“Our mission is to design interiors that tell stories of comfort and belonging. We believe that every detail should function well, even if that function is to bring joy.”
Breathe Design Studio, founded in 2017, is an award-winning full-service residential and boutique commercial design firm headquartered in Austin, Texas, specializing in luxury residential interiors throughout Texas and California.
Our interiors tell stories of comfort and belonging. We believe that every detail should function well, even if that function is to bring joy.
As designers our most important focus is your well-being. Our design aesthetic is rooted in warm modernism and draws from the Danish approach of creating clean, calm and cozy spaces.
Underneath all of this is our attraction to simplicity. Every design project is driven by the enduring values of empathy, collaboration, and trust. Our mission is to design thoughtful spaces that elevate your everyday.
Recent Press
Our work has been featured on the covers of Atomic Ranch Magazine, Austin Home and Tribeza Magazine. We were selected by Atomic Ranch Magazine to design their Project House, covered over six issues, in collaboration with Midcentury Custom Homes. Readers of Austin Home Magazine voted our studio best interior designers in 2021. We also are contributors to Architectural Digest, Lonny, Rue, and Dwell.
Our TEAM
Christine Ho
Principal Designer & Creative Director
Christine founded Breathe Design Studio on a simple belief: your home should feel like a work of art and a place of profound belonging. Christine holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and strives to bring an unusually thoughtful, art-driven sensibility to modern and contemporary design. Every project she takes on is bespoke, deeply personal, and entirely one of a kind.
Ava Sanchez
Senior Interior Designer
Senior Designer Ava Sanchez is a University of Texas graduate with over 25 years of experience in luxury modern and contemporary interiors across Austin and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her published projects with Breathe Design Studio reflect a deeply refined sensibility. Her work is shaped by years of travel, an expert eye for materiality, and a passion for spaces that are as striking as they are livable.
Naomi Hummel
Interior Designer
Bachelors of Science in Interior Design
Texas State University
Nicole Walsh
Office Coordinator & Procurement Specialist
Nicole Walsh is the organizational backbone of Breathe Design. Nicole brings reliability, precision, and a deep commitment to a flawless client experience to every project. Her commitment to excellence ensures that nothing falls through the cracks from concept through completion.
Our Clients
Our firm partners with residential realtors, architects, builders, and homeowners who are interested in warm modern and contemporary design. Our passion is guiding clients through the process of creating a cohesive vision and making subsequent decisions with confidence. We manage the process through our long-standing relationships with teams of renowned architects, custom home builders, general contractors, fabricators, furniture makers, installers, and other industry leaders in the area.
Our clients include CEOs, attorneys, financial experts, tech executives, medical professionals, real estate developers, custom home builders, editors, and busy families whose schedules benefit from our virtual platforms and streamlined design processes to simplify the interior design experience either in-person or remotely.
We have completed projects on architecturally significant homes that have received AIA Design Awards (Michael Hsu Architects and Alterstudio Architects) and been featured on home tours in areas such as Rollingwood, Westlake, San Francisco, and the Bay Area.