About Melodie

Primitive Modern Design was founded in 2007 and is a Texas Hill Country-based interior design firm with projects sprinkled throughout the Austin and San Antonio areas.

Personable, definitive, with a touch of daring, Melodie puts her creative flair on every project she works on. Often playful in her approach, mixing color and materials that walk the line between joyful and sophisticated.

Melodie’s pedigree fills the spectrum; as she has worked with the finest of boutique fashion designers, to working side by side with nationally acclaimed events planners and caterers. For two years, Melodie enjoyed her time in the visual arts department for consulting giant McKensey & Co. After moving to the Austin area, she experienced her first entrepreneurial success, with MELT, her organic candle and bath and body line that was exclusively found in Hotel ZaZa, as well as carried by Austin design staple Big Red Sun. She designed and managed exclusive multifamily and mix-used projects in Houston and Dallas. Along with remodel of multiple student housing projects in the Austin area. Melodie’s interiors were featured on HGTV’s “Small Space, Big Style” and seen in several publications.