Was the last time you updated your home the year Nixon resigned? Or is your new house just waiting to be made into a home through cozy colours and dashing design? If this describes you, Capilano College has just the course.
Ivana Cappelletto, a unique designer with a thriving graphic design business in Vancouver, has recently moved to the Sunshine Coast. Cappelletto has expanded her design portfolio to include interior decoration.
"People liked the properties of my own house and wanted consulting on their houses," is how Cappelletto describes her segueing into interior design. And once she moved here and discovered the mad pace of building on the Coast, she knew she had found a new niche.
Cappelletto has been in the design business for the past 23 years. While she still has her office and two employees in the city, Cappelletto is delighted to be able to work from home whenever possible. She found it was much easier it was to be home with her two children.
"We made the move [to Sechelt] on a whim because we just found the property so beautiful. We bought it as a retirement property and then said 'Hey, we can make this work,'" she said.One of her past unique designs was a paper wedding dress.
"My theory is we should only have to get married once," she explains.
So she did Ñ in her paper dress on the TV debut of Weird Weddings on LIFE network. After the ceremony, she and her husband went out on a raft and burned the dress. She's hoping to repeat her 15 minutes of TV fame on another network. Cappelletto has entered the Design Superstar Challenge on HGTV.
The four-week course Cappelletto will be teaching beginning Oct. 11 runs Tuesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. She urges students to bring a picture or to email her a jpeg for the class to work from. That way, once the course is over, the budding interior designers will have a partial solution for, in some cases, long-standing decorating problems.
"It's pretty cheap interior design advice," Cappelletto states.
If you'd like more information about Cappelletto and her talent, the website at www.cappelletto.ca for the graphic design or www.cappelletto.ca/decor, or call Capilano College to register.
