Styling Your Home with Vintage Furniture Pieces with Valerie Hernandez

Today's Episode Dr. Raj talks with Valerie Hernandez about her
journey into the world of interior design, sourcing vintage home
pieces for her company, and how her background as a nurse
highlighted how much living spaces impact our well-being. 
Today’s Guest Valerie Hernandez is a registered nurse, wife and mom
of two toddler boys. She started her career in the healthcare field
as that was your dream since the age of 13 and remains a big part
of who she is today. Soon after becoming a nurse, she and her
husband bought their first home in 2016 and have completely
renovated it from top to bottom. As a nurse, she learned firsthand
how our exterior spaces directly impact our daily lives and the
importance of how the spaces in which we live make us feel. As many
can relate during COVID, she and her husband realized their
home was missing that cohesive, curated, and timeless feeling. Her
love for interior design, and more specifically secondhand vintage
decor, became a much-needed creative outlet for her. After a hard
day at the hospital, her new hobby of sourcing, researching, and
mindfully selecting pieces for her home became a complete
transformation of the way she views home style. She decided she
wanted to make her passion more than just a hobby, so she started
her own business Grounded Home Designs. Grounded Home Designs
brings you a refreshing take on mixing old with new. They have
interior decorating services to carefully sourced high quality
vintage pieces for others to enjoy. “We believe in creating
well-balanced spaces that bring Comfort function in a curated space
for years to come. Our goal as a company is to reduce waste by
rehoming high quality vintage pieces and helping others to find joy
in styling their home. We approach our design and sourcing process
with mindfulness, and can't wait to see what is to come as this is
just the beginning”  Grounded Home Designs Website
Instagram  About Dr. Raj Dr Raj is a quadruple board certified
physician and associate professor at the University of Southern
California. He was a co-host on the TNT series Chasing the Cure
with Ann Curry, a regular on the TV Show The Doctors for the past 7
seasons and has a weekly medical segment on ABC news Los Angeles.
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