Meet
ELLEN KAVANAUGH
ETHOS & INSPIRATION
Principal Designer
Ellen Kavanaugh design spaces that provokes passionate living, knitting together clients’ dream interiors with functionality. Lead by the creative mind of Ellen Kavanaugh, EKI delivers an attentive and personal experience to create a fresh and soulful space. Let us create a home that compliments you.
In 2015, with nearly a decade of experience behind her, Ellen gave her name to her passion and established Ellen Kavanaugh Interiors with the intention of designing singularly exquisite homes to be filled with the color of everyday living. Ellen’s warm and breezy personality fosters an easy kinship to her clients and their creative visions.
Her 18-year career is anchored by the desire to create inviting, layered, and vibrant spaces that mirror her refined yet relaxed style. Exploring the natural Atlantic seaboard, the bursts of southern charm, the Caribbean’s warmth, and European classicism, she designs an elegantly soulful home.
Within the last 5 years, Ellen’s namesake firm leads in interior design on the East Coast with Ellen as one of the most in demand designers in the area. She has both helped evolve and preserve the trademark of the highly desirable Palm Beach home.
About
OUR PRACTICE
Layered Luxury in Palm Beach
Refined and beside the ordinary, Ellen Kavanaugh Interiors creates soulful spaces that welcome an effortless blend of styles and periods. EKI is a full-service interior design firm with its roots planted in Palm Beach that prioritizes bringing life to your vision. Whether it be a newly constructed custom home, a casual beach bungalow, or a historic renovation, you’ll need an expert to carry your vision through.
EKI designs dream homes to compliment everyday living. Ellen Kavanaugh Interiors has earned admiration in Veranda, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Southern Living, Coastal Living and publications alike. In 2020, EKI received the Addison Mizner Award for Interior Design given by the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art.
Designing with Intention
Our philosophy is simple — we honor the architecture, design for the way our clients live, and layer with thoughtful intention. Through this approach, we strike a thoughtful balance between form and function. Our team believes that when prioritizing livability, we can achieve harmony in design by sharing stories and creating spaces with soul.
We’re known for evoking timelessness by mixing the new with the old, and embracing contrast and scale to let tension bring interest. By layering with intention through a combination of materials, textures and details, our team designs with our client’s lifestyle at the forefront of each and every project.
Our
PHILOSOPHY
