My Story

My name is Andrea Simões, and I am a 24-year-old Portuguese designer! I’ve always been fascinated by design. Since I was a little girl, I remember paying attention to small details – architecture, lighting, colours, and furniture. I don’t know if you’re like me, but design makes me feel.

Fast-forward to when I was 18 and needed to choose a college degree. Unfortunately (or not), I focused too much on the financial and stability side of things and ultimately didn’t follow my heart. 

I earned an Economics and Management BSc, and let me tell you, those were both the best and worst years of my life. I made life-changing friendships and enrolled in various organizations that always kept the design spark alive. However, curriculum-wise I was a complete failure. I hated every subject; consequently, my grades reflected my lack of passion.

In my final year, I couldn’t take it anymore, so I took action. I enrolled in an Interior Design Course at the Lisbon School of Design while still in college. With tremendous effort, I managed to plough through and pass my finals. 

Despite this, the worse was yet to come: I needed to find a job. Now, I wouldn’t just have to skip Finance classes and stay in my room designing the perfect living room or spend hours choosing furniture I can’t afford. No. I would need to work 40 hours a week in a job I hated, looking through the window and imagining I was living a different life. Or so I thought.

However, destiny had other plans for me, and I am living proof that every cloud has a silver lining. When COVID hit, I didn’t have a job, but I had lots of time to think about my future and what I didn’t want for my life. I’d rather be a living failure than a numb success. With this in mind, I started searching online jobs for designers, but soon I discovered that most jobs I wanted required more formal education. So, I enrolled in a BSc in Design and started freelance writing and making original graphic design pieces to earn some money.

As my experience in the field of design grew, I started feeling more and more capable of creating my own space of creative free expression. A place where all design lovers could acquire valuable information and make smarter choices when decorating a space. 

I created The Timeless Designer to share my passion for design, specifically home décor and to help people create beautiful spaces independently of budget. Our mission is to bring valuable content through a combination of expert advice, shopping guides, and how-to’s. Our purpose is to help you transform your house into your dream home. We aim to transform the mundane into a feast for the eyes. Everywhere. Every time.