Kathryn Lemaster

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MEET KATHRYN J. LEMASTER

Hi there! I am an interior designer and entrepreneur, and among the many things I love (coffee, yoga, red wine, the great outdoors, reading, writing, watering my plant babies, playing with my actual baby (okay he’s nearly 4) listening to and playing music – to name a few) I most especially love helping people live happily in their homes! I believe for the happiest space, where we live and work should be extension of who we are, reflecting our personalities and telling our stories. So part of my job is helping people express themselves and tell their stories through their homes while we optimize the space to function at it’s full potential! If you can’t tell by now, I absolutely love my job. Getting to know my clients on such a personal level as to accomplish this level of authenticity in their spaces means I always end up making new friends – usually that is my clients, but it is often their dogs, too.

I studied interior design at UCA here in Central AR, followed by the privilege of working at a world-renown luxury residential design firm, Tobi Fairely Interior Design. After a couple of years at the firm it was time for a change. I struck out on my own. In the middle of nowhere. Not really. But I wasn’t sure I “had what it takes” to start my own business. I believed alot of what I now identify as small-minded thinking and limiting lies that often hold us back from what we were meant to do. Nay, I was a lady of little faith.

How I ended up here is a long story for another time, but by God’s grace, here I am. 10+ years later, celebrating my company’s 8+ year anniversary with faith grown and more joy from this journey than I ever could have dreamed! It turns out I was most definitely meant to start my own business. In doing so, I’ve gotten to live out part of my purpose by using my creative gifts and professional skills to serve countless families, individuals and businesses, helping solve their interior dilemmas to create personalized spaces that serve their intended purpose. It is seriously so rewarding and makes my heart so happy! I love what my Insta-friend artist Allison recently wrote, “Our Great Creator formed us all to be artists – each one of us being given unique gifts to encourage and touch others in this life.” Yes, this is something I was meant to do.

So there’s a bit about me. I’d love to learn more about you! Please don’t leave without saying hello whether through the Connect page or connecting via social media. Thanks for dropping in!

xo – kathryn j.

THINGS THAT MAKE ME SMILE

  1 Hot coffee. All day every day.
  2 A good pun. Puns are my 2nd strongest skill.
  3 Critters of all kinds. Especially Rufus & Nellie.
  4 Liam love. My most incredible smol human.
  5 The sunshine. It reminds me of Jesus’ face.
  6 Wind. I imagine angel wings beating is the cause of wind! (See Heb. 1:7 ;))

everyone needs partners in crime

MEETEMILY PARKS

Junior Designer Genius

Emily attended the University of Arkansas where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Social Work. She and her husband Devon (a film and television director) met at high school in Van Buren, Arkansas, attended the same college, graduated in May of 2013, got married 2 weeks later became parents to the Greatest Dane around (Scout) and moved to Los Angeles within the year. (Whew!)
With a lot of life changes happening so quickly, one “hobby” remained humbly and subtly consistent – design. Over the last decade, she found herself designing events from weddings, parties, showers, a bat mitzvah here and there, her too-small apartments, her friends’ too-small apartments, a regional Emmy Award-winning short film, short films that didn’t win anything at all – and several nationally-aired commercials. Despite numerous opportunities in the creative industry, Emily remained in her actual degree field for 5 years; working as a Behavior Interventionist for children of all abilities in a variety of settings. Yet when a friend enthusiastically said to her one day, “You should consider a career in design!”, she remembers looking at them as if they had just told a hilarious joke. Design full-time, what?! How? Where? With who?
Since finally committing to full-time design in 2017, Emily has completed 2 feature films and a 10-part television series for a major network. The answers to the whats, hows, and wheres are all stories for another time, but as for “with who?”- enter, with the sunniest soundtrack your brain can muster, Kathryn LeMaster. Emily and Kathryn met on set through a production design client, where their worlds of interior and production design met and melded in perfect design harmony. She continued to hone her creative gifts in production design and styling while expanding her design skills in to the interior design realm by training with Kathryn for a year. She recently became the company’s first Junior Designer and is continually saving the day by providing much needed design assistance in all capacities from design concepts, project development, presentation creation – essentially supporting Kathryn as her left-hand-woman (because Kathryn’s left handed) on all design fronts while also taking excellent care of our ever-growing family of clients and vendors. Emily says of her future in design, “The rest is a history still being written, but I am so blessed and excited to be a part of this special company lead by the best!”

MEETFORREST ADDISON

Project Manager + Resident Techspert

Hi there! Forrest here.

