Welcome to Carol Tanzi’s Interior Design and DIY Upcycled World

Meet interior designer Carol A. Tanzi, ASID, a.k.a. The Goddess of Garbage, the pioneer in using recycling and re-use in interior design. Explore the site to view her award-winning interior design work and learn about DIY recycled home accessories and holiday and gift idea projects.

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Carol A. Tanzi, ASID & Associates Interior Design

Celebrating 80 years young this year, and 50 years still working and owning a successful interior design business in the San Francisco Bay Area, award-winning interior designer Carol Tanzi cannot remember when she did not want to be an interior designer. “My favorite childhood pastime was playing with my dollhouse constantly rearranging the furniture and designing cardboard furniture to scale for my dolls. I packed it in a shoebox for easy travel while riding in the backseat of my parent’s car when I was very young.”

Since then, Carol has designed more than a thousand environments for residential and commercial clients. She has an impressive track record for ease of collaboration with architects and contractors and most importantly, her clients are still calling her back to update their original projects. With a proven reputation of designing innovative interiors on deadline and on budget and innate ability to selectively purchase and deliver to the client the right merchandise at the right price, Carol is still creating on trend and classic interior designs for her clients.

Goddess of Garbage Interior and Upcycle Projects

A natural evolution of Carol Tanzi’s interior design business, the Goddess of Garbage emerged in 1997 as a playful yet serious character to promote recycling, reuse and upcycling in interior design. The Goddess of Garbage (aka Carol Tanzi herself) has appeared on national television and in many print publications showing how recycling in interior design can save money and the environment. Carol was a pioneer in using recycling and reuse in her interior design business since the early seventies. She has created amazing spaces using recycled materials including a showcase design at Goodwill in San Francisco and an entire studio apartment that garnered national attention. Her functional DIY projects for creating upcycled home accessories including holiday projects are featured here with easy instructions and materials for anyone to replicate and integrate into their own personal spaces.