the industry, and she pursued that interest through school, graduating with Honours from N.A.I.T in the Interior Design Technology program. After five years working for a local design company, she decided to strike out on her own and form a company called Revolving Rooms Interior Design. In 2008, Kendall and Sheldon decided to team up and begin tackling design-build projects together. “We realized there was a need in the local industry for a company that had both design and contracting capabilities under one roof,” Kendall recalls. “That was a niche that was going unfilled. Typically, clients would hire a designer and a contractor separately, and oftentimes the communication between the two companies wasn’t as strong as it should be – sometimes it was even non-existent.” “The client would hire a designer, they would design something, they would sell that package to the client, and then they would be out of the picture for the rest of the construction scope,” she elaborates. “We found that left the contractor kind of high and dry. Because some things may have been communicated to the designer and not the contractor, and then those things wouldn’t transfer to the site. And if halfway through the construction process something came up and they needed access to the designer, the designer might not be available.” “Both Sheldon and I saw that happening and we realized there was a really good opportunity for us to work under one roof,” she says. “From there, our businesses really took off. The advantages NOVEMBER 2023
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