Award winning designer Catrina Kendrick wears both a creative bonnet and a business chapeau at Catrina's Ranch Interiors.

Go shopping at Catrina’s Ranch Interiors and you’ll likely find the owner, Catrina Kendrick, juggling phone calls, meeting with clients, answering employee questions, conferring with craftsmen and doing a thousand-and-one other things necessary to keep her custom furniture and interior design store thriving.

The decorating expert, who is noted for her one-of-a-kind furniture pieces, leads a demanding professional life. But she’s not complaining. Kendrick loves the challenges and even the multitasking involved. "Everything I used to do for other people I’m now doing for myself and this business,” she says. “This is exactly the life I imagined for myself.”

Catrina spent years in the furniture business managing and buying for other furniture stores. She takes understandable pride in her stores and her specialty handcrafted furniture made of Canadian alder, as well as mesquite, pine, cedar and antique woods. She’s proud of her extensive inventories – unique things such as antler and iron chandeliers, custom furniture and cabinets and doors at the ranch location, and European-flavored and contemporary pieces.