I am your Onboarding Specialist, Project Manager, and friendly resident Techspert for Kathryn J. LeMaster Art & Design. What had originally started out as helping her troubleshoot website issues, quickly became a smol bit more. A sort of hybrid role of sorts. Anywhere from some administrative assistance, any and all tech woes, to deliveries + installation coordination, to mock-up renderings. You could say I’m a bit of a jack-of-all-trades.

Beyond my worksphere at KJL, here’s a bit more about me! I am 33 years young, and have a full-time career in IT with 14+ years experience. I’m also a nature, landscape, food, and portrait photographer. I love to paint with watercolor and wine. Some of my other favorite funtivities include cooking, product/food styling, hiking, camping, waterfall chasing, star gazing, movies, health/fitness, Christmas – pretty much just about anything else that spells FUN. Skydiving is on my bucket list of things I want to accomplish in my life this year. I’m also a CrossFit L1 Certified Trainer aaaannnddd a proud pawrent of the wild and spunky Goldendoodle dog, Maui. 

I am super happy and grateful to be here working with Kathryn and Emily, and I look forward to working with YOU! 🙂 Have such a wonderful year!

MEETRUFUS & NELLIE

Super Receiving Supervisor and Dynamic Daily Operations Manager

Nine years ago, they were just a couple a pups in a pen. Like a pair of mismatched book ends, Rufus was the biggest of the litter while Nellie was the runt. Despite their distance in stature and difference in personality – these two couldn’t be closer.
Rufus is the life of the party around the house and office, living by the philosophy that strangers are just friends he hasn’t met yet. Meanwhile Nellie prefers to take her time getting to know you, but once you’re “in” – you’re in for life. At work, you can usually find Rufus posted up at the window watching for the FedEx and UPS trucks to drop of incoming packages, mailman Kevin to drop off the mail, and keep an eye on his porch bird frienemies, ready to sound the alarm (Ruf! His name really is so fitting) should a bird-fight break out or a package arrive.
Nellie is always the first to arrive at the office (such a long commute down 18 stairs from her bed at the end of Kathryn’s bed to her desk under Kathryn’s desk) where she stares questioningly across the room at Kathryn (usually still stirring her coffee in the Kitchen) as though to inquire, “are we going to work today?” until Kathryn finally takes her seat at the desk after sloshing Nellie’s share of coffee across the floor on her way there. Once everyone is in their place, she likes observing from Kathryn’s feet to ensure daily tasks are performed up to her high standard of excellence and the office playlist is sufficiently jammy.

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  • Northern Little Rock Interior Designer
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The coziest air bnb in Hot Springs, a couple of ou The coziest air bnb in Hot Springs, a couple of our favorite couples, icecream cake for all, hiking date for us complete with cupcakes + rosé in a cave… only for  @forrest_addison_roberts ‘s birthday!! 🥳😘 

I couldn’t let the year end without narrowing down a few favorite captures from such a special weekend earlier in December (which overlaps with our elopement anniversary now, but anniversary photos wouldn’t fit here too ha!) celebrating the love of my life. 

Thankful for such sweet friends to laugh and celebrate with. Thankful for keeping our birthday tradition of cake + wine in a cave, come rain or shine. Thankful to get to celebrate my favorite adventure partner for another year! Thanks for picking me to host your parties for the rest of your life. It’s a grande honor, and you’re the easiest to want to celebrate. I love you!

PS: if you’re traveling to Hot Springs, you absolutely need to check out @thewoodlawntudorandcottage and @thepaddockhotsprings - love these properties by @kaligoldenharris !! We didn’t want to leave and can’t wait to go back! 🏡
October highlights in 10 snaps (and a motion to in October highlights in 10 snaps (and a motion to increase the 10 slider limit as all the joy this month held couldn’t be narrowed to such a small smattering). 

This is merely a fraction of sweet memories from one of our two most festive months of the year: October brought:

- a road trip to Comfort, TX for my cousin’s wedding fest 
- Liam’s 5th birthday 
- my 34th birthday 
- Halloween parties, dates, and costumes book readings (not even enough room for all of those here!)

I can let perfectionism lead to procrastination in sharing, sorting, favoriting, editing - and then months escape me without letting a few favorites make it here to the grid, which is the closest thing to a scrapbook I have these days. So doing my best to let these few float up here like balloons to the sky before another month escapes me. 

So incredibly thankful for all of the sweet memories and grande adventures with my two fellas. 🥹 This first year together as a blended family is one I’ll always want to remember, for the treasures it’s held and the growth we’ve all experienced. 

