Adriana Nussbaumer appears as a contestant in season two of the HGTV reality series Design Star. She is 37 years old and a native of Orange County, California. She attended various classes at Mission Viejo College, becoming a self-taught designer, and works as a businesswoman and interior designer. She believes she should win because she wishes to use the lifetime opportunity to share her creative ideas, and inspire viewers with what she calls her handy abilities. She also says that a designer’s best friend is a color swatch, due to paint being affordable and bringing immediate impact to any room.
She calls her personal design style a “why not” approach, and describes it as both fearless and creative. Her other favorite design styles include rustic, eclectic, and casual elegance. She says that designers should often step back from their room and regain perspective on how it’s coming along, and not to be discouraged if new ideas don’t always work the first time. Her favorite designer is Candice Olson, and she says that if she weren’t working as a designer, she’d be a painter instead. Her favorite rooms to design are family rooms, and she’s proud of her sketching abilities, claiming that she can literally sketch for clients within seconds.
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