Pamela Portwood, Allied Member ASID
Founder and Interior Design Principal

Blazestone: recycled glass tile

Interior design is a second career for me. Before becoming an interior designer, I spent 18 years working as a free-lance writer, specializing in art criticism. As a newspaper and magazine columnist, I received a fellowship in art criticism from the National Gallery of Art.

The knowledge and love of aesthetics, art history and architecture that I gained from my first career is part of what drew me to interior design, and they continue to inform my design. After I returned to college to study interior design, I realized that I wanted to work in green design, to do design that was socially responsible in terms of improving both the environment and people’s health.

After three years of working in interior design at American Home, I founded Greener Lives, LLC as a full-service interior design firm specializing in healthy and eco-friendly homes and lifestyles. Now I also have returned to writing, and my column on green interior design appears monthly in the Tucson Green Magazine.

I am an Allied Member of the American Society of Interior Designers and a member of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.

I hold an AA in Interior Design from the Art Center Design College, a BA in English from Rhodes College and a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona.