A big thanks to the subcontractors and vendors that work with to bring our designs to life. I know that it isn’t always easy (don’t I know it!)  but I appreciate the work you do to make the process so seamless each and every time. YOU MATTER!

I want to thank the builders that we get to rub shoulders with. I love getting to know and understand the way you work. The knowledge I gain from working with each of you, allows me to implement new learnings into future projects. I truly appreciate your patience as I learn and grow with each project and I am thankful for the beautiful creations that you help bring to life. YOU MATTER!

To my amazing clients. I wouldn’t be here without your belief  in me; for that I am immensely grateful. I am so lucky to have the opportunity to work with such amazing clients, everyday, who help my team and I stretch our design muscles and create beautiful spaces. YOU MATTER!

To my team, I am so grateful for the countless hours you tirelessly put in to bring to life these beautiful spaces that we create together. You are each always there to make sure the designs are accurately drawn and that all our ducks are in a row. You keep me in line time and time again. You laugh at my crazy and try not to laugh at my serious. YOU MATTER!

I am grateful to work in an industry where not only do I get to meet new professionals, and build those  business relationships, but I get to make amazing friends. I have had the opportunity to make friends with individuals I have never physically met before through the conversations we are able to have on a myriad of social media platforms. I feel that I have created a home in the industry beyond what I ever could have imagined. YOU ALL MATTER!

Last, but definitely not least, I am grateful to my family. The people that I love the most and are my biggest supporters and cheerleaders. Thank you for listening, trusting in me and being patient as I get to live my dreams. I couldn’t do what I do without the support I receive from my husband, each of my children and their spouses, and especially the sweetest granddaughter. YOU MATTER!

As you are gathering with your families, friends and loved ones during this holiday season. Please remember that if you are reading this…YOU are my family now too!

Hugs, 

Alli

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I began this journey, which i didn’t realize till much later, while i was in high school working hard in AP Art. I always had a love of drawing, painting, creating and working with my hands. Before I had this outlet, I often worked with my father on projects around the house and found that the construction process just made sense to me. It’s a very logically illogical process sometimes, and i just got it. 

After high school, I dabbled with my art skills, and soon found, I loved arranging and rearranging the furniture or wall decor in my dorm at college. This grew into doing the same thing in the home I eventually shared with my husband. With kids in tow, I would venture into stores and grab miscellaneous items and somehow make them work. After many years of this, the itch for more increased, as did my husband’s desire for me to let the spaces be. Eventually, he kindly asked me to work on someone else’s home. I began helping neighbors and friends with their projects. Teaching myself to faux paint walls (i know i just dated myself), rewire outlets and light fixtures, install tile, tear rooms apart, etc. I had no fear of the work and only excitement for what could be done. My business name was accents by design during this time.

At this point, I was still a mom with 4 young boys and needed to balance my projects with my children and my home life. I would only  take on a couple projects a year, but this gave me the creative outlet I needed and the strength to carry on inside the home as well. I absolutely loved repurposing someone’s decor and still using it, but in a totally different way than they had been using it previously. Ideas would just stream into my head. It was exhilarating to see a room transform into a totally different space with very little additions to it. Gah…i loved it! I also had a passion for remodels. Knocking down walls and seeing what a space could become.

Several years later, I was asked by a friend to help with a couple homes that were being built by a newly formed construction company. It was so much fun to create something from the ground up and instead of having to think through and rework a plan, the project was fresh and the sky was the limit. Over the next couple years, I would help with a couple homes a year. It was the perfect amount to take on with my boys getting a bit older. I was even able to still take on the random decorating project too! 

A couple years into this arrangement, I was asked to take on a bit more for this builder and begin working on every home. I would do the project management as well as the interior design with the homeowners. Because of the way my brain worked, it was an easy transition to do material estimating, tracking, ordering, on site meetings, construction walk throughs with the sub contractors, etc. My youngest was about 9 at this point and I was able to work on a part time basis in the office. My older boys were 13, 14 and 15 and really stepped up to help watch their little brother in the afternoons that I would get home a little late. 

I have failed to mention how supportive my husband was through this time as well. He could see how I needed the momming as well as the creative outlet.

I continued to work for this builder, as well as the occasional side job with accents by design. It was a great fit! In about 2015, I was getting the itch to do more of the interior design packages. With construction, I was getting so busy and had so many projects I was handling, that the furniture and design part of my job was falling by the wayside. By 2016, I could feel my need to do more starting to really take over. I was able to do a “Parade of homes” Home for the UVParade, but was unable to decorate and furnish the home. Then in 2017, amidst all the regular projects, another opportunity to design a “Parade of Homes” home came, but this time, I was able to do the project from beginning to end, furniture and accessories! The whole shebang!! My itch had been scratched!! I decided after that wrapped up, it was time to go back out on my own and work on my own dreams.

THis is when I changed the name of my business  to Allison Campbell Design. It felt like I jumped off a cliff! I was so nervous. What if I failed What if no one wanted me to help with their homes, their projects, their dreams My husband reassured me that this would not be the case. I had built relationships within the construction community. I was trusted among this community. I had become known for my ideas, my organization and my quick response time to clients and contractors. The month after I leapt, the projects started rolling in. Once people heard I had gone back out on my own, the flood gates opened. I have been so blessed, and overwhelmed, with the amount of trust that is placed in me. In the almost 3 years since forming Allison Campbell Design, my firm has grown from just me, to two, to three and now to four designers!! 

I have surrounded myself with talented women who love what they do, who are honest and hardworking and women i can call my friends. I couldn’t ask for more out of my once fearful dream. I look forward to continuing to create, please my clients, and work hard for myself, my family and my team.

Don’t be afraid to jump….it could be exactly what you need! 

Allison

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