Alice T. Chan Featured in the San Francisco Chronicle Stylemaker Spotlight
It's always fun to be interviewed and featured in the media, but to actually see it in print is way too cool! A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a freelancer for the San Francisco Chronicle who pens a weekly column for the Home & Garden section called the Stylemaker Spotlight. It basically profiles individuals in the design community and asked if I would be interested in the opportunity...uh yea!!!The article published online yesterday afternoon and will be printed in this Sunday's paper.
Part of the process was a photo shoot at the newspaper's headquarters in downtown San Francisco which basically took 10 minutes. There was nothing glamorous about it. I came dressed (good thing I didn't wear white pants as I originally planned because it was a white background...I would have looked naked from the waist down or legless), did my own make-up, and posed. He asked if I preferred to smile or not...my response, "I look like a total B***H if I don't smile!" So...here I am smiling. Hope you enjoy the article. It's a pretty good write-up.
"Back in 2001, Alice T. Chan was selling her Bay Area home and, at the same time, so was a friend of hers. Chan staged her own place, while the friend hired a professional and paid a premium. The experience got her wondering how she could offer her services to others. "I kept thinking to myself that I could have done it for him and probably for less, but I just wasn't sure how," she recalls.It was a career idea that Chan just couldn't shake. So she eventually enrolled in an Accredited Staging Professionals course and continued to work full time as a legal assistant until she could afford to devote her days to interior design and staging. READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT SFGATE."
