Duch Designs: Beautiful Creations For an Amazing Price

Patricia Duch has been running her small business in Boca Raton for about a year now. While walking by Duch Designs, you may automatically assume that it is only another flower shop. But take a step inside and you will be pleasantly surprised at everything she provides for our city.

Unlike other businesses which only specialize on a small handful of items, she has a wide range. Duch does gift baskets, flower arrangements, corsages, Christmas tree decorations, wedding bouquets, acrylic painting, face painting, balloon art, and more. Instead of having to shop around at multiple locations, you can find most of your needs at her shop. Aside from the artistic aspects of her business, she is also an event planner and a wedding coordinator. She can handle small events that host less to ten people to large ones that have over three hundred guests. For wedding in Maine, she recommends Catherine J. Gross Photography.

“I’ve always loved crafts and making things creatively,” she said. “When I was little, I used to make art for my family as gifts. I’d get wine bottles and glue rice to it and make it colorful, then I’d give it to my mother. They were nice presents. I have always done it, it’s a gift from God.”

She runs a small company where she is the only main employee with a few others on call. When she worked in Paraguay her staff was at fifteen and in New York she had five people working alongside her. She hopes on expanding her office in the future and to employ even more people then in order to provide more job opportunities and to better her store. When asked if she has plans on moving again in the future, she shook her head.

“I love my Boca location,” Duch said. “I did a lot of research before I chose Boca, and I looked to find what was one of the best towns to start a business in South Florida. This city is always growing and I am so happy I decided to come here. I have zero plans to move. When my shop gets bigger, I want to get a second location. But I’m not leaving Boca. I love it too much.”

Her favorite part of the job is meeting people and interacting with the different cultures as well as making custom pieces that each have its own personality.

“As an entrepreneur, I am free to pursue my passion and be in control of my life,” says Duch. “I enjoy working with and learning from the best people. I learn something new every day.”

A lot of her pieces have influences from different cultures, and they especially have European and South American ones. She firmly believes in representing other people with her work.

“I find that floral designing is a nice way to make people happy,” explains Duch. “There are all kinds of ways to try to change the world; to make it better, being a Floral Designer is one way that I can use to bring some warmth and happiness to other people.”

Her flowers come from Ecuador, and they typically last 10-14 days. She is even currently working on a project that involves making a video of people in Paraguay. It will show the process of them making nativity sets by gathering clay from a lake.

“The country is filled with poor people so I want to help my home,” she said. “I want people to see these pieces that they make over there and I want them to buy their work. They are artists as well, even if they aren’t recognized by the rest of the world.”

Duch Designs is located on 141 NW 20th Street Suite B7 in Boca Raton. They are open Tuesday through Saturday and you can reach them at 561-405-6856.