Katie is a co-founder and designer at Sable House Interiors. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning from Miami University in Ohio and began her career in commercial real estate, working with consulting teams in New York City and Los Angeles. After several years using demographic research and geographic mapping to guide site selection for major offices and retailers, Katie followed her passion for design and founded Lupine Design. Together, Katie and Trish have since evolved the firm into Sable House Interiors, building on its established foundation while shaping a new vision for its future.

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Katie has always loved the way that interior design is a coordination of planning, strategizing, producing solutions and following processes blended with creativity and flexibility.  She first worked in the field doing marketing and business development for a small growing design firm and then returned to school to study Interior Design specifically after much encouragement and support from her manager.

 

While attending design school in Scottsdale, Arizona, Katie held leadership roles and served on the board of ASID as the region's Student Liaison coordinating with the student bodies of six different schools in the area. To broaden her design experience, Katie accepted an internship with a high end tile and hard surfaces dealer and showroom to gain product knowledge and learn ordering processes and logistics from suppliers in the design industry. Upon graduating, she did freelance interior design work in the Phoenix Metro area until moving to Crested Butte where she worked with kPd Studios for three years. She founded Lupine Design in February 2020 with big dreams to help people's vision of a beautiful, functional, and healthy lifestyle in the mountains come true in Crested Butte!

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Outside of the studio, Katie enjoys trail running with her husband and two adorable pups in the summer and skate skiing, backcountry skiing and resort skiing right out her back door in the winter. She also loves to travel, which is always a great way to find new design inspiration.

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"My favorite parts of interior design are the conceptual phase, when anything goes, and then creating a plan to put all the ideas and puzzle pieces together during the design development phase."