ABOUT ILISE

Trissa Ilise is an Atlanta-based interior designer, currently obtaining her B.F.A. in interior design at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Growing up she was a fan of watching HGTV, looking at the pretty pictures in Better Homes and Gardens, and making vision boards of her dream house. When playing with her dolls, she found herself unimpressed by the cheap plastic houses they lived in and yearned to give them something better. With the help of her mother, Trissa would upcycle shoe boxes into plush beds, tissue boxes into pink marble tubs, and eventually went on to create a complete doll-sized penthouse with a real leather couch.

Her passion only grew from there; She developed a knack for event planning, interior decorating, and even dabbles in creating her own home decor. Trissa’s end goal is to become a hotelier with locations worldwide.