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By Donna LaPre
Special to the Rappahannock News
Walking into Mimi Forbes’ house, there is a presence of flowers everywhere, especially lilacs: strewn in print across upholstered furniture, gracing the collection of dessert plates hung on the walls, on pillows and in frames, as artwork.
Ms. Forbes loves flowers, gardens and all things decidedly feminine. New to Rappahannock since early this year as a resident, Ms. Forbes has big plans for her little yellow house. She envisions French doors leading off the kitchen to an outdoor eating area, a bedroom extension overlooking a garden, more gardens and a garden shed. Renovations, fabrics, color and furniture are Ms. Forbes’ mind all the time, actually, because she is an interior design consultant, owner of Lilac Farm.
Career as
consultant
A career as a design consultant was seeded into Ms. Forbes’ future when she bought her first dwelling, in 1975. Living in Los Angeles at the time, with her husband, she needed ideas for decorating and furnishing her condominium, so she enrolled in a design class in UCLA. Her teacher became a mentor and Mimi Forbes became his client initially, learning as she went through the process. When Ms. Forbes and her husband bought a house in the Bahamas, the mentor/decorator was unable to complete their collaborative work, so Ms. Forbes had to finish it herself. Sometimes getting pushed pout of the nest is a good thing. “The Designing Woman”, Ms. Forbes’ first official company was launched.
Her travels
From the Bahamas, after a divorce, Ms. Forbes moved to Denver, then West Palm Beach, then left the U.S. altogether for the South of
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