Meet Elizabeth Embry! Elizabeth is the showroom manager and associate designer at House Dressing Interiors. She is married to Cooper and the couple has three children; Charters, Price and Margaret.

We want to thank Elizabeth for spending time with us recently and telling us more about her life and love of Hall County.

Question: What is your background in interior design?

Answer: “I graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Furnishings and Interiors in 1993, then I worked in Atlanta for a couple of years. Got married and I commuted a little bit from Gainesville, but that was just too far to drive. So, then I just dabbled in other jobs until I had kids but I would still do some things for friends and painted furniture and things like that. When this opportunity was told to me, I jumped on it because my children were at the age where I could go back to work full time.”

Q: What do you love about working at House Dressing Interior Design?

A: “When I first interviewed for the job, it was actually as a position of shop manager, which was the retail element of our interior design firm. And because I’ve worked in retail part-time over the years and I love that. Well, quickly I was being asked by friends if I could help them do little fluff jobs in their homes. It kind of transitioned into me doing more interior design and it has been really such a great learning experience for me because having been out of the industry for several years, I’m working with Elizabeth and Anna, the other interior designer who is in her twenties and I’m just learning so much from them. At House Dressing we are a true team. I think that’s the thing that I love the most about this job is that we truly do all just work together and help each other. And it’s just been a blessing for me.”

Q: What are a couple of your favorite restaurants in Hall County?

A: “We are enjoying what’s going on downtown in Gainesville, with all the revitalization of everything and excited about that fourth side of the square, but usually on the weekends you can find us at Avocados or Hopscotch or YellowFin.”

Q: What is something on your bucket list?

A: “I do love to travel and I think more travel would be great. We all haven’t been traveling much for a little while, so I’d love to travel. I think one of the most important things to me as far as a bucket list item would be that my children are happy and healthy and fulfilled in their lives. That would make me the happiest to see that happen while I’m alive.”

Q: Who is one of the most interesting people you’ve met in Hall County?

A: “I think the person that has affected me the most would be Cooper’s grandmother, Charters, she’s ‘Grandmama Charters’ to us. She was the matriarch of his family. She was one of, if not the first class of women, to go to the University of Georgia. She was a teacher at E. E. Butler…she just has a legacy that I hope my daughters will learn from. She was a neat, neat lady and we all just looked up to her with such respect.”

Q: What is your favorite thing or something unique about Hall County?

A: “I grew up in South Georgia and I moved here after we got married but I consider this as my home. I just think it’s neat that we still do have a small town feel, even with the amount of growth that’s going on.”

Q: Where do you see yourself in five or 10 years?

A: “I’m not sure, I don’t know about 10 years, but I hope to maybe be a grandma. Just enjoying a different phase of life with Cooper because hopefully at that point be in a little more relaxed situation. Our last one should be out of college.”

Q: What was the first movie you saw in the theater?

A: “I remember seeing a Star Wars movie, but I don’t know if that would have been the first one I saw.”

Q: If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would it be and why?

A: “Greece. I think just because I’ve seen other people traveled there recently. I mean, it looks so beautiful and the food looks amazing.”

Q: Who are some of your favorite musicians?

A: “I’m a big country music fan.”

Q: What three words mean ‘home’ to you?
A: “Family, Friends, and Food.”