Our Favorite Women Owned Interior Design Businesses
October is National Women's Small Business Month celebrating the creative entrepreneurs who took the plunge to start a small business despite gender barriers. This month CI is featuring our favorite women owned businesses in the interior design industry!
New York based designer Hana Getachew started Bolé Road Textiles out of a desire to merge her love of Ethiopian handwoven fabrics with her career in interior design. Bolé Road Textiles is driven by a passion for good design and a belief that textiles have the ability to transform interiors and inspire the people within them. They are dedicated to helping our customers create spaces they love, while supporting artisans in Ethiopia.
Clara is a direct-to-consumer interior paint company that has shaken up the traditional painting experience. Their business model takes the stress out of painting by offering high-quality designer-curated colors as well as peel and stick swatches to make the process easier. Founded by Nicole Gibbons, a color-obsessed interior designer. She saw that the traditional paint shopping experience was outdated and full of hassle, so she decided to change that and launched Clare in Summer 2018. Nicole is passionate about helping everyone love where they live and with Clare, she's continuing to do just that—one perfect paint color at a time.
Jungalow started as a blog by designer Justina Blakeney, but it's exploded into a full-scale lifestyle brand and shop. With the tagline "Decorate wild," the brand focuses on jungle-inspired decor, from art prints to wallpaper, unique designs to bedding and textiles.
Rooted in American tattooing, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Deco, and the wild spaces of the Pacific Northwest, and inspired by the fusion of beauty and function, Lonesome Pictopia creates magical worlds with our original wallpapers and murals. They are an all-female team of friends and bosses with a wide-ranging set of skills and experience, including tattooing, architecture, interior design, historic preservation, gilding, film styling, and business management.
Creative design professionals with 30 years of combined tile experience, Kristin Ortiz & Lindsay Sheets have joined forces to bring exceptional, unique, high-quality designed American-made tile to market. Haustile produces the strongest, hard-wearing material available in the tile industry. Incredibly durable porcelain accompanied by intriguing glazed patterns.
