After attending design school and staging sets for television productions, Karen Mills turned her designer’s eye to private homes. She brings a unique combination of talents into her client’s interiors; mixing casual comfort with luxurious materials to create an inviting interior, while helping her clients avoid thousands of dollars in costly mistakes.
Mills’ 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 10am and Classical 1660 KXTR Saturdays at 10:30am called Living Large plus more recently a show in the works called “Living Green with Karen Mills” on worldgoingreen.com.
Karen Mills’ interior design firm, Interiors by Design, Inc., was nominated for Kansas City’s Small Business of the Year in 2009, 2008 and 2007 plus she was the first designer in Kansas City to be invited to the exclusive “Kohler Experience” at the Kohler Design Center. Besides designing interiors and being an on air personality, Mills is also a nationally published writer, paid speaker and she designs décor in her spare time.
Her commitment to the communities where she designs is clear. She’s served as marketing director for Team Impact, an international anti-drug and alcohol youth program officially recognized by the State of Kansas (after Karen secured the endorsement from the Governor and the Mayor), she’s on her city’s Sustainability Task Force, and on the liaison committee for the local chamber of commerce, plus she regularly emcees charity events throughout the year.
Karen graduated from the University of Kansas where she studied Interior Design and Radio/Television/Film.
