About

   To Him be all the glory! There is no better way to glorify and praise God than to serve Him by serving others with the gifts that He has given us. He has blessed me beyond deserving with much joy and boundless creativity, along with a mind for analyzing and quickly problem solving. With my specific interest in drawing and creating amazing spaces, along with an endless fascination with people and their relationships, architecture was simply a natural fit. 

   At first success came easily. First in commercial interior architecture, for almost 8 years in downtown Minneapolis, MN and then in my own practice for over 15 years creating residential architectural and interior design. This too was was prosperous and actually began building notoriety . . . until the housing market crashed. By 2010 my life would be flipped upside down and twisted in ways that I could have never imagined.

   In that dark time I lost everything - my home, my practice, many of my friends and colleagues, and worst of all I had to give up my children. After that, I literally moved around the world attempting to avoid the "systemic reality" formed by our worldly culture. I wanted nothing to do with money as all it caused was pain and heartache. It seemed as if all that I had built previously was illusory and even my children did not, could not, stay with me for the lack of money for even a home. Grateful for a place to stay and food to eat, I would, without pay, continue to help people with their homes and with their healing of health, home, and family.

   Then in 2019 Jesus came and swept me up into His arms and claimed me as His own (again). He literally was standing in my room telling me to get to Hudson, WI and restart my life. I went immediately upon His command. Found Faith Community Church, which is now my family in so many incredible ways. I found a job and an apartment. And began life again, only with His strength, not my own.

    So many people had been praying for me and suddenly were reaching out helping me to find a place to live, buying shoes for me, teaching me finances . . . I struggled to find work as I slowly built a residential architectural design business again while holding various jobs to pay rent & bills. It has been over 6 years of struggle (that feels like 30)! And each year the Lord teaches me hard lessons that I had not known or understood before. And He blesses me more and more every day with amazing yet humbling "success" (in quotes because the meaning of that word has blown up way beyond this world and taken on a whole new meaning!)

   I have been reunited with many of my loved ones and yet await the day when my prodigal (now atheist) children are sought out by Christ and brought home to the Father and, in His timing and as He wills, home to me, too.

   In the meantime, I have so much joy and amazement every day with all of the incredible people who are jazzed about crafting and building homes with architecture and design 'Beyond Ordinary'. Seeing how having a beautiful flowing space transforms their relationships, brings them closer to one another, and ultimately closer to God, is much, much more that I could have ever dreamed!

   I also recently took on a position to help another business owner grow her business - Gressa Shroeder, owner of Gotcha Covered Window Treatments of Woodbury! What a joy to work alongside a fellow Christian, apply my skills, and helping homeowners one window at a time!

   When I walked into my first Ambassadors In Business meeting, and the first thing we did was bow our heads and pray, I felt like I was home! It is humbling and inspiring to be surrounded by other business owners who also choose to live their lives and do their work to glorify the Lord, serve others, and build His Kingdom. Now I simply and humbly ask, "How may I serve you?"

Creating architectural and interior designs for homes "Beyond Ordinary" transforming your relationships through your space.