Jacqui McFarland
Licenced Interior Designer, Senior Associate, Studio Elder NCIDQ, AAA, FIDEC, Professor Emerita MRU
For Jacqui, a life in design has always meant more than creating beautiful spaces. Since 1984, she’s moved fluidly between practice and professorship, bringing the same hallmark curiosity, warmth, and rigour to both.
Known for her gift of thoughtfully engaging clients and turning their aspirations into interiors that genuinely uplift, Jacqui treats every project with craftsmanship and originality. It’s an approach that informs unique and elegant solutions that only decades of listening can shape. Her credentials? Extensive, hard-earned, and seriously impressive. With over three decades of award-winning practice and academic leadership, Jacqui stands among the leading figures in Canadian interior design. As former Principal at Stantec and Senior Associate at Sizeland Evans, she has shaped landmark projects through thoughtful, human-centred work, from the BMO Centre Expansion to ATCO Commercial Commons. As Department Chair at Mount Royal University, she reshaped the future of the field, guiding the Interior Design program from a humble diploma into a CIDA-accredited degree, a legacy still felt across the profession today. Professor Emerita, NCIDQ certified, AAA licensed, and a sitting Commissioner with the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, Jacqui has quite simply earned all the flowers. Always seeking joy, Jacqui is an avid skier still carving up double black diamond runs (because of course she is), and an artist with a predilection for solo travel who finds as much inspiration on the back-roads of Saskatchewan as she does in the north of Spain. And true to form, she’s notorious – lovingly – for leaving every room a little richer than she found it, whether that means her wallet, her jacket, or a brand new friend.