About
Hey there! I’m Victoria Wilson and I’m a designer. I’ve built up my business, Calypso Design Studio, as a way to do what I love.
My biggest passion in design is building homes and interior spaces in SketchUp, drafting plans in AutoCAD, and teaching these skills to both fellow designers and design students.
It’s pretty safe to say that most people these days are very visual. We live in a very visual world right now. Which is why 3d modeling truly is one of the most helpful tools a designer can use to get their point across to their clients. A designer may easily understand the line drawings of a floor plan or an elevation of a wall of kitchen cabinets. However, most clients are going to understand a 3-dimensional representation better.
Showing a client a flat line drawing of a wall of new kitchen cabinets is not going to have the same impact as visually placing your client in the room before it’s even built. It’s easiy to visualize what their new kitchen will be like if they can “stand” in front of their new kitchen sink and have a look around.
This is where I come in… I want to help you skip that big learning curve that comes along with figuring out a new piece software. Skip the trial and error and learn from mine instead. Learn my carefully developed system to help speed up your process and get to that client presentation faster.
And for all those students and other designers out there that want to bring the 3d experience into their projects but need more training, I’m here to help. I love to share what I’ve learned through my years of education and experience. Over the years I’ve held private tutoring sessions and group training courses. I’m currently working on a series of e-books and video tutorials that hopefully will be ready to share later this year.
Growing up I was always sketching out new furniture layouts for rooms in my home. Always rearranging furniture when I could. When I realized I could actually go to school to study interior design, I threw out all those other possible careers on my list. You know the usual – marine biologist, paleontologist, free spirited artist.
With the encouragement of a couple great teachers and my supportive family, I was able to study interior design at O’More College in Franklin, TN (now part of Belmont University in Nashville, TN). There I studied under some truly great instructors. There are even a couple that to this day I would not hesitate to go to for advice if I felt the need. O’More was fun, eye-opening, and challenging.
It was there that my nerdy self fell in love with drafting in CAD and modeling in CAD (before there was SketchUp or Revit) and then discovering SketchUp my senior year. It was also there that I discovered a great designer by the name of Dee Bynum of Bynum Design and D.Luxe Home in Nashville. I did my internship with him my junior year. As a former student of O’More College he looked there for an intern and I’m so glad he did. From working with Dee, I’ve truly learned what it means to do what you love. We’ve worked on so many great projects over the years. I’ve been with Dee from his working in his home office to moving the office into Marathon Village and setting up D.Luxe Home and then moving into our larger space there.
For more than 16 years I’ve been fully immersed in the interior design field. It brings such joy to my life. There’s nothing quite like seeing a home go from sketched out ideas – to floor plans – to 3d computer models – to construction documents – and then into construction through to completion. Over the years I’ve studied with great designers and professors. Worked on great projects with other designers as well as projects for my own clients. Taught students through private torturing sessions. Worked on both interior design projects as well as full home design projects. I even had the privilege of teaching a summer course at O’More College one year. I’m excited to see what the future holds.
Now what...
Hopefully this little sneak peek into what I love to do and where it all came from has inspired you to do a project with me.
If so, reach out. Click one of the links to email me or to find out how to request a project.
Let’s make some magic happen…