Visions of the West Reawaken an Interior Designer’s Mountain Dream
With the help of her carefully assembled team, Sara Marcille of Mountain Home Collective realizes her dream of building an interior design business in Big Sky Country
The team at Bozeman-based Mountain Home Collective works with clients to create their ideal mountain homes. | Photo by Heidi Long
Long before she traded in her successful design career in Chicago for a design business in Montana, Sara Marcille was an avid lover of the West. Having lived in the Big Sky area, the principal designer knew she wanted to return to the mountains and start a firm that designed cozy lifestyle homes inspired by the surrounding terrain.
Marcille had a “dream of working with clients who lived, wanted to live, or were spending as much time as possible out West. She wanted to collaborate with contractors who have been in the state and knew the land, and work with creative, outdoorsy people. “I had a vision of these trades, clients and coworkers coming together to create a beautiful collective, Mountain Home Collective,” she explains.
Bozeman-based interior designer Sara Marcille enjoys designing “dream mountain homes” for her clients. | Photo by Lord & Co
Her vision was realized in the summer of 2020, when Mountain Home Collective (MHC) opened its doors in Bozeman. The firm recently outgrew its space and opened a second office in town, with charming wood ceilings, mood lighting and eye-catching wallpaper. “We made some fun design decisions with lighting and wallpaper,” says Marcille. “We wanted to show our clients that we embrace color, pattern and unique scale. Overall, the space feels unique, vintage and inviting.”
One of the firm’s “dream projects” is a residential project in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. An adventure-loving couple hired the MHC team to draw up concepts for a sanctuary with modern elements and a distinctive style appropriate to the region. The MHC team used “Montana homestead” as their inspiration. “We also take advantage of the views provided by the with incredible architecture and add in personality with natural colors and patterns,” Marcille says.
Whimsical wallpaper serves as the backdrop in this rustic bedroom. | Photo by Justine Jane Photography
Marcille considers her firm a well-kept secret and looks forward to what the future brings. The client-centric team at MHC continues to embrace new design ideas and gather fresh inspiration from the outdoors. “It’s such an honor when clients decide to partner with us,” says Marcille. “They feel as though we were the design partner they hadn’t heard of but were meant to find. We take care of our people and look out for their best interests throughout the entire process.”
“We offer a luxury design furniture package that gets seamlessly delivered for a gorgeous reveal and move-in experience to welcome the client into their new mountain home,” says Marcille. | Photo by Peach Meets Pine
The new office provides space for creative client consultations with a selection of samples and options. Marcille embraces a soft earthy color palette in many of her design projects. “We have developed many of our color palettes for our interiors around the fall colors of a property,” says Marcille. | Photo by Peach Meets Pine
INTERIOR DESIGN – Mountain Home Collective
As featured in ML’s March/April 2024 Issue
