The Designer

Megan Inglin

A decade in hospitality taught her how a great room makes a person feel. Now she designs them.

Portrait of Megan Inglin
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Megan Inglin spent more than ten years inside the hospitality industry — the kind of years that teach a person to read a room before they walk into it. From the cadence of a great dinner service to the quiet choreography of a perfectly turned-down suite, she learned that hospitality is, at its heart, a design discipline. Every detail is in service of how a person feels.

Those years also built something quieter and more valuable: relationships. Friendships with chefs, owners, makers, and the guests who returned again and again. Over time, those same people started asking Megan a different question. Would you help me with my home?

Elevated Spaces KC was born from that question. It is a studio built on the belief that taking exquisite care of people is the most important — and most underused — tool in interior design. Megan brings the same attention she once devoted to a guest's arrival to the way a couch meets a rug, the way morning light falls across a kitchen island, the way a guest bath surprises a visitor with one perfect, unexpected detail.

The studio is intentionally small. Megan personally guides every project from first conversation to final styling. The result is work that feels less like a renovation and more like a long, generous welcome — home.

10+

Years in hospitality

KC

Hometown studio

MMXXIV

Studio established

Approach

Four quiet principles.

  1. Hospitality first

    01

    Every decision begins with the question: how should this make a person feel? Then we work backwards into materials, light, and form.

  2. Collected, not decorated

    02

    Rooms should look gathered over time. We weave vintage finds, custom pieces, and considered artistry into something that reads as truly yours.

  3. Quiet detail

    03

    The best details are the ones you only notice on the third visit. We obsess over the hinge, the seam, the way a shadow falls.

  4. Built to last

    04

    We design for the long arc of a home. Materials that age beautifully, layouts that flex with life, taste that doesn't expire.

Reading nook designed by Megan

Invitation

Let's begin with a conversation.

Every Elevated project begins the same way — over coffee, with no expectations. We'd love to hear about your home, your life in it, and what could be.

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