Oregon Home | 47 while Creviston hangs a skateboard on the wall. It all works — an eclectic mix that feels personal and soulful. “I see this with every couple I work with,” Callero says. “Every single time, the couples learn about what they each like and how they each relate to things like color and pattern.” Callero, who is self-taught, has seen her own style grow and change throughout the process. With kids in the home, she’s less in love with open shelving in the kitchen — “Never again, for me,” she says — and more confident and bold in how she sees and uses color in her designs. Her overall color palette has changed a bit, but not her intuition with color, something that attracts clients to her design work. “I’m always drawn to color — across the spectrum of tones and hues,” Callero says. And living with someone who has his own aesthetic drives and desires — and who works as a therapist — has given them both a great understanding about the everchanging conversation that needs to happen about how to occupy a home in a partnership. Callero has built those discussions into her design process, always starting with those crucial conversations necessary to really get to know her clients. “Design is kind of like marriage,” Callero says. “We are never like: Oh, we got it, we figured out your style and my style and how to blend it. It’s been great to just realize that we’re always going to be tweaking things, in every house we live in, forever.” emiliadecor.com “You can get a degree, but that doesn’t really change the way I see the world and the way I express myself and the way that I help people,” Callero says, on being self-taught.
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