Since the age of third grade, I have known that had wanted to be an interior designer when I grew up. I remember vividly the moment that the passion set in. I was handed a sheet of graph paper to learn multiplication. The teach asked us to draw up 4 over 5 and fill in the box and count how many squares there were. The more squares on the page, the clearer it became that these were rooms in a home. So I began to draw rooms and doors and then furniture. I became more creative and began to try to make them 3D (An early axonometric drawing).
My Dad would build me dollhouses when I was younger and would let me rearrange the walls in the kits and pick out the wall covering. He taught me scale and proportion by showing me the size of the doll people and comparing it to the size of the wall covering. We would even build our own furniture. No detail was overlooked.
In my high school years, my doodles in the classroom turned to sketching room ideas and renderings. By Senior years, I created my own curriculum for an independent study class in Interior design. Each week I would develop a sketch and a rendering of a room to hone my rendering and design skills before heading off to college.
Ms. Spinner graduated cum laude from the FIDER-accredited Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus on Interior Architecture and Design. Her final project, a conceptual hotel in Thailand, was featured in the Academy of Art’s esteemed Spring Show.