Thanksgiving is the perfect day to remember to remember and hold it all a little closer. 🙏🏼💛

Much love and many more sweet memories moments to be thankful for to you and yours! 💝
Happy Son’s day to my sweet Liam love. Brightest Happy Son’s day to my sweet Liam love. Brightest little light of my life, teller of the most original jokes, giver of the silliest lick-kisses, imaginer of new games, snuggliest bug, the bravest boy with the strongest heart and fastest feet - and so many endless more magical things to me. Getting to be his mama is the greatest honor and a most unbelievable gift. 🥹🙏🏼🤍 I love you Liam! And I will always be so incredibly proud of you. Keep being you! The world needs all of your wonder, enthusiasm, kindness and joy. ✨ And all those “great ideas” you’ve always got brewing. ☺️😘 

📷 @brittanyrigganphoto
Cooking with Liam and “Michael Bubely”…🕷❤️🎶😂🙏🏼 While he’s loved the Spider-Man theme song for awhile, we recently discovered this version and it has been on repeat and we are happy about it. 😅 
 
#boymomadventures #thatsdarling #kitchenconcert #singingvideo #fouryearolds #cookingwithkids #thefoodnetwork #videooftheday #momlifebestlife #michaelbuble #spiderman #spidermanthemesong #kidsareawesome #childprodigy #michaelbublé #michaelbubleduet
Glorious, precious memories from “part 2” of o Glorious, precious memories from “part 2” of our wedding celebration - our reception this summer, 6 months following our elopement! Thank you to our sweet friend + amazing photographer @brittanyrigganphoto and to our friends at @reservehotsprings !! 🥹🙏🏼🤍

@forrest_addison_ - I am filled with wonder yet again as I look through these, trying and failing at narrowing down favorite moments, still in awe of this love of ours, beyond all we could’ve asked or imagined. 🥲🙏🏼

There’s a consistent calm + quiet in walking alongside you in this life, with the sound of puns + giggles, plans being made, hearts being shared, being the blessed echo for miles around. 

I’m thankful for all the space for us to learn and grow as individuals and together. Thank you for your willingness to learn with me. I love partnering with you in cultivating the kind of relationship and life we believe in! 

I’ve yet to see anger, bitterness, jealousy or other turmoil take up root in the sacred space we share, and somehow I know we never will. Your unending generosity of spirit, steady patience, and a truly unassuming heart that’s always believed the best of mine, softens mine more.

Watching and learning from you is an honor and joy. I’m still trying to wrap my head around your genuinely pure kindness. You’ve prayed for those who’ve persecuted us. You’ve “rejoiced with those who rejoice” even when they’ve wronged you. You keep no record of wrongs like I’ve never seen. You simply carry on loving well.

Thank you for being my safest place. For being to me among many things, one long exhale after years of oscillating between holding my breath and hyperventilating. 

Even as I have those moments still, you listen to my heavy heart and witness my weary tears without judgment I’ve known before, because like Jesus’s “banner over me is love” always - you, too, judge me forever and always as “beloved”. I’m learning to remember and rest in that to counter the self consciousness that comes with learning to be truly seen. 

Thank you for by your very presence and heart posture, inviting me to be myself, even when I am a taco level hot-mess.

I love you to the moon and back, to infinity and beyond! ♾
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It is a delight to work with Kathryn LeMaster. She is a good listener who has been able to help us transition into a smaller home while still keeping the essence of our family intact.

- CINDI C.

My husband and I decided to update our house focusing on the kitchen and bathrooms. We were so impressed from the beginning with Kathryn! She was easy to work with and took our vision and made it all come together! She was extremely professional and we highly recommend her. Thanks Kathryn!! We couldn't be happier!!!

- LAURA D.

I have been doing business with Kathryn for several years, where she had played an integral role to enhance the quality and appeal of the visual impact of our furniture in TV commercial s. She independently picks products that perfectly match each commercial. She is also an absolute pleasure to work with. She is flexible when needed, and always has a positive disposition.

- LAWRENCE ZIGERELLI, PRESIDENT/CEO, FFO HOME

We asked Kathryn to create sets for a food shoot with multiple items. She created sets with for each dish and had them passed them off with the client who was out of town. She was extremely organized and methodical about how she purchased and approved each set. Not only was her work exceptional, her presence made the client feel at ease.

- DERO SANFORD, OWNER, THINKDERO

We highly recommend Kathryn. She listened to us as her clients and executed ideas based upon our design style. We had bought a new house and asked her to help us furnish, design, and style It. We appreciated her detailed drawings and ability to "show" us the vision and plan. She is quick to respond and allows for flexibility based upon timeline needs. Once deciding together on budget, she works toward that goal. She is a lot of fun to work with!

- CHRISTY H.

Kathryn assisted me in styling and accessorizing our new home. She nailed my design ideas and style based on the questionnaire and my comments. I was amazed at how she was able to match my style exactly! It would have taken me years to accomplish what she accomplished in one day. I would highly recommend her and look forward to working with her again in the future.

- BEVERLY R.

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