At a young age Toni realized that, with an eye for design as well as a strong interest in fashion and popular trends, interior design would be a promising career path to follow. While attending Ranch Buena Vista High School in Vista, California, Toni took advantage of the opportunity to study design while continuing to build a strong base of fundamentals and cultivating a career path for the future. After graduating in the top ten percent of her class, Toni continued her studies at The Design Institute of San Diego. The Design Institute of San Diego is a private college located in Southern California with a strong interior design program considered to be one of the top design schools in the United States. While at DI Toni was fortunate enough to participate in an internship program to gain real-world experience while earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.While attending college, Toni worked in the retail/customer service business. Toni’s pleasant attitude and leadership skills quickly found her a position as store manager at Cold Stone Creamery. It was this experience in a supervisory position and the Interior Design internship that allowed Toni to be quickly promoted to a management position at a design & construction company. After accumulating the required amount of work experience and completing the testing and certification process as set out by the California Council for Interior Design Certification (CCIDC), Toni is now a fully Certified Interior Designer with over six years of professional experience encompassing a wide variety of residential and commercial design & construction projects with budgets ranging from ten thousand to five million US dollars.