From International Development to Interior Design: Arlington Woman Follows Her Passion
Eva Suwak started designing homes last year.
Eva Suwak is raising twins, speaks five languages and previously had a career in international development and finance, but design has always been her passion. And the Arlington woman seized on that in the fall, starting her her own interior design business after her friends saw her home and asked, "Can you do that for me?" “Maybe I have something here,” Suwak remembers thinking. And so, Home Fashion by Eva launched in October. Suwak, who is from Slovakia, grew up watching her father build the family's home, and she picked up how to work with tools. “I have a natural interest in how things are made,” she said. “I want to take it apart and put it back together.” Suwak started out designing a room for a friend’s father and went from there, …
