Today we’d like to introduce you to Catherina De Nicolo.
Catherina, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
Denfit Design was born in the heart of a young girl who wanted to design houses and transform spaces. Since I was a little girl, I was always drawing and painting the walls in my house. While I was growing, I was getting more involved in the arts world. I started taking interior design courses since I was 13 years old. After completing my midschool homeworks, I’d run to my after-class courses near my parents’ office to start developing my design skills because since I was a little girl, I knew perfectly what I wanted to do in the future. So, I started to work for it at my young age. When finished my Architecture degree at college at the age of 22, I started working with very great architects and contractors, but my dream of my own company was always there, beating in my heart and running in my mind.
The first years after finishing college where an important key to my career. I got so much knowledge and experience from my supervisors at that time. But the new time just arrived, the moment where I founded Denfit Design. It all started with very very tiny projects, including my family and friends’ houses, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, all of them were very low-cost budget. But they were so special to me because all of those projects they built the professional I am today.
Every great company or every great professional start from the very beginning, and that process it’s a necessary step to learn how to be consistent in life and business. Every project started being bigger than the previous one and that growing has taken me where I am today. Even if I have an entire house to design or if it is only a small space within a house, I enjoyed so much. I do my best always, trying to accomplish each client’s expectations so they can see their investment was really worth it.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Of course, it has not. Any successful road is smooth, it is not an easy path to go through. It’s a road full of challenges, ups and downs, and obstacles to overcome.
The struggles along the way will always be there. They do not appear in your life only when starting a business or a project, they are like a permanent company in your life. Even when they bother us so much, they are constantly reminding us we are more capable than we thought we were. They are always bringing out the best of us.
In this industry, for me one of the struggles was to find clients who trusted me to develop their dream project. In order to find that, I had to trusted myself first. There were moments where my mind was playing against me, telling me I will not make it. But my faith reminded me that my efforts were worth it, and I was more than enough to be successful and get the clients I needed.
After starting trusting myself, everything started to change. Since that moment, I have not been able do double doubt my capacity to develop great projects. With that on my mind, it has been amazing how confident I am to show my best to every client.
Struggles will always be your best impulse to jump into a new step. Take advantage of them; use them for your growing and not for your defeat. They could be any kind of struggle, but whatever it is, bring out the best because the best is always yet to come.
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Denfit Design is a Full-Service Interior Design Firm located in Miami, FL.
Denfit is well known for its work ethic and design consulting expertise for Residential Projects. With ambitious and functional ideas, spaces are made out of an endless options based specifically on clients’ needs.
Our main goal is to bring our clients a new atmosphere, each design has to reflect each person’s lifestyle and personality in order to make them feel comfortable at their home or workspace. At the end of the day, that is the place where you spend the most of your day at. It must be yours at 100%.
From large-scale to quick makeovers, Denfit Design is able to accomplish each project to its best result. Attention to detail and Design Concept are the main approaches and paths that we use to reflect our work.
At Denfit Design we strongly believe that, as a design creatives, our main role in this industry is to bring life and joy to every habitable space. By combining materials, mixing textures and colors, creating a functional layout as well as the right furniture placement, we can exceed our client’s expectations. The fact that we can turn visions into reality is a blessing because the best gift we can get at each competition is to enjoy our client’s happiness and thankfulness.
Architectural Designer, Creative Director, and Founder of Denfit Design, Catherina De Nicolo, is an Architectural Design Consultant and Interior Designer. She started this path in Architectural Design and Construction Industry when she was very young. In her early teenage, she started been involving in renovations and new construction projects with the family business in her birth country, Venezuela. With a degree from school of Architecture, she proceeds with the Interior Design Master to grow in knowledge and experience to offer customers the quality service they aspire for to achieve the goals and vision for their dream homes. Today, with only 29 years old, she has almost 10 years of experience in this amazing world of Home Design and Remodeling Industry.
In 2016 she moved to the U.S and in 2017 she founded Denfit Design, her Interior Design Studio, and immediately applied to the Florida Board of Architecture to get all the necessary knowledge and requirements to serve this great Miami’s versatile clients. She has been already admitted and accepted by the Florida board of Architecture to get her own Architecture License which is a bonus in this industry because her skills are not only Design & Decor, but code compliance and analysis. A very important point of knowledge in this industry because trusting your project to someone who knows the code requirements can lead you to a great project success and help you save time and money to avoid future issues with design compliance.
Nowadays, she works not only in South Florida area but with the eDesign services she offers, she is bringing her skills to clients and projects outside of the U.S. She has been taking advantage of the technology and she is currently working on e-Design projects in Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Spain. Her goal is to keep growing and non-stop studying to be always up to date in tendencies and code requirements, innovations, and tendencies to have a great variety to offer to clients. Her fundamental values such a work ethic, transparency, patience, and responsibility have led her to get credibility and been recognizable by clients who truly value her job.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://denfitdesign.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denfitdesign/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denfitcorp/
