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Heritage CEO, Stephanie Thornton Plymale, was recently featured in an Apartment Therapy article, The 5 IKEA Products Professional Home Stagers Swear By. While IKEA products are great for staging, these affordable finds are also a perfect way to refresh and update your own home! Continue reading to learn about our personal favorites from IKEA.  Read more

Heritage Owner and CEO Stephanie Plymale was featured in the Apartment Therapy article 3 Kitchen Counter Styling Ideas Professional Home Stagers Swear By. We loved their suggestions and have a few more ideas of our own on how to stage a kitchen. Whether you are a looking to sell a home, or just want toRead more

Samantha Ivari is a Colorado Native and a recent graduate of Heritage Denver.  After graduating from High School, she began her secondary education path pursuing a major in Biology, but quickly realized that biology was not the “calling” in her life.  Samantha grew up around design and home renovations.  As a child of parents who flipped homes asRead more

Caitlin Dewey exceled as a member of the very first graduating class at Heritage Denver.  Her passion and skill for design shone through during the entire Master Certification program.  It was clear that Caitlin enjoyed the design process, but her love of design was far more than a desire to create beautiful spaces. She truly cares about the peopleRead more

Ever since she was a child, Lindsey had a passion for art and design. Like many future designer’s, Lindsey was constantly rearranging her bedroom and producing “grand reveals” of newly designed rooms to surprise her parents returning home from trips. From a young designer, Lindsey went on to complete her undergraduate degree in Communication andRead more

MANDY HO, MANDY HO DESIGN Mandy did not grow up wanting to be an interior designer. She came from a family that values practicality. While she always had a knack for design, it was never considered a viable option as a career. In fact, Mandy had three different careers before she finally decided to pursue interiorRead more

Therese Diederich has always known that design was an inherent part of her makeup.  She can remember constantly rearranging the furniture in her bedroom and begging to help her mom decorate her home growing up.   Design had always come naturally to Therese, whether that was in the form of interiors or fashion. After graduating fromRead more

Sydney McManness has always had a love and passion for design.  She considered being an Interior Designer a dream job since she was a little girl, yet it was not a path she felt she could pursue. Instead she landed in client relations, where she worked in a startup tech company for eight years.  It was not until theRead more

Attending Heritage School of Interior Design is not the first time that Denver student Claudia Folk Wright has tapped into her creative side.  Her childhood was spent in Germany exploring Europe with her family, where she was exposed to culture and art early in life.  When her father’s job moved the family to Colorado SpringsRead more

Getting out of a rut means making a hard turn, whether it’s on the road, in your life, or a room in your house that’s driving you crazy. For inspiration, I’ve drawn upon the model created by Dr. John Kotter, a Harvard Professor who studied driving change in businesses, and I’m applying that to gettingRead more