our story

We are Wanderlust Home Interiors.  We are globe-trotting professional interior designers, and we create gorgeous, functional homes because we believe that everyone deserves a beautiful life and to live well...now.

Wanderlust means 'a strong desire to travel'. We travel the world in search of inspiration for our clients’ homes.  From sourcing incredible stone in Carrara, Italy to composing color palettes derived from textile mills in Santiago, Chile. We believe that your home should not be a cookie-cutter design that looks like your Pinterest boards, rather it should reflect your life and reveal the stories that make you who you are.  You are the author of your story and we become the illustrator, telling your story with beautiful materials, furniture, and accessories.

Our services range from simply styling a room all the way to providing the design concept, materials, and construction drawings for ground-up new construction. We work alongside with talented architects, engineers and contractors to make the impossible possible. We transform homes thus transforming lives.

XO The Wanderlust Team

Katie rennÉ

founder/ lead designer

Globe-trotting, professional interior designer with 20+ years of experience in the design industry. Katie’s design philosophy is simple- your home should tell the story of who you are and be a collection of what you love.

Since she was seven years old, she’s been fascinated with the psychology of transforming interior spaces. Wanting to make her life’s passion her life’s work, she focused on learning all the ins and outs of the non-so-glam part of design—construction techniques, building codes, fire safety, accessibility, efficiency, functionality, and acoustics.

Armed with a business degree and an interior design degree she traveled the world designing hip hotels and restaurants. Studying famous interiors from Paris to Tokyo, she decided that San Diego needed a design firm that pushed the boundaries of traditional approaches with beautiful, global design concepts. Thus, Wanderlust Home Interiors Inc. was born.

Brynn RennÉ

Interior designer

Quality time with family and friends, traveling the world, and creating beautiful environments - especially ones where people gather and create memories…these are a few of Brynn’s favorite things. While Brynn’s love for creating beauty within a space stems from a very young age, thanks to her very stylish Mom, her passion has only grown deeper thanks to her travels! She loves to collect goods from each trip to incorporate into her home. Her favorite international purchase? Hands down, it’s her handpicked Moroccan carpets purchased in Marrakech - the carpet negotiating experience was thrilling and even came with a little Berber Whiskey (Moroccan Mint Tea).

After 15 years in the Visual Merchandising industry and 5 years of running her own Wedding Design company, Interior Design is a natural transition. Making a house a (beautiful and functional) home is where her passion is. Brynn believes that the key elements to living in a home that you love are 1) remember that your house becomes a home over time - go slowly to collect and curate detail décor and artwork that truly resonates with you and helps to tell your story and 2) keep it functional - this is especially true with kids!

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