“Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integraton, love.”
~ Louis Kahn
The Process
The Sanctuary Blueprint is a refined, intuitive approach to design — shaping spaces that reflect your personal essence and elevate your daily experience.
Every Blueprint begins with deep listening — to the architecture, its history, and your values and aspirations. From this, a cohesive, soulful environment emerges, seamlessly blending design, psychology, and spirit.
A true sanctuary goes beyond aesthetics. It is shaped by energy, story, and the quiet details: the fall of light through windows or the impact of a single artwork that anchors presence.
The process is calm, discerning, and visionary. It transforms your home or workspace into more than a well-designed setting — it becomes an expression of alignment, peace, and elevated living.
If this approach resonates, trust it. It’s often the first sign your space is ready to evolve.
Sanctuary Foundation
The starting point for creating a sanctuary — revealing the patterns that shape your space and your life.
In a private two to three hour session, Kathleen guides you through a focused exploration of your environment. Together, we uncover the spatial, aesthetic, and energetic patterns influencing how your space feels and functions.
You’ll come away with clarity, direction, and immediate steps to create greater balance, beauty, and alignment — whether in a single room or accross your entire home.
Many clients say this session alone changes how they see their space — and themselves.
What you receive:
- Sanctuary Summary — a personalized map of how your environment can mirror your deepest values
- Insight into hidden and obvious influences shaping your space
- Actionable steps that create harmonic shifts immediately
- A foundation that sets the stage for deeper collaboration
Sanctuary Integration
Where design and intuition merge to create harmony and alignment.
This pathway goes deeper — blending practical design with intuitive insight. Together, you refine your environment so form and function work seamlessly with the seen and unseen qualities that make a space feel alive.
This is the ideal path for meaningful transformation without undergoing a full renovation.
What you receive:
- A cohesive design strategy tailored to your lifestyle
- Curated recommendations for flow, art, furnishings, and layout
- Thoughtful adjustments that bring immediate impact
- A refined color palette and symbolic elements that support well-being
- A practical scope that extends well beyond the consultation
The Sanctuary Alchemy
Full-home transformation where design, art, and spirit converge.
Your home becomes a living sanctuary — a masterpiece that unites your inner and outer worlds. This is Kathleen’s most comprehensive offering: a complete design partnership from concept through completion.
Clients who choose this pathway are ready for a full transformation — creating a space that reflects their deepest values, aspirations, and next chapter of life.
What you receive:
- Coordination and execution across design, architecture, and project management
- Collaboration with artisans, builders, and specialists
- Curated integration of art, furnishings, and personal artifacts
- Ongoing evaluation throughout the duration of your home’s evolution.
Resulting in:
A sanctuary that embodies beauty, meaning, and harmony — a true extension of your highest self
If you’re unsure which pathway is right for you, that’s completely natural. We’ll discover it together during your complimentary consultation.
Kathleen is an accomplished Interior Designer with extensive design and management experience in both residential and commercial remodels and new build projects. With well over 25 years of design/build expertise, Kathleen blends architectural expertise with intuitive and practical insight to create spaces that are both exquisitely designed and deeply aligned with her clients aspirations.
Through her award-winning design firm, Tower Design Inc, Kathleen has delivered projects nationwide. With the Sanctuary Blueprint, she offer a more personal dimension—helping clients to uncover hidden patterns and to clarify their vision, to transform homes, workplaces and retreats into everyday sanctuaries that support growth, creativity and belonging.
Love From Clients
Working with Kathleen was a revelation. She doesn't just design spaces — she helps you remember what truly nourishes your soul. My home now feels like a sanctuary and I feel so enlivened by the changes.
S.B., San Francisco
