Minnesotan To Meet: Julia Moss Design's Julia Moss

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Whether it's jewelry, antique furniture or china, more than likely you have something from grandma in your house. Maybe you like that family heirloom piece, but it isn't exactly what you pictured for yourself.

Julia Moss is changing all that turning that old hardware or tarnished china into something made just for you. That's what makes her this week's Minnesotan to Meet.

It's not your grandmother's silver, that's slogan Julia Moss uses inside her Julia Moss Designs showroom, but that's exactly how this stay at home mom turned business owner started out her company.

"This is the next generation silver, you pick a color and you can see the detail and the beauty," Julia Moss said, showing off the before and after of some of her pieces.

Moss turns that silver tucked away in your kitchen waiting to be polished into something that is much more suited for your taste.

Color choices: red, white, black, pink, and some many others, including the latest: pantone, rose quartz and serenity.

After six months of trial and error, Moss finally was ready to turn something old into something new.
Her first piece a silver tray gifted to her form grandmother, Paula, which she baked white.

"I waited and made sure my grandma Paula would be ok with it," said Moss.

Moss promises her clients that new colorful silver back in six weeks.

Her living room soon turned into a showroom and about a year ago her youngest son said enough was enough.

"My son looked at me and said your lease is up, you've got to move on because every surface was covered with vintage pieces," Moss said.

That's when she moved into a Minneapolis space.

"One thing led to another and maybe I'll do a space and we went from pop to popped," said Moss describing how she found her Minneapolis location.

As for her grandmother Paula, Julia says she'd be proud

"I think that my grandmother would like that it wasn't being used in on capacity and that I was bringing it up to date," said Moss.