Award winning designer, Kathleen “Tath” Hossfeld, literally grew up designing homes at her father’s drafting board in his architectural-engineering firm in Hollywood, California. Tath presented her first floor plan of a home to her father at the age of ten. Her undergraduate studies, as a design major, were at Northern Arizona University. Tath completed her studies at the Interior Designer’s Guild, in Newport Beach California and Bellevue, Washington. Upon graduation she was hired as an in-house designer for Mortimer-Kahn Associates (Seattle, Washington and Berkeley, California).