Lisa Gilmore was very nervous when she met her clients Peter and Dotsie for the first time in early 2020. “I’m such an 'in-person' person, and it was over Zoom because everything was starting to shut down then,” says the founder, principal designer, and CEO of Lisa Gilmore Design in St. Petersburg, Florida.
After living in Singapore for over a decade, former Chicagoans Peter and Dotsie were moving to a 1,522-square-foot condo in downtown St. Petersburg, a “very urban, tropical city,” says Gilmore. “Miami can be really cold and modern or over-the-top Versace, while St. Pete, to me, is very approachable. It’s so rich in history: You have old Florida craftsman bungalows next to a Spanish Mediterranean from 1923 and then a modern house. It’s also a big artsy community. I love working with artists, and the clients really appreciate art.”