Vela Interior Design

Vela is a principal-led interior design studio rooted in the Twin Cities — designing spaces that refuse to be ordinary. Residential interiors that feel irreplaceable. Hospitality concepts that make a brand tangible. Corporate environments designed to inspire the people inside them. We pull from the unexpected, the tactile, and the personal to compose rooms that feel authored, not assembled. Ours is a design language built on curiosity, craft, and the conviction that every space deserves a story worth telling. Vela was founded on a simple but demanding premise: that great design is never generic, never neutral, and never finished until it resonates. For over a decade, Kimberly Scanlon has built a studio where the work is driven by genuine curiosity — about materiality, about architecture, about the people who will actually inhabit these spaces. We are not a formula studio. We don't begin with a signature look and apply it wholesale. We begin with you — your rhythms, your brand's identity, your instincts, the things you're drawn to without knowing why — and we build something from there. Whether we're designing a private residence, an immersive retail environment, or a workplace that earns genuine loyalty, the result is always singular, always grounded, and always built to be fully inhabited. SERVICES Vela offers comprehensive interior design services for residential, hospitality, and commercial projects — accepting clients locally in the Twin Cities and nationwide. Whether you're undertaking a full-scale renovation, launching a new brand concept, building from the ground up, or elevating a workplace into a space that reflects the caliber of the work done inside it, we bring the same depth of creative direction and project management to every engagement.