Have you ever wondered how some of our favorite HGTV stars ended up in interior design and real estate?

But did you know that this professional creativity came from his time working at Disney World?

“They asked me to handle the kids' rooms for these model homes that were in the Southeast.

David Bromstad smiles

“But I wasn’t technically doing the interior design.

“The reason why animation wasn’t working for me was because it was too simple.

Drawing the same form over and over again,” Bromstad confessed.

David Bromstad tattoos

“I realized I loved building.

I’m like, ‘I like creating spaces.'”

I’m obsessed with [interior design].

David Bromstad and HGTV stars

It’s the passion I never knew I was going to have.”