Roberta Writes – A plethora of Art with Valentina Cirasola Of Valentina Designs #art #homeinteriors #books

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Today, I am thrilled to introduce an amazingly prolific and multi-talented artist, Valentina Cirasola. Valentina is not only an artist, but she is also an artwork herself with her inspirational fashion and jewelry designs.

Over to Valentina!

Tell us about your passion for interior design. You especially enjoy designing kitchens. Why is that?

I never intended to design a lot of kitchens in my interior designer career. I was almost compelled to do it. Studying the American customs, with the eye of an emigrant, I soon realized that kitchens and baths are big ticket items when selling a house.
If these two spaces are designed with all the amenities required, with modern technologies and some luxury, they raise the price of the house and allow a faster sale. Although Americans eat out lunch and dinner most of the week, having enviable kitchens and bathrooms is their obsession, even if they use only the microwave to warm up food.

I enjoyed designing kitchens for all the technicalities, they were all custom-made with exotic but not extinct woods. Designing all the other rooms were just as fun, especially when clients allowed me to express my creativity. I enjoyed designing furniture and built-in units that my trusted Italian wood worker executed with professionality and meticulousness. I cared to design original homes to reflect my clients’ personality and lifestyle.

(In a few rooms, you will see some of my photographs hanging on the walls).

A selection of Valentina’s home interiors photographs:

Picture caption: I love this entrance. It is amazing!

You love color. How do you incorporate color into your designs? Are your clients receptive to bright colors?

Returning to the concept of house resale, my clients had lived in safe colors that sell the house fast, until they met me. After seeing me dressed in pleasant, well harmonized colors was easier to convince them that a little change of colors would improve their well-being, vibrate their lives and confidently sell the house when it was time to sell. One of my clients said that walking in her living room, she felt like eating the colors, as I chose them from my food list I had planned for that day.     

I adore Valentina’s use of colour!

You have a unique and exciting fashion sense. What advice do you have for people wanting to spruce up their wardrobes?

My designing career started in Italy as fashion designer and stylist. It was my real passion after I achieved the Italian degree in fashion. My wardrobe became an example for others, as I put on only what I liked and not what the fashion industry dictated.
My advice is:
1. Buying a few quality pieces, not necessarily signature pieces, that can be easily mixed with colors and styles will save money and time when getting dressed.

2, Never buy trendy pieces that will go out of style in six months.

3. To make the task easier, one must become familiar with the personal season colors, textures, patterns and the right metals for jewelry to add light to the upper body area.

4. Make-up and hair must communicate with the complexion and eye colors. The hair is like the frame for pictures. We frame artwork to highlight it and to add value to it. If the hair color doesn’t highlight the face in a natural way, the face will look like a cheap picture.

5. Be original, be yourself and not a copy of someone else.

You can read more about Valentina’s fashion sense here: https://valentinaexpressions.com/2025/10/08/elton-john-and-me/

You can learn more about Valentina’s jewelry designs here: https://valentinaexpressions.com/2025/10/18/what-people-do-in-the-streets/

Tell us about your books? What is your main purpose in writing books about your design ideas?

I didn’t have a particular purpose when I started to write books, other than enjoy writing, but then I thought, since I haven’t had children, it would have been a shame to let all my knowledge go to waste, so I decided to leave it written down so that anyone who wants to learn part of my design art can do so by reading my books, articles, or various publications. In any case, when one becomes an author, one acquires a certain aura, and the books I’ve written helped me open several important doors to advance in my career. That I knew it was going to happen, and I was so honored my books were well received.

Picture caption: A collage of Valentina’s books available here: https://tinyurl.com/nhpy4dsx

You also produce some beautiful artworks. What are your favourites? Please share pictures. 

I started painting after many years I had left it thinking I would not paint anymore. In my design work, I spent many hours, days, months and years designing by hand the spaces I was hired to remodel.

My free hand dictated by my free spirit was “put in a box” by hard precision architectural drawings, calculations, rules and codes. Although nobody does hand drawings in the architectural style anymore, it is a revered art form in this field. I was proud of my ability to hand-draw architectural spaces, room perspectives in multiple points, axonometric, birds eye views of rooms and gardens and much more. The freedom of painting from fantasy is a totally different thing and I missed it for years. Today, I am in a new phase of my life. Being a color analyst and therapist, I am only working with personal color harmony. It made sense to return to painting art and interpret the world they way my eyes see it.

A selection of beautiful floral artworks by Valentina:

Thank you, Valentina, for being a wonderful guest.

