me the most different from every other designer out there, is that I can appreciate a used couch, and a $20,000 couch. They both have their people and place in time.
I have fourteen years of experience under my belt, and even more if you consider all the years with my dad. I currently work and have worked with hundreds, if not thousands of small businesses. I have helped hundreds of clients achieve peace, comfort and beauty all to their own styles within their homes. I can look at a space and instinctively tell you what does and does not work, what is and is not functional. This is all the product of my experience, intuition and upbringing.
But even so, the question is always inevitably asked, "What do you offer?"
I offer my entire heart in every design, an open mind to design whatever you need, and the willpower to work as hard as I possibly can to complete each project.
Remember, what I have offered you is more than a simple service. It is who I am, where I came from, and will always be, where I am going. Somewhere with peaceful interiors, creating harmonious designs, using what you have, or starting over brand new. My desire to bring peace within your home is rooted within who I am, my destiny and my belief that the home is the center of every person and family on Earth.
To all who support my small business and trust me to be within your spaces, thank you from the bottom of my heart. There isn't one project that I don't live, breathe and love with all of my heart. I do not take your trust lightly, and I hold myself and our team to the highest standards of business.
A little throw back for you, if you know, you know, " Faith, Trust & Pixie dust!"
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