Using her marketing talents to promote the new Debra Gould Home Collection, within a year of starting her design business Debra was on the cover of Boulevard Magazine for their story “Art with a mission: functional pieces with plenty of flair” by Maureen Licata. The May/June 2001 story explored 4 artists handpicked by Debra who […]

Debra Gould makes her HGTV debut and first TV appearance with an 8 minute segment on Sue Warden’s Craftscapes, November 2002. Like one of those cooking shows where you have to show the recipe at various stages of completion, Debra demonstrated the multiple steps she goes through to design and paint a jewelry box.

Captivated by the idea of designing home accessories, and inspired by the work of Cathy Cooper, former marketing consultant Debra Gould started experimenting with how to make floorcloths. She built her first website, debragouldhomecollection.com to sell her work and within a year was discovered by author Lisa Curry Mair who was writing a book on […]

(Toronto) November 13, 2002 – Believing life is the adventure you make it, Debra Gould closed her marketing consulting business, sold most of her belongings and moved from Toronto to Salt Spring, BC 4 years ago. “I needed to get out of my comfort zone to give me the freedom to reinvent my life,” she […]