FAQs
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Redesigning redecorating and repurposing people places and things. Repurposed up-cycling, not often synonymous with the design industry, is the starting point for his process, as you won’t find any typical drawings or portraits scattered about his workspace. For Weston, the beauty of repurpose-up-cycling comes from using an existing space, creation or devise to guide his thought process and to shape his ideas and frame his design. The results are revived, one-off designs that have his signature; whimsical framed artwork, vibrant painted wood, an infusion of space and times, striking designs and delicate patterns that tell a story.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
An award winning artist all his life, Weston attended Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University and spent most of his career in design. As an entrepreneur he has owned several companies, including a printing company and advertising agency which won a national award in 1990 for a business model concept on which Kinko’s/FedEx based its nationwide chain three years later. In 2006 he gave up everything to live his life’s dream, and pursue a five-year sabbatical to publish two books and explore art and design and home improvement. After being self-employed for over 30 years, he now has opened The RePurPosed Punk and is redesigning refinishing and repurposing, people places and things, out of his store located in Naples Florida.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
When I traveled the country with my books and my artwork I found myself in peoples homes hanging artwork they had just bought from me. I could not help but feel, in most cases, that they needed help with design and that the painting they had just bought did not fit their dreary and outdated interior. Finally, I would help by just rearanging the furniture and pictures on the walls -- this soon lead to then asking me to help redecorate and design -- and then paint and colors. After 20 years of helping people for free, and redesigning many of my friends and families homes, I decided to start a design business -- and so now I am 'The RePurposed Punk' -- LOL -- and I love it.