Michelle Woolley Sauter

“As a professional artist and designer, I step into a client’s world to see a space – not just for its design but also its lifestyle potential. Stepping back and taking a broad view allows me to study the bones of a home and offer solutions that provide exciting options for clients.”

Michelle’s artistic heritage comes from the long lineage of artists in her family. Her father was an accomplished water-colorist, and her grandmother was a successful interior designer. Her French Great-Grandfather was also an extremely talented painter.

With those influences propelling her, Michelle earned a BFA from Florida Atlantic University and honed her natural color-expertise. She then began working in Art Galleries from Palm Beach to Miami, where she managed and curated spectacular collections throughout South Florida. Ultimately, her gallery clients and friends recognized Michelle’s eye for interior design and her ability to marry the perfect color palette into stunning spaces filled with artwork, texture, and style. During this time, Michelle began to translate her artistry onto canvases of commissioned art for collectors and create spaces for high-end design clients. She also began designing Yacht interiors, bespoke furniture pieces, wallpaper lines, and created a line of framed original artwork for Tommy Bahama International, a spectacular installation of Swarovski, and hand-painted environs for Walt Disney World International.

Of all the accolades, Michelle’s greatest joy comes from working in-depth and one on one with her clients to create the space of their dreams, where they come away feeling delighted…at ease and understood. She is a firm believer that your home is your sanctuary and a reflection of you. Michelle takes the most exceptional pride in seeing her clients settle into THEIR perfect space.

When she is not designing or creating, Michelle and her fabulous Engineer husband Brian travel the world with their Mini Golden-doodle, affectionately known as ‘Charlie’! (who is the ‘Manager’ of One Coast Design). They live in and are restoring, The Coburn Hutchinson House, a beautiful art-filled historic home just outside of Charleston in Summerville, SC…the name says it all!