All Work and No Play = No Way!

After a busy week with work, kids and school you would think that the last thing on my mind would be what project I want to conquer next! But of course, that's exactly what I'm doing!

I’ve come to the sad realization that our playroom no longer suits the needs of our two very creative, but extremely unorganized school-age kids. With that said, I am now looking to create a craft and homework room for these well-deserving kiddos.

So where do you start? Well, any designer will tell you a great place to start is with a programming questionnaire – exactly what does your client (or in this case, my kids, husband and I) need and want from this space?

So that is exactly what I am going to do! Figure out what storage requirements we have, what the kids want to do in this room, how will the room grow with them and then what feel do we want from the room? Do we want it to be bright, bold and fun or cool, modern and subdued? Should it mesh with the other adjoining areas of the home? So many questions to ask and so many answers to analyze!

But do you see why these questions need to be answered prior to starting?
It doesn’t make sense to work on a room until you know exactly how you want the room to function and then you can proceed from there.

Here is what our playroom looks like now….....



I wasn't kidding about the unorganized kids part!



Our weekend plan is to get our questions answered and find at least one inspiration image to get us started!

Wish us luck!

Welcome to Mi Design Moxie!

It’s lovely to meet you! Here is a little bit about me….

I am Kori Moses, Owner of Mi Design Group – a residential interior design consulting firm in Chandler, Arizona focusing on kitchen and bath remodels. I am a mother of two, a wife and an interior design addict. I love to dress up – unless I don’t have to leave the house. I am a girly-girl who loves pink, purple, and anything that sparkles or shimmers. I can never have too many pairs of shoes or pajamas. I watch too much reality TV, and I love reading interior design blogs and magazines (I currently subscribe to nine shelter magazines, not including the many I read online)!

My love for interior design started way back when Barbie was my first client and I spent hours and hours designing her dream house. I would use tissue boxes for beds and fabric from old, worn out t-shirts for bedding and window treatments. Even as a child, I was an interior decorator who performed a bedroom makeover for every season and occasion. I would spend my days making my room pretty by organizing my shelves and dressers, making pillows out of old fabric remnants and even trying to make wooden accessories with my dad in our basement. I have come a long way since then and my love of interior design has never wavered. I joke that it took me until the ripe old age of 32 to finally figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. But once I figured it out there was no turning back!

I started Mi Design Group in 2005 and it has grown from helping clients decorate their homes to complete home, kitchen, and bath remodels. I personally guide each project and create rooms that are true reflections of my client’s tastes and personality. My creative vision is balanced by a vigorous work ethic to ensure that my client’s project stays on time and within budget.

When I’m not blogging or working, you can usually find me doing a project around our house. I seem to have a hard time sitting still when it comes to interior design. I love to repaint, repurpose and redecorate (as my husband can attest to). My blog will attempt to inform, motivate and guide clients through the process of transforming their homes into beautiful, functional spaces that they love! I will post products that I think are fabulous and worth sharing, I will show some 'behind the scenes' posts from my own home projects and some from my "work" as a designer, photos of rooms that inspire me and try to offer some tidbits of useful and savvy design information.

I am looking forward to sharing my thoughts, tastes, opinions and perspectives with you. I hope that MI Design Moxie becomes one of your regular blog stops and that you find it enlightening, useful and most of all fun to read!!

I am honored that you are took the time to check out my blog and I am eager to meet you (so please leave comments, ideas, or questions for me -they are greatly appreciated), and who knows maybe that will be the topic of my next post!