Photo courtesy Lilium Floral Designs
Photo by Judy Wiley
Photo courtesy Lilium Floral DesignsContemporary rules at Colleyville shop
A leap of faith was required to start a contemporary floral design shop in a former bank building in Colleyville during a recession, Lisa Pritchett says.
But following her passion for flowers has paid off. A little more than four years later, Lilium Floral Designs has grown from a staff of two — Pritchett and one designer — to employing six people full-time with five more working part-time as needed.
The bank building has a charcoal gray exterior bearing the white Lilium sign, and an interior once filled with teller windows and customer service cubicles has been turned into airy, clean-lined spaces whose crisp, modern colors echo the company's nontraditional floral designs. Shop dog Winston, a Wheaton terrier, shares the office space in back.
"This is my midlife crisis," says Pritchett, who trained sales employees at Fortune 500 companies in her previous life.
