Kristy Kropat

San Diego, California.

Kristy Kropat is an interior designer, lighting designer, engineer, adjunct professor and entrepreneur. She founded her boutique design studio 18 years ago in San Diego, delivering award-winning residential and commercial projects throughout California and Germany.

Her work has been featured in over 28 national and international publications including Better Homes and Gardens, the Wall Street Journal, Atomic Ranch, Cooking Light and she also served as the off-camera designer for A&E’s reality design show “Fix This Kitchen”.

Having lived and worked in San Francisco and Berlin, Kristy brings an international perspective to her practice. After spending 11 years away, she has returned to her native San Diego, where she serves as President-Elect of the San Diego Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers and a judge for San Diego Magazine’s Home + Design Awards 2026.

With a background that blends creative and technical expertise, she combines analytical problem-solving and design thinking to create beautiful, functional, sustainable and inclusive spaces. Kristy believes that design shapes how we live, and that lighting, when composed with intention, enhances function while also transforming a space’s atmosphere, and experience.

Kristy’s passion is to design spaces that reflect the Client’s vision and functional needs, resulting in spaces that are both personal, purposeful and liveable.

Design shapes how we live. Lighting elevates design.

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