Rebecca Jane Phillips is an interior designer whose path to the field ran through two careers most designers never touch. She started in Texas real estate, working as an agent who staged homes to make them sell. That hands-on staging work taught her something a design school rarely does: how a room feels to a stranger walking in cold. Over time, the staging stopped being a sales tactic and became a creative pursuit in its own right. Alongside that, Jane had built a genuine career in performance, appearing in New York City and Los Angeles, touring with Bob Hope's USO troupe, performing at international pageants including Miss Thailand and Miss Universe in Thailand, and earning a spot as an LA Clippers cheerleader. Those years on large stages, in coliseums and theaters, gave her a sense of proportion, presence, and spectacle that now shows up directly in how she designs a room.
Jane started this blog because the conversation around interior design tends to skip the messy, personal parts. Her voice comes from a life that moved between a Texas real estate office, a USO plane where she learned routines over open water, and courtside seats at the Forum. She writes about design the way a performer thinks about a stage: every element earns its place, and the room should do something to the person standing in it. A recurring question she returns to is how sentiment and beauty can share the same space, whether that means hanging a son's painting where a gallery print might go, or keeping a family heirloom from being swallowed by a "curated" scheme.
Readers of this blog can expect writing rooted in real decisions: how staging a Texas property first revealed the logic of livable design, what performing for crowds of thousands teaches about scale and sight lines, and why a room built around personal meaning outlasts any trend. Posts draw on Jane's years working across real estate, entertainment, and design, and they stay specific. For more on Jane's work and background, visit the home page or get in touch directly.