Design and ElevaTE your home with a SpaceLIft

Mary Edwards is a San Francisco based interior designer. She’s had a multidisciplinary background: as an artist and an interior designer who received a Bachelor of Fine arts, an Interior Design degree, and graduated from the Executive Program of Sustainability from Presidio Graduate School. She is inspired by her love of creating a home that’s filled with comfort, warmth, order, and happiness. A seasoned stager/flipper and passionate educator, she has taught art to children, design to college students, and watercolors to adults - always exploring how culture, style, and personal connection shape the spaces and places we live in. SpaceLift, a term Mary coined many years ago, offers a ‘face-lift for your home’ depending upon your needs, timeline, and budget, in a simple redo or total renovation to move and or only remove unnecessary furnishings and items that no longer serve a purpose. Rightsizing and SpaceLifting are basically the same thing -it’s about changing and gaining a lifestyle that fits your space at any stage of life. Making a move to another place or just staying put brings: a greater peace of mind, a life less encumbered of maintenance and upkeep, and having a place for everything brings relief. Decluttering your space declutters your mind. Reconfiguring rooms to make them more functional, reducing clutter, maximizing storage, creating more usable space without necessarily adding square footage, remodeling to improve accessibility and convenience, improving color schemes, furnishings, making a room feel brighter, more open and more luxurious will make your space look and feel better are all part of the evaluation and goal during any stage or transition.

Using a simple toolkit with to-do forms and worksheets is an action plan to get started: what to keep, toss, recycle, sell, or give away. The process does take time, energy, patience, focus to let-go of stuff and isn’t easy. The rewards are many as a “less is more” environment brings a fresher lifestyle that you love and be proud of. Surrounding yourself with the things you love matters. Your home tells your own personal story. Her expertise and passion is making homes beautiful and orderly, and the making process efficient, enjoyable and fun!

Mary’s worked at multi-faceted design firms and on hundreds of projects from homes to hospitals to being part of the team that designed the interior of the International Space Station for NASA. Her father and grandfather were rocket-scientists who ignited her love of outer space, while her maternal grandfather was an architect - she was inspired by both earth and outer space design from an early age. Mary incorporates Nature’s beauty by bringing the outdoors indoors with color, pattern, art, and furnishings. Mary’s lifelong mission is to bridge art, aesthetics, design, and architecture to connect people to themselves, to others, their community, and to their interior spaces. Bringing nature’s beauty indoors add magic and greenery. Decades as a real estate agent, staging and flipping houses for herself and clients, working and traveling locally and globally has informed and ignited her curiousity and interest in knowing how others thrive in their homes. She’s worked on hundreds of homes, created a rug business in India and China, a condo in New Zealand, a villa in Italy, and on several hospitals in the Bay Area.

Her love of creating stylish and functional interiors to live in and work better was also fueled by her own dyslexia and desire to help others make and keep their homes organized. She bought and remodeled her first home at age 21. After moving to San Francisco, raising a family there, first as a single, then as a parent, and after divorcing, she moved 11 times as a single parent with her children that taught her even more resilience, patience and focus to create happier homes that work well, and look and feel great.