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Nov. 13, 2025

Nicole Roe on The Mompreneur Model with Dori DeCarlo

Nicole Roe says when you are ready for a space that is home and a statement R. Nickson Interiors is here to design your next chapter, beautifully.

Nicole Roe, Taste-Maker and Authentic Lifestyle Creator is the founder and creative force behind R. Nickson Interiors, a boutique design firm known for blending bold, elevated aesthetics with real-life functionality. Nicole’s journey from California to Central Florida that exemplifies a foundation in creativity and an active lifestyle, both of which significantly shape her professional approach to design.

After founding Nicole Roe Design and subsequently expanding the enterprise to R. Nickson Interiors, Nicole has developed a team distinguished by its operational independence and commitment to bespoke service.Her methodology seamlessly integrates structural expertise with thoughtful design, ensuring each project is both distinctive and suited to the needs of her clients.

Nicole’s appreciation for vintage collections and outdoor pursuits infuses her boutique firm with a distinctive duality, continually elevating the standards of luxury and ingenuity within residential interiors.

Join host Dori DeCarlo on The Mompreneur Model and connect with Nicole at RNicksonInteriors.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube.

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She is sure, she is true, she is straw is straw,

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She is true, is true, she is praise, pray, she

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is she is you.

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Hello, everyone, welcome to today's Word of Mom Radio. Here

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on the Word of Mom Media Network. I'm your host,

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Dori Di Carlo, and you know we are here week

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after week, show after show, breaking those myths that mompreneurs

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and business women, especially those of us building our businesses

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from home, that we're just dabbling in between bake sales

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and getting our nails done.

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We're not.

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We are smart, we are savvy, and we are sharing

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the wisdom of women in business and in life. And

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I'm looking forward to bringing today's guests into our Mompreneur

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model show. Nicole Road, taste maker and authentic lifestyle creator,

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is the founder and creative force behind our Nixon Interiors,

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a boutique design firm known for blending bold, elevated esthetics

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with real life function as. With over fifteen years of

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experience in construction and design, Nicole holds a degree in

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building construction from Georgia Tech and has an extensive working

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knowledge of all aspects of the construction process. Her technical

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expertise combined with an eye for expressive design allows her

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to bring each client's personal brand to life in their homes,

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whether it's one of many or there forever space. The

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Cohal's clients are busy professionals who value exceptional design and

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trust her to deliver spaces that are both impressive and

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intentionally Craftednicle launched the Coal Road Design before evolving the

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brand to our Nixon Interiors, expanding from a home office

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into her own warehouse and receiving house. This operational independence

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allows her team to manage every aspect of a design

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project with precision and care. Whether clients are drawn to

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me minimal, modern, layered, traditional, or something entirely unexpected, Nicole

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embraces the fluidity of style and helps them find their

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unique expression. Her ability to merge structure with soul means

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no two projects ever look alike, while each feels undeniably

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personal and polished. She's originally from Orange County, California, and

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her upbringing was rooted in creativity and a deep appreciation

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for home and lifestyle. After her family relocated to Bakersfield, California,

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she eventually made her way to Atlanta for college, where

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she met her husband, Jeff. Today, they live in Central

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Florida with their four energetic boys from five to eleven.

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You are still in the thick of it, and she

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calls her family paralal creatives, constantly fueled by outdoor adventures

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like camping, mountain biking, and lakeside living. Their lifestyle informs

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her belief that a home should support how you live,

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not just how it looks. I could keep going and going,

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but I would much rather bring the coal in. So,

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with all that being said, Nicole, welcome to Word of

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Mom Radio.

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Hey Dory, thanks for having me.

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Yes, that was a lot, you know, and it's kind

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of fun to listen back and go, wow, I did

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start at home, didn't I, you know, and it's amazing

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how fast it all goes. So I would love for

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you to take us on your journey that has led

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you to where you are now.

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Yes, story, I've always been someone that was like deeply

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affected by my surroundings. The colors of the room, you know,

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the lighting, just the way a room felt. And even

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as a child, I was that kid who was moving

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my bed around, painting the walls, you know. Fast forward

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to college and switching dorms in your first apartments, like

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it was always a really big deal to me. I

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always painted. I always used whatever budget I have had

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to make the space feel better and feel like me.

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And it was a huge priority. And I never really

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knew what I was doing or why I was doing

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it until I discovered what interior design actually was. Like,

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this is a career and this is something that people

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go to school for years for. There's firms, you know,

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across the world that do interior design. And it's not

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just picking you know, beautiful pillows for people's sofas. It's

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really about shaping how people live and feel. In college,

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I had enrolled as an engineer, industrial engineer, just like

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my dad, being firstborn daughter, you know, going to Georgia Tech.

