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In this edition of Love Happens\u2019<\/em> Proust-style Design Questionnaire<\/a>, join us for a peek inside the creative design mind of Nancy Charbonneau, founder of Charbonneau Interiors. Based in Houston, Texas, Nancy founded Charbonneau Interiors in 1999 with the belief that great interior design should always connect who you are to how you live. Since then she and her team have been expressing just that in beautiful customized interiors from Texas to Mexico to Canada, and many places in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nancy Charbonneau, Founder of Charbonneau Interiors<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Inside Charbonneau Interiors<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a child, Nancy Charbonneau would sit by her mother’s side listening to the whir of the sewing machine speed along beautiful fabric, and so began her passion for design and textiles. Thus, after receiving her BA in Interior Design from Georgia Southern University, Nancy’s first venture combined her eye for design with her love for sewing. The result was Woodlands Fabrics & Interiors. Today, her company has evolved into Charbonneau Interiors. A leading lifestyle and luxury design firm offering full-service design including custom, renovation, new construction, and custom textile services. Bringing beauty, function, and peace to her client’s lives through eloquent design is what drives Nancy\u2019s visionary spirit\u2014and the beautiful spaces that she creates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Design by Charbonneau Interiors (Photo by Texas Home Photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Now for a Peek Inside the Fabulous and Inspiring Mind of Nancy Charbonneau with the Lh Design Questionnaire<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

To me, perfect happiness is this place that is inherently peaceful. It\u2019s this mental environment that is incredibly personal, where everything is in balance, purposeful, and fluid, not forced. Living on planet Earth, to seek this peace has to be a conscious decision. And ultimately that\u2019s what I feel my purpose here is: to create conscious and intentional spaces that connect you to this place where you\u2019re mentally able to seek peace and find joy. It\u2019s in this place where I feel like perfect happiness resides, and where you can be your most authentic self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you consider your greatest achievement?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Professionally, I feel our greatest achievement as a firm was completely restructuring our business after 18 years so that we could truly pursue the level of custom design that we\u2019re living in right now. And it was hard. It was this incredible period of change we needed to make so we could start over with a clean slate. Putting one foot in front of the other to pursue this new business plan we believed so deeply in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over our 20+ year tenure in the industry, we\u2019ve woven through retail, design, and now we\u2019ve come to a place where we focus almost exclusively on custom design. And while we have a lot of exciting projects in the works in terms of growing our company, we\u2019re able to do so on a more intentional path, which I\u2019m very proud of and proud of our team for charging forth, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Design by Charbonneau Interiors (Photo by Miro Dvorscak)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

What profession does your alter ego have?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

My alter ego is an artist, specifically a painter. I am, to my core, a visionary and a dreamer. And because of that, I find myself drawn to fine artists and the beautiful, creative, abstract works they produce. I love this idea of being an inherent, unfiltered, true artist. As an interior designer, I am able to access this part of me in some ways. But not to the full extent that I think my alter ego does!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project you will never forget.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Our Meadow Brook project, for a family who is dear friends and a client, is one I\u2019ll never forget. It was one of those projects where we were truly able to create a dream home for our client. And bring to life a place that would just make them happy and bring their family peace. It was a project that was very much so based on a feeling that they wanted. And we were able to be the visionaries to bring something that was so abstract into this physical realm and reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This client has a ranch property in the Texas countryside, which had always been their family\u2019s epicenter. The place where they spent the holidays, had friends over, and where they just loved to be. So, we wanted to bring a piece of their ranch into this suburban family home. We did this by framing professional photography of their horses throughout the home and incorporating rustic materials. We opened the home\u2019s design to be influenced by this family\u2019s love of nature and being outdoors. It was truly one of those projects driven by passion, and really, happiness, which is why I\u2019ll never forget it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n