Hi! I’m Christy Ramón and I’d love to help you with your design project! My ten+ years of high-end design work have taught me that trust - a client’s deference and belief that I can solve their problems - and communication - my instinct that I must not only hear but know my clients - are the crux of successful design. Even my most traditional clients know that my aesthetic isn’t my priority: my priority is finding out who you are, how you live, and how we can make that better.
I’ve worked on Capitol Hill and the night shift at a juvie hall; I’ve waited tables; I’ve worked for celebrities and fashion icons. But I knew I wanted to bring beauty and comfort into people’s lives from a young age, and I hope to do that for you, too!
Educated on both the East and West Coasts, I began my formal education at a women’s liberal arts college in Virginia and then finished coursework for my MFA in Interior Architecture & Design after studying in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
Among other things, I learned Revit, construction drawing, color theory, watercolor rendering, architecture, 3D modeling, perspective drawing., and more. These skills, along with my mentorships, internships, and work experience, are the reasons you can trust my eye: I can qualify my opinions and inclinations not just from a quick study of Pinterest, but because I’ve been classically trained. My life’s passion is to cultivate and deliver special rhythms between objects in our homes so that they are assemblages of form and function that not only hum with meaning, but sparkle with beauty.
I’ve worked for a couple high-end design and architecture firms and have been taking projects as a solo designer since 2014, completing projects in Santa Fe, D.C., San Antonio, Birmingham, Chicago, Marfa, Highland Park, and Boston.
What you should know about me from the get-go: I’m a laid back, Type B personality but a nitty-gritty details editor and broad strokes artist.
I landed in Chicago when I met my online Scrabble partner, with whom I share a life and family. I eat donuts on the regs and am ambivalent about almost all of life’s orders - except for beautiful, timeless design, my dear family, our community, and animal welfare. My New Year’s resolution every year is to reduce my carbon footprint - you can do it too. That’s a link!