Our Team

 

KAREN KOPICKI, RID, NCIDQ principal

Award-winning International Registered Interior Designer, Karen Kopicki, is principal of Kopicki Design. With over two decades of interior design experience, Karen has established a career using a holistic approach to interior design. She considers the physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being of her clients to create enduring interiors with a strength in simplicity.

Committed to designing with purpose and without ego, Karen created Kopicki Design in 2013 after 15 years as a lead interior designer with some of Austin’s premiere architecture firms.

Karen’s bright personality transcends to the whole team and creates a relaxed, engaging environment to explore design considerations and collaborations. The majority of her clients have been working with her for over a decade and through multiple homes, ranches and vacation homes.

Karen has been featured in AIA Homes Tour, Austin Design Week and Luxe Gold List, published in Luxe, Modern Interiors, Paper City, Tribeza, Austin Home, Houston Style, Fort Worth Magazine, Rare Magazine and on platforms such as Contemporist and Dwell.

fun facts:

Karen was also a professional flute player for almost 3 decades and traveled to solo with international and local symphonies across North America.

Karen is half French/ half Polish and moved all over North America before landing at The University of Texas at Austin with a full music performance scholarship and pursued that for a few years before switching majors to Interior Design.

EMILY BAHAM-HOELSCHER senior designer

Emily says she’s known she was supposed to be an interior designer from a very early age - that she was born to design and lives and breathes it. Since then, she has been fortunate enough to work with amazing and creative clients across the country, designing personal, vibrant, functional residences, inspiring offices and mouthwatering restaurants. But making a perfect home for her client’s remains Emily’s favorite work.

Emily’s approach to design is always centered around the client first - whether it be a young family, a retired couple looking for a fresh start to a new chapter in their lives, or a single bachelor or bachelorette who wants a cool space to entertain. She has a unique connection with her clients that translates to a highly personal (and fun!) experience designing. You should walk in through your front door and smile, not just because your space is beautiful and functional, but most importantly because it screams YOU.