How She Creates Good: Ep 323 How Interior Design Can Create Good
What heals and resurrects you from the mundane? For Kim Lewis it’s the powerful tool of creativity. In this interview, Kim explains her work with ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and her many other community projects where she has used her gifts of interior design for good. Kim gives tips for you to use your creativity to do good, encouraging you not to be overwhelmed, but rather to focus on connecting and giving through your service and time. She claims our hands are meant to serve people and that we need to break out of our comfort zones to do so. She explains her own trials of getting out of her comfort zones, including her tiny home living. She tells you to let go of your fear of failure, and just have fun with your creative instincts.
Show Notes
- Meg’s Episode for Art Feeds
- Quinn’s episode on making changes in your city
- Whitney’s episode on working with Rapha House
- Kim Lewis YouTube channel
- In case anyone feels led to contribute...We are building another Art Center in Haiti in 2020, so if someone wants to donate to that, they can send a donation to Rapha House, with a note "For Haiti Art Center"!
- Rapha House
- Touch A Life
Meet Your Guest
Kim Lewis is a "Little lady with Big ideas!" She is best known for her work as the Lead Designer behind ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and Founder of Kim Lewis Designs in Austin, TX. Most recently she for designs restaurants, boutiques, and celebrities all around the world. Kim's passion is to empower people through creativity, and her company mission is "Design Can Change Lives." Over the past 6 years she has led a design team to build therapeutic art centers for rescued children in Ghana, Cambodia,Thailand and Honduras. She and husband (filmmaker), Joey Puterbaugh, and their daughter, Sunny Jean, recently returned from Thailand with Art Feeds where they designed a therapeutic art center for Rapha House.
Connect with Kim through her website, youtube, and instagram.
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