Introducing... Flashbent!

After a year of interior design school and with some hearty instruction under my belt, I present to you Flashbent. We finally started our own company that not only provides interior design services, but also event planning/coordination, personalized web shoppes, and potentially more to come!

Simple logo that is clean and crisp.
Purposefully does not shout "interior design" since the company encompasses many fields.

We are a husband and wife team whose mission is to use the creative gifts God has given us to serve others (1 Peter 4:10). The name Flashbent is precisely that. Flash is to show or showcase. Bent is a natural talent or inclination. So Flashbent is to show our God-given gifts.

Specifically for Interiors, the goals of the company is to provide interior design and decoration services for residences in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. This can include floorplan design, floorplan remodels,  color consultations, furniture selection/acquisitions, and furniture arrangement.

We also have our first real (as in not family) Interiors client in San Francisco!!! A huge thank you to my colleague (Anna) for recommending me! As the design process unfolds, I will post more about the color and furniture selections.

Stay tuned!

{Rashida}

Why "Inside the Frame"?

Naming a blog, a new company, or even your kid (!) for that matter is no easy feat. People are becoming more and more clever — if that's how you would like to describe it — these days and it seems like the rest of us are just trying to catch up.

Thankfully my younger sisters and I had a made-up band name when we were younger. (We were never actually in a band, nor could we sing or play any instruments, but that hasn't stopped many "artists" these days.) "Inside the Frame" could be a cool band, but it also seems fitting for a blog name.

Me and the younger sisters

Frames are used for pictures as decorations. They are used to construct a house, a door, a window, etc. In photography or cinematography, the artists uses their view finders to frame their subject at hand, providing the viewers a window into the life of their subject. "Inside the Frame" peeks into my perspective of interior design, giving you a "frame of reference" for how I have shaped my design aesthetic. This includes some basics from my classes, designs and decorations that I have found to be neat and, being extremely vulnerable, showing what I've tried out in my own house...eek(!).

This is not my house, but I wish it was. This is pretty cool!

...And that's where "Inside the Frame" came from.

For all you bloggers out there that don't have made-up childhood band names or don't have the audacity that some celebrities have when naming their kids, try this site... it may help you.

My next post will be something actually related to Interior Design...I promise. :)

Hasta luego!

{Rashida}

Welcome!

Helloooooo from sunny California...well at least it is today! My husband encouraged me to start this blog so here goes nothing.

thanks hunny! (Me and the hubby in Singapore)

After being out of college for 5 years and working in Workplace Strategy, I recently returned to school to pursue a certificate in Interior Design. Why? Well, I like doing home projects such as painting, decorating, organizing, etc and apparently my skills are not too shabby. So I decided to make my foray into interior design more official by actually taking classes from some professionals.

The goal of this blog is to share some things I've learned, some things I think are neat, and some things that I have done around my house.

Stay tuned for what's coming next.

Enjoy!

Parasailing in Bali

{Rashida}