Where High-End Design Meets Human-Centered Function

Roula Aloubari is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the faculty at Columbia College Chicago. She is registered interior designer in Illinois and certified by the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ). Roula’s voice on design has been featured in multiple international publications. Her work lives at the intersection of elegance and intention, where every detail carries meaning, and every room tells a story.

Roula’s approach to design is both analytical and poetic: an inheritance from a richly interdisciplinary upbringing. Raised in a family of engineers, she was shaped by a father whose civil engineering mind was trained to analyze and synthesize to break complexity into clarity and build systems with purpose. Her mother, a psychologist and painter, offered a more intuitive lens: one attuned to emotion, color, and the unseen dimensions of space. Between them, Roula discovered a language that honors both structure and soul.

Her residential interiors are known for their quiet luxury which offer timeless, tailored, and deeply personal touches. In the commercial world, she creates spaces that hold identity and purpose in equal measure, whether designing a health clinic, a boutique, or a creative office. Across all projects, her work reflects a commitment to the balance of beauty and utility, presence and peace, and concept and craft.

To Roula, design is more than aesthetics. It is a form of empathy, connection, and an emotional bridge. It is a way of listening to how people live, work, and dream, then shaping space around those rhythms.