Meet Adrienne Hart of ModaScapes Interior Design in Scottsdale

Today we’d like to introduce you to Adrienne Hart.

Adrienne, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I give my parents total props for who I am as a professional today. As a kid, I watched my mom lovingly hand sew our curtains, reupholster chairs, replace wallpaper and revamp cabinets. I stood alongside my dad as he finished our basement and built out our back patio. By the time they divorced when I was 12, I had learned every tool of the trade, aside from plumbing. I had no idea you could just hire tradespeople to do these things for you.

Until, that is, when I caught an episode of “Trading Spaces” years later. At the time, my husband and I were in a transition after having built and sold a tech company and I was joyfully immersed in the process of decorating our home. I remember fuming at the television over some of the less-than-creative redecorating choices and thinking “Geez, I could have done something way better than that!” So I went back to school and got my Interior Design certification in 2002.

As corny as it may sound, I was destined to be an interior designer. My father—the engineer—and my mother—the social worker—instilled in me a roll-up-your-sleeves determination and practical approach to home design. My own resolve to serve people in a way that brings beauty and meaning into their lives is what continually drives me. At my core, I have an intimate understanding of how people’s physical surroundings can impact them on a deeply emotional level and I’m inspired and challenged every day to improve lives. I simply can’t imagine doing anything else!

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Having the right people to support the company, whether that’s an employee or a sub-contractor, is mission critical because my design is only as good as the execution. I only work with caring, skilled and kind people that are about service before bottom line. Taking care of people with creativity, compassion and collaboration is how we handle all “design opportunities”. Obstacles come up on every job and I see it as a sign that there was something better in store for that section or detail or bit or bauble. They’re just tiny course corrections on the way to the perfect design solution.

We’d love to hear more about your business.
For us, design starts not with the eyes, but with the ears. We start first by listening to understand who you are and what inspires you. We want to know your story. We want to know that your favorite color is coral, that you live and breathe for your six beloved grandkids and that your most treasured memories are of your treks across Spain.

Our clients are individuals first with aesthetics and tastes that vary on every spectrum and who are dynamic and ever evolving. We don’t put you in any style box. We paint your box with the story of who you are. Homes weave the story of personal style with family values, with treasured memories, with delightful touches and inviting furnishings.

Being inspired by your surroundings is important. Beauty in whatever form that is to you should be tucked and etched into every cranny of your living spaces. And when you can infuse hidden gems of stress-relieving functionality in the process—now that’s rewarding! That’s what inspires us to do what we do.

I, personally, love to be of service and have an acute sense of intuition, so when I sense a home or family in distress, I know right away that I can help. And by distress, I mean that the house is not supporting the family’s needs. Could be functionally or aesthetically- either way, I can get to the root of the problems and come up with many creative ways to solve them.

We do everything from new home construction to full renovations… and sometimes we simply decorate. The larger the project and the more complicated is where we really thrive.

What were you like growing up?
Curious! I loved to understand how things worked and how they were made- I still do. I spent my days riding my bike with the neighborhood kids when it was sunny and building with Lego’s and playing board games when it was rainy. Since it was the late 70’s-early 80’s, there was an innocent freedom to explore my world as long as I came home when my mom rang the bell.

I grew up in a home that my parents lovingly decorated and maintained on their own. We rearranged rooms by the season, and my mom changed the wallpaper and cabinet color at least three times in 10 years without professional help. She took a class to reupholster some chairs and sewed all of our curtains. My dad closed in our back patio and finished the basement himself—with our help, of course. Much of what I learned about construction and decorating came from my first decade and that house and the house pride that I shared with my family made a huge impression on me.

Pricing:

• We do an initial two-hour consultation for $295 and will give you as many ideas and design solutions as we can pack into that time.

Contact Info:

• Address: 8553 E San Alberto Dr.
  Scottsdale, AZ 85258
• Website: www.modascapes.com
• Phone: 480.422.1855
• Email: adrienne@modascapes.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/modascapes
• Facebook: facebook.com/modascapes
• Twitter: twitter.com/modascapes

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