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Arim Williams Hicks was born and raised in Wingate, NC, a small, rural town in eastern Union County that has changed very little in decades. After graduating from Forest Hills High School she went off to Appalachian State University where she earned her Batchelors degree in Interior Design with a minor in Business. During her last semester at App, she married her 8th grade sweetheart, Dave, and they moved to Cabarrus County where he took on a job teaching middle school and she started work with Home Depot as a Kitchen Designer.
It wasn't long until Arim was discovered by a Union County custom home builder with decades of experience and building under his belt. As the new Lead Designer with the Williams Company, Arim worked with over 400 clients, coordinating all aspects of design between the client, the vendors, the subs and the builder. Sadly in 2008, like many, she lost her job and the Williams Company closed its doors. It was then that Arim and Dave, now new parents, decided that she should be her own boss, so they moved to Wesley Chapel in central Union County and "Inspiring Designs" was born.
With the building industry in a total landslide, it took some time, but through her networking Arim, pregnant with her third child, was introduced to the owner of Providence Partners of NC and he quickly hired her as the Lead Designer. Providence Partners of NC built under Simonini Homes' brand and was Simonini's entre into neighborhoods as this is how Arim began her professional relationship with Simonini Homes.
During her tenure with PPNC, Arim assisted close to 30 clients with their new, custom home builds in a micro-community called Charndon Village. It was during this time that she also began freelancing for Simonini Homes and "Inspiring Designs" became "Arim Nicole Interiors".
Now, the mother of three, Arim strives to navigate her clients through the daunting reality of building a home, from 1800 square foot luxury townhomes in Dilworth complete with elevators and wine cellars to almost 5000 square foot full custom homes up on Lake Norman.
After 20 years of experience in the new home construction industry and with close to 450 homes under her belt, Arim has perfected the construction process and how to calmly take clients from concept to creation while sticking to budgets and builder's schedules and in turn has established herself as one of the greater Charlotte area's most experienced interior designers specializing in new home construction.
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