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behind
the scenes
Amanda Areopagita is the Designer and creator behind Interior Motive Design. Since 2014, she has grown Interior Motive Design's presence in the Central Florida area, as well as traveling across the U.S. and internationally for design projects.
Amanda graduated with a Bachelors in Legal Studies from the University of Central Florida but after 13 years as a Litigation Paralegal, she returned to college for her second Bachelors in Interior Design from the International Academy of Design and Technology in Tampa, Florida. Although considered late in life to switch careers, her moves were bold, life changing and her design journey began.
Amanda first acquired practical, hands-on design experience with Herman Miller, a recognized innovator in contemporary interior furnishings and solutions for commercial spaces, and with Robb & Stucky, Florida’s largest residential interior design studio at the time.
After a couple years of starting from the bottom, Amanda embarked on one of the greatest design experiences of her life as an Interior Designer for IKEA, the globally known Swedish multi-national conglomerate for furnishings and home accessories. She acquired a wealth of knowledge of how humans live and behave at home and valuable handy person skills, including learning how to build and install an entire kitchen.
After a few years, Amanda left IKEA and created Interior Motive Design offering home staging and interior design services. For almost a decade, Amanda expanded her interior design expertise with residential design, from kitchen to bath planning, in addition to commercial design projects including a concert venue, restaurant, law firm and MedSpa. She also teamed up with West Elm to collaborate on marketing events. One of her greatest design adventures was designing three houses in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
The St. Thomas houses were under going renovation and Amanda suffered a knee injury while playing Flag Football. Two weeks post-knee surgery, aTV show contacted her to be casted as a Design Host for a house flipping show. With only a few months to rehabilitate her knee, she completed the St. Thomas installation and shortly after began filming A&E’s Zombie House Flipping Seasons 5, 6, 7 and 8. The first episode aired in January 2023 and the last in April 2026. A total of 33 episodes, 33 houses, 3-year production. Check out the episodes streaming now on the Hulu and A&E apps!
noteworthy projects
2017 Sunset Yoga
Orlando, FL
2018 The Social
Downtown Orlando, FL
2018 Career Tipper's
Podcast
2019 Immerse Festival
Downtown Orlando, FL
2021 Set Design
Orlando, FL
2021 St. Thomas, USVI
2022 Philadelphia, PA
2023 Daytona Beach, FL
2023 Neveyah Thai & Sushi
Downtown Orlando, FL
2022 - 2026
Zombie House Flipping Reality TV show
Tampa, FL
Orlando, Florida - An outdoor social yoga event in the Milk District of Orlando, Staged multiple vignettes of outdoor patio seating.
Orlando, Florida - After decades of its existence, formally known as Sapphire Club in the 90's, redesigned this bar and concert venue located in the heart of Downtown Orlando on Orange Avenue
Amanda was able to share her life design story in her journey of switching careers, starting all over and giving up everything she had to become an Interior Designer
🎧 Listen to the podcast at the below links
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/career-tipper/id1361430703?mt=2&i=1000414270054
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UC2ITGFi5JCwwGid5h2SJ?si=c1myY3odQWaHxIJDAili8Q
An art, dance and music event taking Downtown Orlando's city center for 3 days with over 45,000 attendees. Teamed up with West Elm to design and stage the outdoor VIP lounge area by the main performance stage on Orange Avenue
Designed and furnished a studio set for a 4-person talking panel and staged a house for commercial ad.
Mountainside property with three houses designed as a short term rental with all furnishings and accessories, down to the fork and spoon. All sourced in the United States and shipped on a container to St. Thomas for installation.
Full scale bedroom design and installation in 72 hours.
Since this short term rental beachfront condo was an active listing at the time, it was designed and renovated in 5 days. Increased nightly rate fees and improved guest review ratings by 2 stars.
Refreshed the design for the new owner of this Thai and Sushi bar restaurant located in the heart of Downtown Orlando Lake Eola
Casted as the Host Designer on a reality TV house flipping on A&E's Zombie House Flipping, Seasons 5, 6, 7, and 8 - 33 episodes, 33 houses