About Mary Margaret Vasquez and Casa V

For the traditionalist

Mary Margaret Vasquez has been designing home interiors for over 20 years; she:

• Studied art history as an undergraduate at the University of Texas in Austin
• Earned a bachelor’s degree in interior design at Parson’s School of Design, New York City
• Worked at various interior design firms in Dallas, Texas and Orlando, Florida
• Opened her own interior design firm in 1996 in Winter Park, Florida
• Worked on projects in Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, and Tennessee

For the unconventional

• I see endless expensive patterned fabrics, but usually prefer simple natural fabrics with little to no pattern (Fortuny is an exception).
• I would love to live in Mexico, at least for part of the year. Maybe in a big house with small outbuildings, like a chapel or studio.
• Restaurants get bonus points for having a stand-out bathroom design.
• A homebody at heart, I love staying in to look through my large library of interior design books.
• I prefer a vintage dress to a new one because no one else will be wearing the same dress.
• Florida (especially old) is wonderful, but I am happiest somewhere between Texas and California.
• Contrast is visually interesting to me: Gilt furnishings inside a cottage, messy hair with a suit, or casual food served on fancy china.
• I miss the old days of sunbathing with Ban de Soleil, drinking Coke from glass bottles and watching fireflies on summer nights.