About us

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Heidi Sowatsky, Owner & Interior Decorator

The SWAT Design Team – Decorating Den Interiors works with its clients to add the “Wow!” to their residences and to gain the greatest return on their design investment. Heidi Sowatsky and her team are known as a gifted interior design consultants who help clients identify and overcome their most pressing challenges. Heidi Sowatsky has served a wide variety of clients during an illustrious twenty-year design career in which her work has been published internationally, and she has appeared on TV.

Heidi’s clients today benefit from the budgeting acumen she gained from her 25 years of experience in the financial industry. And they benefit, too, from the international interior design insights and perspective she has acquired while living and traveling around the world. She has visited more than 70 countries on all seven continents. Heidi and her associates have won numerous design and sales awards from Decorating Den Interiors. Their affiliation with the world’s largest and longest-established decorating franchise organization enables the SWAT Design Team – Decorating Den Interiors to offer the St. Louis area’s largest selection of luxury furnishings and in-home decorating services. The SWAT Design Team, one of the region’s premier design firms, offers services ranging from project management and space planning to color consultations and the selection of window treatments and furniture. The firm has been among Decorating Den’s top selling franchisees since Heidi launched the business in 2004.

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Jennifer Barnes, Interior Designer

Jennifer joined the SWAT Design Team in 2013, first as a marketing assistant, and now as an interior designer. Jenny’s ability to set a client at ease with her warm, outgoing personality, sets the stage for her goal as a designer. She believes that interior design is a collaborative process between her and her client. It’s a relationship that is built on trust between the client and designer. For her it’s all about great design that reflects her clients style and personality.

Jenny is a Saint Louis native. She grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri and is raising her three children there with her husband Scott.

Call to schedule an appointment for your personal design consultant to come to you. Together you will determine the scope of your design project and the amount you want to invest. On the second appointment, we will present our initial design recommendations to you. A phone call is the first step towards taking your room from “inspiration to reality”.

The SWAT Design Team – Decorating Den Interiors proudly serves St. Louis, St. Charles, Chesterfield, Town and Country, Des Peres, Creve, Wildwood, Ballwin, Lake St. Louis, O’Fallon, Wentzville, Ladue, Frontenac, Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Clayton, Richmond, Brentwood, University City, and surrounding areas.