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Reuse and Redesign
Tim and Christina Britt Lewis love coming home
Top and bottom left: Tim and Christina Britt Lewis of Davidson started The Redesign Company, a business that focuses on using what clients already have to beautify their homes. Bottom right: Tim and Christina with their two sons.
Tim and Christina Britt Lewis
SEPTEMBER 2017
18 LAKE NORMAN CURRENTS
“Home is the most important place in the world,” says Christina Britt Lewis, an interior designer in Davidson. After staying with home with her children for seven years, Christina decided she wanted to use her design skills to help others. Before becoming a mother she worked at a small architectural firm as a project assistant. “My husband, Tim, and I were living a traditional life. We were climbing the ladder and keeping up with the Joneses. We felt that there was more,” remembers Christina. “We wanted to spend our lives giving back to the world.” At the time they were living in Bedford, New Hampshire. They sold everything, moved South and started The Redesign Company, a business that focuses on using what clients already have to beautify their homes. In order to keep overhead costs at an affordable price for her clients, Christina works out of her home, alongside her husband. “Word of mouth caused it to grow into what it is today,” says Christina. “While we sometimes buy, we use things that people already have. People can then see its beauty.” In order to make their home feel most like them, Christina