Want to be inspired? This exclusive essay by Interior Designer & Architect Ili Nilsson is your ticket! She's the founding partner of Georgia-based TerraCotta Properties, an award-winning firm known for their highly personalized and stylish designs. Having grown up with a structural engineer father in Puerto Rico, Ili’s passion for design and construction is in her blood (she grew up sketching houses and shadowing her father, after all!). For Cultivate, she divulges why she thinks downsizing is cool and supersizing is not, and how you should think about creating the kitchen of your dreams.