My eye for design started early in my childhood growing up in Tehran, Iran as the daughter of a musician and an architect. Despite being a designer at heart, my education and first career was focused on engineering and science. After working as a Chemical Engineer and establishing a career as a Project Manager in Iran, I had the opportunity for a fresh start when I immigrated to the U.S. Soon after arriving in Seattle, I decided to pursue my lifelong passion for design and enrolled at the International Academy of Design & Technology (IADT) and earned my degree in Fashion & Merchandising.

At IADT, I enjoyed several projects that allowed me to develop my sense of color and textile use. The inspirations for my early designs were from my mother's music and my father's architectural forms and shapes. Toward the end of my fashion education, I fell in love and got married, in which I designed and created my wedding gown for both my final design project to finish out my degree and my wedding soon thereafter.

My entrepreneurial career began right after graduation, when I started Anar Couture fashion label and business. Anar Couture's first collection were modern trenchcoat dresses for the fashion-minded, high power, professional businesswoman, which were featured at Seattle Fashion Week and Portland Fashion Week, where the collection earned a First Runner-Up in its category.

Soon thereafter, my husband and I moved to San Diego, where I worked to establish Anar Couture in SoCal. I was honored to receive an invitation and be picked among a group of 100 designers around the US to attend a Fashion Show in New York City, including showing my collection in front of judges of Project Runway, like Heidi Klum. But at about the same time, I found out I was fairly far in my pregnancy with twins... and that moment rerouted my life's path... at least for several years.

At that point in my journey, and for almost a decade, my focus was on motherhood and my family. Yet, it was my focus on family that catalyzed my evolution to an Interior Designer.

During the Covid pandemic and lockdown, we were all forced to work from home, which lacked the necessary space for my husband to work long hours from home and my young twins to attend school remotely. We could hardly find a place to focus, and so we set out to have our house remodeled to make it both cozy & comfy while giving everyone a workspace. After four different quotations for middle and large size remodeling companies, we knew there had to be a better and affordable way to create the spaces we needed.

That was when I became an Interior Designer: to come up with practical and aesthetic designs to transform our house into what we wanted and needed, but within a budget we could afford. Within four months, I directed the remodeling of our entire house from floor to ceiling. Not only was I able to design and create the functional spaces which were for us, but I executed it at one third of the price of the average quotation we received from the design & build firms.

I know any sort of remodeling and renovation can feel overwhelming and stressful. But when done with the right functional purpose and within the homeowner's budget, it becomes worth it. At the end of the day, what is most important to me is my client's happiness and peace of mind.