Desta knew that she was destined for this career from an extremely early age, and she took up an interest in fixing furniture and decorations around the house as a child.
"When I was younger, my mom had me involved in taking [off] my own wallpaper, my window treatments, and even crafts too. We would go to the craft store and she would say 'okay we're gonna make this' so we would go home and I would be the one who ended up making it," she explained in a previous YouTube video.
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Applying to the Toronto International Academy of Design and Technology was a no-brainer for her, and she started working in her chosen field straight after graduating from an undergraduate course in Interior Design in 2004.
By the 2010s, she was renowned for her impeccable taste and clever solutions in her home country of Canada and beyond.