About Valentina Cirasola

Picture caption: Profile image of Valentina Cirasola

In my third book RED – A Voyage Into Colors, I wrote:

“…and I was born.
I saw the rainbow and heard my mother’s colorful voice. Since then, my life has been a succession of colorful events, it was like opening a window onto a world where color is the main protagonist, giving meaning and value to everything.”

I was born to be a protagonist in my life. I had ambitions and goals to achieve, but I had to do it in another dimension, where I was more in tune with my free spirit and creative nature.

At a certain point, many moons ago, I took the biggest leap of my life. With a fashion degree in one hand and lots of courage in the other, I moved from Italy to the United States without knowing a soul. Thinking back of my life as an emigrant is still very painful, it wasn’t easy at all, but I knew what I wanted, how to find it and how to achieve it. My Italian savoir faire, my passion for colors, style, and love of beauty would have taken me places.

After studying at an American University, I became an interior designer and opened my own design studio, where, for decades, I designed beautiful and harmonious homes.

In my home designs, colors were never an afterthought; they were always the foundation of each project, and everything else began with colors. I used spectacular colors combined with lighting effects that created evocative atmospheres, without ever losing sight of my clients’ needs for a comfortable and livable home.

My American degree made me more than a simple decorator, it gave me the opportunity to learn about architecture and how to execute drawings with architectural rules. I learned all aspects of building or remodeling a home; learned about all hard surfaces and material that beautify a home; I learned to design furniture, lighting, stair, floor, gardens and much more. I was busy for decades.

Over the years, I wrote several books and even hosted my own television talk show on a Californian station. The show was based on Design Universe as I saw it.

My message has always been to not be afraid of colors.

I have encouraged people to see colors from a different perspective to discover what colors can do and how they can transform anyone’s life.

After I achieved all my goals, put a check mark on everything I pursued and had a successful career, I asked myself: “what else was there to do?” I was at a crossroads and had to decide fast my next plan, as if my life was starting again.

I searched for new things to do, but every search took me back to colors. When I thought I knew everything about colors, I found a private school in England that would teach me more about this fascinating subject. Then a Brazilian color expert came along and learned colors with a different twist. I became a color therapist and a color analyst.

Now, I dedicate myself exclusively to personalized color harmony, through which people discover their own power and emotions.

Other than traveling, painting, gardening, entertaining, visiting museums and enjoying theatre productions, chroma-harmony is my next phase of my life.

Find Valentina

Facebook Personal: https://www.facebook.com/valentinacirasola

Facebook Professional: https://www.facebook.com/InteriorsFashion

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valentina_designs

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentinadesigns

Blog: https://valentinaexpressions.com

Books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/nhpy4dsx

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/vcvalentina

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  3. Beautiful work and interesting interview!

    But this statement stood out: “Although Americans eat out lunch and dinner most of the week, having enviable kitchens and bathrooms is their obsession, even if they use only the microwave to warm up food.” It might be true for some people–the ones Valentina sees– but it’s not true for most of the people I know. And, I love color! 😊

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    1. Hi Merril, I must admit that most of the Americans I meet physically are in Valentina’s category. Neither of my male cousins who both married Americans eat at home. They eat all their meals out and about. That being said they don’t eat breakfast at all. I love Valentina’s beautiful designs and creations.

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    2. You are right, all the people I know or gravitating in my circles, eat out most of the week. America is a big country, I can’t generalizing. I am sure there are many people who cook, however, after long hours of work and commuting, I doubt people have a great desire to cook every night. But that’s my opinion based on my experiences. Thanks for the visit.

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  4. Ladies, thank you for the honor of being able to enjoy this post. COLOR is something I admire and appreciate having in my life. Which is one reason why I keep the walls of my home white, so I can always add color wherever and whenever I desire. ❤

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    1. Hi Annette, that is an interesting idea, to keep your walls white. Mine are all a yellow cream inside and outside we have a darker yellow cream and Burgundy. Mind you, I recently painted our long passage white and I’m hanging my paintings along it on both sides 💖

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  18. What a lovely interview with Valentina, Robbie. I’ve followed Valentina’s blog for a while and it’s lovely to see her on here and get to know her a bit more. How wonderful you work with colour and make it the foundation of each of your ventures. Colour is something that not only affects our mood but when the colours that align with our features, preferences and make us feel good, our natural expression shines through. For me I like certain colors in my home and also in my closet, and it’s interesting to feel how much more ‘Me’ I feel when I wear colours and combination of colours that speak to me.

    Moving countries is certainly a leap of faith, but on the other side if it is possibility. And it is lovely to see you carry positivity and believing in possibility through your work with art and colour. Those are beautiful floral works of art. Thanks for sharing 😊

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