Creating your Perfect Home with Teresa B. Brown

By Natasha Kubis

Teresa B. Brown knows your home is where your story begins, and she makes it her business to help you define your design and tell your story. As a real estate agent, interior designer, and owner of Digs Home, a home goods store in Burnsville, Teresa creates authentic places for her clients to live and play.

As a designer, Teresa’s timeless aesthetic balances creativity with functionality. She believes simplicity is elegant and she emphasizes nature to promote wholesome and healthy living. Her style has a seamless flow, and her free-spirited aesthetic mixes various design expressions for the best results.

Teresa’s diverse portfolio exemplifies her approach to different interior design types, from traditional and mid-century to modern styles. She finds ways to honor history by showcasing heirloom pieces and antiques. She often thinks outside the box by bending the rules for more playful outcomes, for example, placing unusual objects in unexpected places or combining relics of the past and signature antiques with modern and new pieces.

She notes that most people have sentimental items they’ve collected along the way that carry emotional value, and she works to integrate these pieces tastefully and seamlessly. She brings nature inside by using a calming and subtle color palette and incorporates greenery and fresh flowers, often preferring to use what’s available around the home’s yard, like ferns, o