In 2013, Althea Clark moved to Cornelius North Carolina.

Althea has been assessing kitchens for 23 years, first as a real estate agent with N.B. Taylor & Co. in Sudbury Massachusetts, and with other agencies from Concord to Marblehead. She obtained her Certificate of Interior Design at Massachusetts Bay Community College, while working with her mentor, interior designer Eileen Feldman (ASID). Althea spent one year as a bath designer at EXPO Design Center in Burlington, designing and selling 33 bathrooms. Althea especially enjoys working with space to make rooms more functional and livable, and loves blowing out walls to find more of it.

In Massachusetts, she lived in her dream house, a hilltop Deck House, which had 48 feet of glass walls facing the Boston sunrise. The guest bathroom had a sink in a converted Victorian dresser and Mexican tiles on the floor and tub surround.