Get to know Nicole Alcayaga in this month’s designer Diaries!
1) What is your favorite BHD project (either that you have worked on or not)?
CHUAN SPA, LANGHAM PASADENA - Work — BraytonHughes Design Studios (bhdstudios.com). I really enjoyed being a part of the team on this project with its decorative elements & fun details.
2) What is your favorite design product?
I have always liked how Johnathan Browning’s pieces combine classic lines with an attention to detail which elevates the designs. Jonathan Browning Studios | (jonathanbrowninginc.com)
3) What (or who) inspired you to be a designer?
When I was going to SRJC, right out of high school, I had a job doing retail displays. Several of the regular customers & my boss at the time encouraged me to look into interior design courses. I had always been interested in how a spaces impact people, and until then, had not considered design as serious career choice. To this day I am still friends with that boss & grateful for her encouragement to get into a field that I love as much today as I did when I first started out.
4) If you could have dinner with any 3 people dead or alive who would they be?
Mel Brooks, Ian Flemming & Julia Child.
5) What is your most used emoji?
😘
6) What was your first job?
Sonoma French Bakery.
7) What are you streaming right now?
Only Murders in the Building
8) What is your favorite snack food?
Dark chocolate covered pretzels.
9) In a parallel universe, what is your profession?
Mystery writer.
10) Coffee or Tea? How do you take it?
Coffee, black.