“Well, I won!
Couldn’t believe it.”
“I got one guinea pig to bite and my business was started,” she said.
Years later, she looked back on herDesign Starexperience in an interview with Washington Gas.
“Week by week went by and I was the last one standing,” she said.
“I had to keep it a big secret until the show aired.”
Regarding her success, she said, “I have been so blessed and I am so grateful.”
“It’s crazy how life seems to work out.”
“It did not come easy,” she admitted to the outlet.
However, that firm Tiffany Brooks Interiors has come a long way since she posted that first Craigslist ad.
“My superpower is organization.
It’s so boring, isn’t it?”
“I was living with my mom, my brother, my husband and my son.
The furniture had marks and scratches.
People don’t even pick up cups.
I make spaces beautiful for everyone else, but my house is a hot mess,” she joked.
“But I guess they liked it.”
WinningDesign Star, she admitted, had been life-changing.
“It basically just raises your clout level a million times,” she said.
“It takes so much time to curate a room,” she explained.
“You want your space to display the personality of you and not the furniture shop.”
On top of that, she called the move “lazy.”
According to Brooks, her son “basically told me he would rather sweep floors.
Not sure what one has to do with the other.”
Her post wasn’t merely about motherly complaining, but was apparently seriously seeking an intern to take over.
About a year later, shetweeted, “My boy knows CAD essentials.
The series was a big enough hit that the data pipe announced a second season the following year.
This time out, the field of competition was being expanded.
Pre-pandemic, visitors to cable news broadcasts and talk shows would typically appear in person in a TV studio.
She then works with them to help them “choose which proposal works best for their family.”
Understandably, Brooks responded enthusiastically to the news.
“I am so incredibly thankful and full of joy!
I’m thrilled I can finally share this with you all,” she wrote onInstagram.
