Richard W. Rodriguez
Chelsea McGraw’s decision to take a leap into entrepreneurship was a necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention type deal.
She got fired.
“Is that not the most cliché thing? I always knew I would end up working for myself, but I didn’t expect it to happen so soon,” she says. “At the time, there weren’t many full-time interior design jobs available in Fort Worth.”
So, out on her own was less compulsion than imperative.
McGraw, who earned a bachelor’s in interior design from TCU in 2015, is the creative behind Fount House, a boutique interior design firm in Fort Worth.
She opened Chelsea Morgan Designs in 2018 at age 25. Four years later, she opened Fount House Interior Showroom. Last year, she merged them into one entity — Fount House.
Fount House offers several levels of design services and welcomes designers and the public. It also features McGraw’s own line of custom furniture.
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