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quickly realized that I was not an engineer. Yes, you

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can be creative and be an engineer, but it really

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wasn't the lifestyle the direction I wanted to go. I

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discovered the College of Architecture. They had a building construction program,

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which sounded great. I love projects that have you know

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that beginning, a middle and then an end result, and

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a lot of careers don't have that. You know, you

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either get to be in the beginning. You get to

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be in the end, but a lot of times people

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don't get to see something completed, and to me, that

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was really important and construction. At that point, I got

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a great internship where I got to work with architects

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and then designers, intier designers that were so smart and

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so creative and loved what they did. But at this point,

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you know, I'm a few years into my degree, looked

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into transferring to duel and role and too out of

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state tuitions, you know, in two thousand and eight, it

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didn't make sense. I knew there was other ways to

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really learn, and that's what I did. Anytime I was

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on a project that had designers or architects, I really

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asked all the questions. But then I graduated in two

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thousand and nine, and that was really when the economy

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was not great to graduate with a degree in construction.

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My now husband and I had been dating for a

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few years. He was headed to Central Florida where we

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are now, to work for his family business, and I

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really wanted to stay in Atlanta. I just loved the buildings,

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and I love the architecture. I loved the life, but

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I didn't have a job, so I did as many

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people do, followed my then boyfriend now husband down to

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central Florida, interviewed with anyone that would read my resume,

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and was eventually hired by a team of construction companies,

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not to be the project manager that I was hoping for,

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but to run their business development and marketing, which was

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great looking back being twenty three, twenty four, twenty five

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because it immersed me into a new community. I got

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to go to networking events, I got to meet trades,

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I got to meet all these people that if I

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was doing something else, I wouldn't have had the opportunity

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to do. And because of that, you know, when I

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started having my children, I stepped away from that, you know,

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fifty sixty hour work week and really needed to reevaluate

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what I was going to do. I give credit to

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stay at home moms. They live the life they want to,

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but I realized, especially after my second was born, I

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couldn't do it. I needed to be creative. I needed

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to be interacting with others, and that was where Nicole

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wrote design started.

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I love it. Women start with why.

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Whatever their why is, either they see something that's not

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being done or they have to find a way to

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make what they want to do work for them.

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So what was it like?

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You know, we talk about the work life balance, and

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I joke all the time that is such an illusion

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because juggling. So how have you manage juggling four boys

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and growing from Nicole or Design to now our Nixon interiors.

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I think knowing that they know what I do, they

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get to see it firsthand. They come by the office

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now that we have our actual office, they get to

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see the finished product. They're friends with some of my

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client's children. So what I do is tangible. I'm not

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just sitting at a computer all day. But I've given

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myself the flexibility and the permission to be able to

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pick them up from school a few days a week,

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to be super present when I want to be super present,

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whether it's a sporting event or they have a function

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at school. I make that decision that yes, I will

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be there at nine point thirty for that hour. I

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won't be on my phone and I'll be there. But

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the hard part is less hard on the children and

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more hard as the mom. Knowing that you can't be

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a full time stay at home mom and run a company.

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It can intersect ut moments, but you can't do both.

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And that has been I would say almost the most

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challenging part.

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It is because the mom guilt thing starts to happen,

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and you are absolutely right, it is harder on you

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than the kids. I had three, and all three were

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involved in sports, and I was a single mom and

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running a business and everything else, and I would run

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myself ragged trying to get to all of their games.

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And they sat down with me and said, Mom, it's

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okay to pick one of us for a day. Because

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both all three of my kids were on double teams.

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Sometimes they had four games in one day each, so

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I would go on a Saturday Sunday they'd have eight

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to twelve games. So I had to come to the

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point that I knew that they knew I wanted to

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be there stuff, but sometimes you can't. And it is

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it's the mom guilt. How did you manage? Because again,

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now you have all of these outdoor activities and adventures

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with your kids, and I'm looking at your hat on

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the hat where my back on my car has all

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my camping gear in it. Because at any time I

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can hit the road and have everything including my pop

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up bathroom and shower.

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That's right in my car.

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So I totally love that you are kind of melding

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that into your business.

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So how do you do all in it? Well?

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I think one common denominator for the hobbies are that

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you can't be on your phone for any of them.

