Design News, Delivered —xx, your friends at Business of Home Why this New Hampshire designer bought an established firm Why this New Hampshire designer bought an established firm The 50 States Project is a yearlong series of candid conversations with interior designers across the country about how they’ve built their businesses. This week, New London, New Hampshire–based Amanda Raymond of Studio Sage tells us how she got over imposter syndrome, became super-selective about who she works with, and learned not to take herself too seriously. What were some of the early influences that drew you to design? I spent a lot of time with my paternal grandmother, whose house was filled to the brim with antiques. She had amazing costume jewelry, and her dining room had deep crimson wallpaper with dragons on it. We would spend days together traveling from one side of Cape Cod to the other, hunting for treasures—most of which are actually in my house today. That was the birth of things, but even as I approached design school, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be when I grew up. I