# @fiucarta on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc9AMY0LMRM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19203190-fiucarta-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-04-29T23:19:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** FIU CARTA (@fiucarta) — https://gondola.cc/fiucarta

## Caption

This extraordinary group of #FIUGRAD students created and ran their own interior design business while attending graduate school full-time. Two years ago, Yaileen Obregon, Daniela Purrinos, and Jennifer Perez— also known as Girls Who Do Interiors— started a multi-disciplinary creative studio so they could begin exploring the interior design industry first-hand. The trio managed everything from starting a business to designing small homes all while balancing a full course load. 

“We are a team of women who started Girls Who Do Interiors right before the pandemic reached Miami, FL and in the middle of graduate school. When starting, our initial goal was to become interior design student influencers and to build a brand to showcase our day to day lives. We collectively felt that we were not exposed to the professional side of interior design and only that of the culture we learned through our university – that craving turned into the idea that we can be the ones who display the reality of what it takes to be an interior designer. That quickly turned into potential clients approaching us for services and led to us to ask the big question – ‘why not?’ Shifting our mindset from student to business women and overcoming the mold that was created for us in school was the biggest challenge.”

Girls Who Do Interiors is now taking their next big step with their first full home renovation in Coral Gables, FL. After receiving their Master’s in Interior Architecture, they hope to continue growing their small business and pursue their life-long dreams of being full-time interior designers.

#fiucarta #realtriumphs #classof2022

📷: The Loving Lens Photography

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