Melanie Lybrand
Happy House Interiors, California, happyhouseinteriors.com
Melanie Lybrand, a graduate of the interior design program at West Valley College in Saratoga, Calif., is a certified practitioner of Flying Stars Feng Shui. She’s lived in several areas of the country, and her time in the Midwest and Eastern U.S. has given her a creative take on California style. She loves blending disparate styles, eras, and colors to devise a magical mix that’s surprisingly harmonious and refreshingly unique. She draws inspiration from faraway places and ordinary objects, from fine art and folk art to the glimmer of gemstones and the textures of rocks.
Melanie Zaelich
Happy Place Interiors, Minnesota, happyplaceinteriors.com
Melanie Zaelich is an award-winning interior designer who’s known for her down-to-earth approach and creativity. As the only designer with a consult-based, à la carte business model in the Twin Cities, she’s transforming the way people experience interior design. Zaelich’s talent has garnered regional and national design awards, and she and her work have been featured in regional publications like Midwest Home and Axios Twin Cities, as well as on prominent national platforms such as Apartment Therapy. Her passion for design and her belief in its power to bring happiness to people’s lives are contagious.
Katelyn Bloomquist
Midwest Design, Minnesota, midwestdesignmag.com
As editor-in-chief of Midwest Home magazine, Katelyn Bloomquist leads the strategic content development across the print, digital, and social media platforms of Minnesota’s only stand-alone, subscription-based home and garden publication. Her leadership has helped elevate and transform the Midwest Home Design Awards competition and the magazine’s Luxury Home Tour event, where thousands of discerning visitors peruse multimillion-dollar new builds and remodels across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Bloomquist’s expertise in the home design industry has led her to regularly appear on TV, emcee galas, judge competitions, moderate panels, and speak at industry events.
Holly Bell
The Bell Design Group, Illinois, hollybelldesign.com
Holly Bell is an architectural interior designer based in Chicago’s North Shore, and she brings more than 13 years of residential design and construction experience to her role as owner of Holly Bell Design. With a corporate background in marketing, a deep passion for architectural design that was ignited in high school, and a love for European travel, she has successfully converted her love for all things classic into designs for clients in Australia and Chile, as well as stateside projects in California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Hawaii, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky.
Charles R. Stinson
Charles R. Stinson Architecture + Design, Minnesota, charlesrstinson.com
Charles R. Stinson is an internationally acclaimed architect whose work brings together people and home, and their relationship to nature. Using form, line, light, and materials to erase the boundary between inside and out, his compositions invite and celebrate the human connection to the beauty and rhythms of the natural world. He’s a featured architect in the Master Architect Series, Charles R. Stinson: Compositions in Nature, and his work appears in numerous architectural journals and magazines. His most recent book is “Charles R. Stinson Architects: Connections.”
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