Interior design more than just colors and fabrics for TJ grad

Photo by Travis Pratt

Tuscan Blue Design junior designer Heather O'Connell works at her computer on a kitchen design Wednesday morning in Frederick.

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The 2006 graduate of Gov. Thomas Johnson High School is working three jobs, all connected to interior design in one way or another.

O'Connell is junior designer at Tuscan Blue Design on North Market Street, a position she has held for about six months.

She also works for Kitchen Gallery in Urbana and has just started at Salvage, a downtown Frederick firm that gives new life to antique furniture.

"I worked with a design firm in Mount Airy while I was in high school," O'Connell said, "and I fell in love with it."

Working at three different businesses gives her multiple perspectives on interior design, O'Connell said.

She graduated with a degree in interior design and marketing from High Point University in North Carolina.

Her technical skills blend well with the creativity of Meredith Ericksen, owner of Tuscan Blue Design.

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Interior design more than just colors and fabrics for TJ grad