Another thing that only true fans will know is that Debra Salmoni went to college for marketing. Despite knowing that interior design was her true calling, the city she grew up in did not have much of a design market. She has said that interior design felt like " a really unattainable dream " (via HGTV). She worked in marketing for a while, but she eventually found her way to her career in design. She started at Timothy Johnson Design before founding her design company. Creating a successful design career helped Salmoni get the gig for "Scott's Vacation House Rules."
A direct message on Instagram is actually how Salmoni got the inquiry to work on the show. A makeup artist that worked with her husband passed her name to a casting director looking for a designer, and the casting director messaged Salmoni out of the blue. However, Salmoni almost missed the opportunity!
"And I thought it was spam," Salmoni told TV, Eh? "They followed up a few times. And then, finally, I replied, 'Is this serious?' We had a conversation, and it went really, really well ... Within six weeks, I was on TV, filming with Scott [McGillivray]. I'd never done television before. No desire to be on television. It's really serendipitous."
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