Connecticut woman has her eye on a possible hit TV show
Sara Touijer is a talented interior designer.
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A local woman has turned her passion into what she is hoping will be a hit TV show.
Sara Touijer is a talented interior designer in Wilton. She has 12 years of experience designing homes for clients in Westchester County and beyond.
Last year, Touijer teamed up with Rachael Ray for a series called "Rachael Ray's Rebuild" that aired on Hulu. On the show, the Kansas native helped design homes for 10 families from Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Ray's show was inspired by her own experience of losing her upstate New York home to a fire in 2020.
"It's a heartwarming show. It really shows you that you can through the most devastating moments of your life, you're able to come back from it," says Touijer.
Touijer's neighbor was Rachael Ray's manager, and that's how she got to be on the show.
"One day two years ago, he's like, 'Hey, you want to be a designer on a TV show?'" says Touijer.
Now she's trying to start her own show.
"I created my own concept a couple years ago called "We bought a house, Now what?," says Touijer.
Touijer is putting up her own money to get her show off the ground. She says she's overcome a lot in her own life to get where she is now.
"Change is uncomfortable. It's so hard. But in those areas of being uncomfortable is where you grow the most, you learn the most," says Touijer.
She says she loves what she does and that it comes across on TV. "I think it was meant to be, 100%," says Touijer.
With the high cost of materials in the tri-state, she's not in Kansas anymore.
