About Us

Ginger Tarr Shea is a Florida licensed interior designer and a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Ginger is a third generation Tampa interior designer and owner of Ginger Tarr Shea Interiors in Tampa. Her grandfather, Russell H. Tarr, built a seven story furniture store at the corner of Kennedy Avenue and Hyde Park Avenue in Tampa, just blocks from her current studio location on South Brevard Avenue. Mr. Tarr was a pioneer in the furniture industry with a building and business said to be the finest south of the Georgia-Florida border. Mr. Tarr was President of the National Retail Furniture Association in Chicago in 1928. Ginger's father and uncle continued the family furniture and interior design tradition with the family business, Tarr's Furniture Company, which was established in 1904.

Ginger Tarr Shea has a Master's Degree in Interior Design and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from Florida State University. Ginger was an instructor at the International Academy of Design & Technology in Tampa, where she taught classes in open office system design, medical office design, and designing for the elderly and handicapped.

Ginger is certified by the National Council of Interior Design Qualification - Cert. No. 7956, and by the American Society of Interior Design - Cert. No. 970086. Her State of Florida Interior Design License number is ID 0000357.

Ginger's professional career experience includes:

• John Tarr Interiors, Tampa 1978-1979
• Design Images of Jacksonville, 1983-1984
• Ginger Tarr Shea Interiors, 1984-present