Luke Kelly’s journey to lighting design was anything but conventional. Growing up in Westchester, New York, his only design background was an obsession with Legos. Kelly found himself going through a number of jobs—working on an ambulance, in a psychiatric hospital and lastly as a police officer—when a friend told him about his shop on a certain online creative-goods marketplace. “I was like, ‘Maybe I should start an Etsy shop.’ And I looked through Etsy and got the vibe of it at the time, which wasn’t a lot of rustic and industrial-looking stuff,” he tells Business of Home . “I was like, ‘I think I could probably do this,’ so I started finding random items and putting them together and making light fixtures.”

Kelly, who always had an entrepreneurial spirit and knew he would one day wan

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