Susie Pizzo is the owner of Point West Design, a company she launched shorty after moving to Chicago in 2007. Susie has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and a post graduate degree in Interior Design. She successfully completed the National Council for Interior Design Qualification Exam in 2005 and is a Registered Interior Designer in Illinois. Susie has eighteen years of commercial and residential design experience. Susie grew up all over the world in a military family and has lived in New York, Boston, Atlanta, the Carolinas, Texas, Germany, Italy and South Korea. Susie worked for ten years in commercial interior design before starting her own residential design firm...and has a lifetime of setting up her family's home each time they moved! Susie now lives with her husband and two children on Chicago's North Shore. Susie believes that the best interior design is one that is a true reflection of the people who live there. She also believes that great design does not have to be expensive but instead be a series of well-spent choices to let you and your home's personality shine. Let's get started!