After designing and staging sets for television productions, Karen Mills turned her designer’s eye to private homes in the Kansas City area. She brings a unique combination of talents into her client’s interiors, seamlessly integrating classic looks with modern concepts.

When the Midwestern native made up her mind to bring the drama of an on-camera television set into America’s living rooms, she rapidly carved out a niche redesigning interiors including staging homes for resale.

A seasoned interior design professional, Karen specializes in making homes more attractive, using existing furnishings and often uses her skills to stage homes for resale. Many of the homes she stages sell for full price quickly and some have sold during the initial open house.

Karen’s creative approach to design has been widely covered in the media, which led to a co-production deal with Entercom Broadcasting for her own design show on News Radio 980 KMBZ Sundays at 1pm and Classical 1660 KXTR Saturdays at 10:30am called “Living Large”. Recent media coverage includes the Kansas City Star, Indulge, NBC 41, Fox 4 TV, Symphony Designers’ Showhouse, KCH&G magazine, Time Warner Cable, Olathe Daily News, Olathe Sun, The X magazine, Shawnee/Lenexa Sun, Flourish magazine and the Kansan among others.

Karen was also the first designer in Kansas City to be invited to the exclusive “Kohler Experience” at the Kohler Design Center and Waters Spa. When Karen isn’t designing interiors or hosting Living Large, she spends her spare time lecturing on design, making televised appearances, judging design competitions, conducting training seminars, designing home décor products and writing for national publications.

Her commitment to the communities where she designs is clear. She’s served as marketing director for Team Impact, an anti-drug and alcohol youth program now officially recognized by the State of Kansas after Karen secured the endorsement from the Governor and the Mayor, she’s a member of the Liaison Committee for the local Chamber of Commerce plus she regularly emcees local charity events throughout the year.

Karen graduated from the University of Kansas where she studied Interior Design and Radio/Television/Film.

For more information about Karen Mills, go to karenmills.net and for more information about Living Large, go to entercomkc.com/livinglarge.