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You're in the wilderness, you have no cell reception. You're

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mountain biking, you cannot answer a phone call. Mountain biking

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or rock climbing or paddleboarding, or any of these other

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activities that the children love to do and we can

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do as adults with them, you can't be taking calls.

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we were mountain biking and there was a dad pulled

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over on the side of the trail on the phone

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and his son was so ticked at him, and I

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remember my heart broke for both. Like the dad was

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taking it was a Friday, was taking time to be

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with the sun, but also had to take a call.

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to be one hundred percent at what you're doing. So

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one hundred percent, you know, with the kids, or one

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hundred percent at work. Trying to do the fifty to

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fifty just leaves everyone frustrated.

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Absolutely. We talked about it so often during COVID. We

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did so many shows on just transitioning because for those

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work at home mom I personally feel that that is

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COVID really validated. All the mom for doors building their

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businesses from home. Were people, like I said, in the beginning,

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and they think we're dabbling and they don't really the

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discipline it takes to run a business from home. But

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when everyone was there and how do you do it?

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We gave tips, you know, sitting an alarm or putting

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a different colored light in and when that red light

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is on it means stop that mommy has to work.

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But the second at light goes off, you are one

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hundred percent with your kids and stuff. So I love

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that you know, you see that and how important it

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is because yeah, when you try to do the fifty

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to fifty, everybody loses.

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Yes, Yes, we've had a big conversation about transitions. One

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of the best parts of pulling my business from my house,

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beyond getting everything out of my house, has been my

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office is about twenty two minutes from home. It's also

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just about twelve minutes from the kids' school. But both

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of those distances give me enough time to reset, make

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a phone call if I need to listen to a podcast.

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And there's even times my husband and I have talked

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about this where we take an extra lap around the

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block when we get home because we need a couple

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more minutes. Because as soon as you come down that

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gravel driveway, they are ready for everything. You know, dinner,

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getting ready for sports, the logistics of life. You don't

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You know we are talking with Nicole Row, who is

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the absolute fabulous force behind our Nixon interiors and so

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true I love it's the extra turn around the block.

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So I have to ask in your design work, all

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of these outdoor things that you do with your kids,

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does that kind of spark some of your creativity and

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even creativity in them?

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I would think? So we all joke that our most

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creative ideas come in the shower. It is you know,

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because your brain is at rest, your brain is at peace,

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You're not overthinking all the things. And I believe nature

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and being outdoors and just allowing yourself to either get

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that dopamine hit or the relaxation of the deep breaths

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allows you to be more creative when you're desired, because

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it takes you back to why we're creative. You know,

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why we're doing all this hard work is not to

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get burnt out, is not to have sleepless nights. It's

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to be able to enjoy life.

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It's funny. I'm an avid driver.

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I literally put a couple of thousand miles a month

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on my car easily. Sometimes I'll do seven or eight

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thousand miles in a month. Getting behind the wheel of

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a car is what relaxes me. How do you balance

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chaos with structure and everything in what you were doing?

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Because when you come into somebody's house to design, there

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have to be times that you walk in and just

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wonder what were they even thinking because of the chaos

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in their hole?

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How do you filter through that nicole?

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Well, so many of our clients are busy working professionals,

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whether it's you know, the husband and wife or a

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single mom, they tend to have a lot on their plates.

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They have children, they have pets, they have busy careers

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and as we both know, so often you're you know,

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up at five am, you're leaving the house at seven thirty.

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Most people aren't getting home till six, seven, eight o'clock

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at night. So however you left the home is how

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it is when you come home. And that is very hard,

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but that is the opportunity to really dive in with

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the client to figure out how they live, how is

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their lifestyle, what are the realities of their life, and

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how can we design a space that helps them, that

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improves that, that makes their daily functions easier, because most

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homes are not set up for that person. You know,

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they were set up whoever built the home or whatever

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kitchen designer or home designer thought looked nice. But if

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you know your kids are in multi sports, or you

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like to go camping, or the dogs like to eat

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and need to be on a leash, design the house

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for that as well as honestly the level of finishes,

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like make them easy for your lifestyle and make them

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hard working. You don't have to worry that the kid

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is spilt something on the counter at seven am, and

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it's going to sit there until you get home because

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you didn't notice. That can be really, really hard.

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It is, And again it is that whole balance. It's

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setting things up. I'm into systems and I'm an everything

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away person, So when I am working, I have everything

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at my fingertips. But at the end of the day,

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everything locks down. It goes into the exact same spot

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where I got it. And it was so funny my

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kids back in the day, when my kids were younger

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and are off my office, they had their own shelves

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and here were their things, but they would occasionally go

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on to mind grab something and not put it back,

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and they get home and it's kind I just spent

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fifteen minutes finding something I should have just been able

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to reach up and grab. If you use it, please

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just put it back. How do you help people with that?

