The Story Behind the Studio
I design homes for people who want the house to feel settled and like their own. I started The SoulSpace Design in Frisco and work throughout North Texas, after years of studying how rooms affect the people in them, and after making a home here for my own family.
Approach
Design is not decoration. It is the quiet framework that shapes how we move, think, and feel within a space.
Every project begins with a long conversation and a walk through the house. I want to know how you want to feel here and where people actually gather. The design comes out of those answers.
Natural textures, balanced compositions, and timeless palettes are chosen not to impress, but to endure. The result is an interior that feels quietly confident and considered. Elegant without excess. Meaningful without explanation.
The Founder
"I'm Hasti Mirkia, and I founded The SoulSpace Design because I believe the spaces we live in quietly shape everything."
My path to interior design was not a straight one. I started with the land, working in architecture and landscape design for 3 years, and I got my Masters degree in architecture. Somewhere in there I got curious about something most designers answer by instinct: why some rooms stay with you years after you leave them, and others fade within the week. I went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to find out, and spent 5 years measuring it during my PhD in interior design. In one of my research experiments, Sixty-eight people looked at rooms while cameras tracked their eye movements, then tried to remember what they had seen. The rooms with soft, natural shapes were winning over other designs, and they won because people felt better in them. That work was published in the Journal of Interior Design, and it still shapes the way I design.
For 4 years I also taught different aspects of design at University of Wisconsin. As teaching leaves a mark, I cannot make a decision without explaining it, and I have come to think that is the most useful habit a designer can have.
But research is only half the story. I am a painter and a maker, and I learn through my hands. I build sculptural pieces in my studio, I sketch before I render, and I care as much about how a material feels between your fingers as how it looks in a photograph.
I am also a mother of two young children. Designing our own home in Frisco was the project that brought all of it together: the research, the craft, and the reality of a house that has to work for morning chaos and quiet evenings alike. It taught me that good residential design isn't about perfection. It's about intention, and functionality.
That is what I bring to a project: the research, the hands, and the understanding that a home is where life actually happens.
