hey there, I’m Kimberly

I want to hear your story & help you solve your problems.

If you’ve wandered onto this page, you must be curious about me and whether I can help you with your new home design or renovation project. The truth is, I want to know if I can help you, too. My name is Kimberly Kerl and it’s great to meet you.

I’m fascinated with the built environment and while I allowed it to guide my career path, that’s not really why I do what I do.  

At the core, I’m a helper, problem solver, and admirer of people’s stories. And nothing tells a better story than the spaces we transform into our homes. So, naturally, I wanted to be a part of using the built environment as the perfect setting for you to write your life story.

I pursued my passion at Clemson University College of Architecture, where I concentrated my studies on Historic Preservation and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Design. After working in an architecture firm for seven years, I decided to return to school and earn my Bachelor of Architecture from UNC Charlotte.

Kimberly Kerl of Kerl Design in Greenville, SC
Kimberly Kerl

LIFE designed a little differently

With all of the formal education and logged hours of experience necessary to sit for the Architectural Registration Exam, I did something unexpected.  

I slowed down my career path to focus on my family. In doing so, I focused my attention and worked exclusively on the projects that mattered most to me: private residences. I have designed new homes, additions, and renovations for more than three decades now.

Yes, Renovation Can Be Fun

While I still consider my family my most important project, my children are grown and now chase their passions, which leaves me ample time to help you fulfill yours. 

I will help you upsize, downsize, or right-size. I will ask you to explore your motivations and be honest about your budget. I will lead you through one of the most historically stressful tasks and make it fun. I want you to enjoy the journey as much as you enjoy the end result.

“I ask more questions, so you have fewer. I listen to what you want, but design what you need. I translate the words and images you provide for me into a home that was written just for you.”

I’m Not an HGTV Star

I slowed down my career path to focus on my family. In doing so, I focused my attention and worked exclusively on the projects that mattered most to me: private residences. I have designed new homes, additions, and renovations for more than three decades now. And I am not an HGTV star with a production crew you don’t pay for and a carpenter who stepped off the pages of GQ.

I am a problem solver, creative genius, working woman who has balanced a career and family while maintaining her own house, cooking her own meals, and writing her own story.  

I ask more questions, so you have fewer. I listen to what you want, but design what you need. I translate the words and images you provide for me into a home that was written just for you.