Michaela Liebel
Designer
Equal Parts Builder, Maker and Dreamer
Michaela grew up in Butte, Montana, where historic buildings and gritty mining-town character sparked an early fascination with architecture. Before architecture school, she spent two years building Habitat for Humanity homes while earning a degree in Carpentry Construction Technology. Safe to say, she likes knowing how things actually go together. After years in residential design, Michaela joined BRS with a love for spaces that shape how people feel and interact. When she’s not designing, she’s usually making something, cooking around food allergies like it’s a competitive sport, or hanging with her husband James and daughter Kiki. Her life goal? Visit every U.S. state and someday build her own home from the ground up.
Montana Tech
Carpentry Construction Technology and Administration
Montana State University
Bachelors of Environmental Design
Montana State University
Masters of Architecture
If I won the Lottery...
...nothing would really change in my life except that I’d own land and would be building a house on it.
Favorite Food
I have allergies to a lot of things that makes it hard to enjoy food made without extreme caution. Instead of being limited by these allergies I have been relearning how to make all of the food I used to love without all of the things I can’t eat anymore.
Favorite Place
My favorite place is anywhere I’m with my family.
