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I Was The Lead Designer For Missus Hinch's Forest Theme Playroom, And I'm Gonna Tell You The Story Of Why I Wish I Didn't Disclosure, Disclosure, This Is No Shade Towards Missus Hinch. I Really I Really Like Missus Hinch. I Have Followed Her Since She Had 40,000 Followers On Instagram. I Love Her I Love Her Content. She Is A Lovely Person. Lovely Person. This Is Mainly Through The Company Through The Company That I Worked I Worked For At The Time Of Designing. I Will Not I Will Not Be Throwing Any Names If You Wanna Figure If You Wanna Figure This Out For Yourself, You're More Than Welcome To. So I Was Hired By This Company In February 2021. My Youngest My Youngest Child Was Only 4 Months Old At The And I Received An Email From This Asking Asking Me If I Would Have An Interview With Them To Be Interior Designer. Obviously, I Obviously, I Was Really Excited. This Is A Company This Is A Company That I'd Followed On Instagram For A Long Time. I Was Naturally Really Excited. I Had My Interview, And They Took Me On And Then My Contract Over. I Signed It And Got Started Straight Away. Pretty Much Pretty Much A Week Later, I Had A Phone Call From The Owner Of The Company Asking Asking Me If I Would Take On The Biggest Client To Date, Was Missus Hinch Farm. I Was Fangirling. Now, Now, Sophie's House Is A Good A Good Hour And A Half Away From House Anyway. So We Get There, We Get Into The Room, Take Our Measurements. I Take I Take My Measurements, We We Were Given A Little Tour Saw Saw The Llamas, Met Sophie's Spoke Spoke To Her On The Phone We Was We Was On Site For A Couple Of Hours Before And Had The And Had The Hour And A Half To Two Hours Journey Home. I Was So Tired At This Point. I Got Home, And Totally And Totally Forgot I Had A Consultation Booked In With Another Client. So I Woke Up And Had To Completely Act Like I Hadn't Just Fallen Concept Concept No. 2 Began And This Is Where It Changed To The Woodland Theme. I Spent I Spent Hours Upon Hours Upon Hours Upon And I Could And I Could Go On And On About The Hours Designing We Sent We Sent The Mood Board Over. Sophie Absolutely Sophie Absolutely Loved It. Now It Was Time To Get Onto The Room The Full Render, The Full Works. Before Before And Since Then, I Have Never Spent So Much Time On One Render. This Took Up This Took Up A Good Two Weeks Everyday. From When I Dropped When When I Got Home From School, Before I Done The Dinner, After I Done The Dinner. It Was A Constant Thing. Can We Just Got Got Paid 100 Pound For Apparently, Apparently, With The High Profile Clients, We Have To Just Take It On The Chin. So There I Was, So There I Was, Slugging Myself Off For £100 For Their Company! Not For Me. Not For Me. I Didn't Get Any Credit For This. No Mention, No Mention, No Thanks, No Nothing. No Nothing. So After All My Renders Were Sent They Were Sent To Sophie. Sophie, Her Dad Her Dad And Her Trades People Got Onto Creating The Room And Making It All Come To Life. Sophie Then Sophie Then Posted It On Her Instagram Which Was, Really Exciting Really Exciting For The Company That I Worked For. Who Done. I Think Who Done. I Think In This Whole Project, Apart From Go Back And Forth With Sophie's Assistant, Was Me Was Me That Had The Tough Job. The Main Reason The Main Reason I'm Telling This Story Is To Tell To Know Your Worth. To Know Your Worth. I Did End Up Leaving The Company For I Felt So I Felt So Underappreciated From Them From Them That I Put So Much Work This Project. I Got No I Got No Recognition. I Got No Thanks. And I And I Got Paid A Grand Total Of A Hundred Pounds For About For About Three Weeks Worth Day Day And Night. Also Travelling All The Way Go Go To Sophie's House, Spending Time On Site, Taking Measurements, Taking Pictures. £100. And And I Know My Services Are Worth A Lot More Than That. So So I Left And I Started Doing My Own Thing, Which. Because Because I'm Gonna Tell You More About What I Do Now And I Built My Business. You're Worth More Than £100