For months, shed been camping out in her new abode with next to nothing.
It was bare walls, bare floors.
I didnt have a can opener.
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I didnt have a bedsheet, she says.
I have got to become a homemaker.
And boy, has she ever.
The family relocated to be closer to the girls grandparents and cousins.
Their father, Drews ex-husband Will Kopelman, is a native New Yorker.
Rounded shapes are a design signature for her Beautiful line at Walmart, Drew says.
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Our rule for the collection was no sharp corners.
It came from a photo shoot, and afterward I was, like, Do not remove that.
Drews watchwords in designing her home were disarming and relaxing.
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The rug, meanwhile, is shaggy, white, and Moroccan-style.
The kids will probably ruin it soon, she says, but thats OK because its from IKEA.
Its going to be like a bright and shiny cave, she says.
Things are constantly moving around and changing here.
And hes totally right.
If he comes over, Im definitely going to ask him to hang pictures.
(Before stealing hearts as Gertie inE.T., she was doing television and commercials.)
For a while, she even considered making a career out of her self-taught decorating skills.
I could do all my thrifting and shopping; I could make things uniqueI wont ever be cookie-cutter.
I thought I could even do a show around it.
With viewership up 70 percent year-over-year last season, the show has been an unqualified hit.
Everything changed for me.
I just couldnt do it.
Launching new projects is very stressful, Drew says.
But its also extremely fun.
Betting on yourself is a good thing.
If you fail, you learnand then you apply that knowledge to the next endeavor.
And so she poured herself into projects that rest on the idea of Drew being utterly and uniquely Drew.
It just became about a whole world I liked living in, she says.
It all kind of falls into place.
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Designing means creating something from scratch.
Decorating means finding things all over the place and putting them together.
For Drew, being an entrepreneur is both a creative outlet and serious business.
I really love wearing both hats.
I will chase someone down the street and ask, Can I c’mon photograph your shoe?
Its the perfect coral, she says.
Otherwise, I will drive myself absolutely bonkers over passion without outlet.
His advice was, Go out and look at everything.
Then ask yourself what you havent seen and do that.
Its not coming from an ethereal, arty place.
Drew is on a quest to bring beauty to the home through her latest line for Walmart.
She gathers inspiration from swatches, imagery, and social media.
I dont know where Id be on this planet without Pinterest, she says.
(She spent months mixing the perfect sage, one thats a little gray.)
Her latest fixation: how to camouflage electrical cords.
Theres a reason you never see those things in catalogs and magazinestheyre ugly!
But in real life theyre everywhere.
We cant get away from them.
We get challenged, and we doubt ourselves.
I go through that all the time.
At the end of the day, we all have to be brave enough to be ourselves.
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