Our Team
As a team, we believe we bring a unique combination of skills, knowledge and experience that help us create interiors that inspires both beauty and function…in a way that is totally unique to you. Here’s what we bring to the table:
Stevie McFadden
Meet Stevie. An accidental entrepreneur with an unorthodox career path. After completing her graduate studies in Organizational Behavior, she held various Leadership and Consulting roles, all focused on helping organizations optimize the employee and / or the customer experience. Her love of design fueled the launch of a side hustle focused initially on residential interiors in 2014. Stevie passionately believes that the physical environment and user - employee, customer or patient - experience are deeply connected and recognized an opportunity to marry her love of great design and her organizational behavior expertise to create transformative places with the launch of Flourish Spaces.
Berry Bland
Meet Berry. She is our Junior Designer with a passion for textiles. Berry graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in design and has been working in the field since 2010. With over 10 years of design experience Berry just has a knack for reading clients from day 1. She very quickly picks up on a clients lifestyle and spatial goals and is able to land on a design that you never even knew you needed! (And yes Peaches her French Bulldog joins us at the studio from time to time).
Eva Apgar
Meet Eva. Technical Designer extraordinaire (and so much more). She joined the Flourish team fresh out of VCU's design program. Eva is able to bring a concept to life through photorealistic renderings that allow our clients to imagine themselves in the spaces we have designed before they become a reality. Her design aesthetic? Arts and crafts. When it comes to architecture, she’s obsessed with historical preservation and the stories behind the original bones of a home. When she's not working you'll find her teaching art classes, taking care of her children (Lil Lady and Tony) & and searching for Cryptids (google it).
Eugenie CalderÓn
Meet Eugenie. She started her career in procurement working with factories and fabricators to manufacture a line of storage accessories. Then, as a buyer for an online retailer, she worked with manufacturers to source products and created white label lines for distribution. Eugenie runs our procurement business managing every detail from contract execution to final installation. She works alongside our vendors, clients and other 3rd parties to ensure that no stone is left unturned by the time installation day rolls around.
Christi McFadden
Meet Christi. She plays air traffic control here at Flourish as our Project Manager. A UVA grad with a systems engineering major she’s always been a problem solver with a process-oriented mind. She has over 10 years of Project Management experience which she uses to ensure we are all meeting our deadlines and that all projects are on track. The second she foresees issues she reaches out to clients with the situation and suggested solutions, a true problem solver at heart! Christi also handles all invoicing and payment with our vendors. Name sound familiar? Yes, she is Stevie’s sister in law!
Laura Shuford
Meet Laura. She is our Office Administrator but really there is no title to describe the work Laura does. From deliveries & installs, to furniture repair & returns, you name it and Laura can figure out a way to make it happen. She’s done yeoman’s work to support the team managing the day to day tasks that keep the studio running while allowing the rest of us to focus on client deliverables.
Erin O’Connell
Meet Erin, originally from Long Island. Our newest member of the team! She is fresh out of a Design program who has joined us to learn all things design. Whether that is design support and execution or help with sourcing new textiles and products. She loves residential design and getting the feel of a client's everyday life and how to create a beautiful space. What is her design aesthetic? A nod to the classics with saturated walls with a contemporary and traditional twist. When she is not working she is trying new recipes, finding any artisan fairs to attend to, and thinking of different ways to redecorating her home (for the 10th time this year).