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Just that sometimes the organizing of Again, you've got kids

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in sports and this is the dog stuff, and here's

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your outdoor things, indoor things. How do you help them

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work to create kind of systems for themselves or do

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you do that?

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It's really by like walking through their daily routine, like

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do you use your garage door do you use your

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front door? So if everybody's coming through the front door

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like we do, having you know, a mudroom off your garage,

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no one's ever going to make it all the way

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over there. They need something by the front door. And

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recently we had a client, great client, super busy, you know,

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multiple dogs and children, and we created a hidden mudroom

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by the front door because that was the door they used.

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We did an additional drop zone in the kid's hallway

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for the other items, and we moved their laundry room

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across the house by the primary because nothing was ever

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getting to where it needed to go. How the house

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was originally set up and they had piles everywhere and

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it wasn't their fault. There just wasn't anywhere to put it.

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So really figuring out, okay, so when the kids come home,

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their back quacks are going to get hung up here

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behind a closed door. Because we had figured out that

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the kids aren't going to keep that organized. It needed

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to be behind a closed door. But we ventilated the

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doors because as teenage boys, some of their stuff isn't

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the freshest smelling, and you put it behind a closed door,

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you leave it for three days, it might you know,

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need some febrize. So really thinking through are the kids

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actually going to open a drawer and put shoes in

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or should they just be able to kick their shoes in.

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There's so many little ways to really dive into how

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that family is, but it takes honesty from the couple

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from the kid, and that sometimes takes a few meetings

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for them to get comfortable. But by the end of it,

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we always joke that we literally know what's in you know,

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their junk drawer, their bedside table, and you know every

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hall closet because it's intentional. It's put there for a reason.

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What do you want to say to that mom out

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there that is working trying to build her business, that

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dealing with everything and building it around your lifestyle.

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That having a well designed home for your life is

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not selfish. So many women say, oh, I wish I

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could do that, But you know, we have kids, private school,

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we have they need to go to Disney, you know,

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there's sports, there's all these other things they're spending money

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on and not small sums of money. Especially when they

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do have the finances to do some changes to their

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home to make their life better. They don't realize that

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the impact in the investment literally changes their life. To them,

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it feels very surface level, like oh, new paint, pretty pillows, X,

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Y and Z, but it really is life changing once

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they can get over the I hired an interior designer.

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We're renovating and redesigning our home. It's kind of hard

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for some people.

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It is, And you know, I think it's developing new

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habits because when you haven't had a place for things

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and now all of a sudden, you do. It's getting

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yourself into the routine. Oh wait a minute, this is

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where this goes.

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Now.

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I don't know about you, but I am definitely a

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creature of habit. So when something isn't where I normally

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put it, my world goes.

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Just my car keys, I don't know about you. That's

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my kryptonite. As my car keys.

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I had to get a thing that I can hook

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them onto whatever I have, because they wind up. I'm serious,

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they have wound up in places. It's like did they

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Nicole Roe

Taste-Maker and Authentic Lifestyle Creator and Founder

Nicole Roe, Taste-Maker and Authentic Lifestyle Creator is the founder and creative force behind R. Nickson Interiors, a boutique design firm known for blending bold, elevated aesthetics with real-life functionality. With over 15 years of experience in construction and design, Nicole holds a degree in Building Construction from Georgia Tech and has an extensive working knowledge of all aspects of the construction process. Her technical expertise, combined with an eye for expressive design, allows her to bring each client's personal brand to life in their home—whether it's one of many or their forever space. Nicole’s clients are busy professionals who value exceptional design and trust her to deliver spaces that are both impressive and intentionally crafted.
Originally from Orange County, California, Nicole's upbringing was rooted in creativity and a deep appreciation for home and lifestyle. After her family relocated to Baskerville, CA, she eventually made her way to Atlanta for college, where she met her husband Geoff. Today, they live in Central Florida with their four energetic boys, ages 5 to 11. Nicole calls her family “feral creatives,” constantly fueled by outdoor adventures like camping, mountain biking, and lakeside living. Their lifestyle informs her belief that a home should support how you live—not just how it looks.
Nicole launched Nicole Roe Design before evolving the brand into R. Nickson Interiors, expanding from a home office into her own warehouse and receiving house. This operational independence allows her team to manage every as…Read More

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