Oct 7, 2026 · 48 min · 10 segments
Courtney Petrovich didn’t start out thinking she would become a designer, let alone build a design firm working on hotels and high-end short-term rentals. In this episode of Inside First, Courtney…
Courtney PetrovichGuestPunith UpadhyaHostBrendan DauenhauerHost
Yeah, I didn't know I had a passion for design, which sounds strange, but I grew up and my parents had bought this 1912.
And then as I grew up, they rebuilt the two additional structures that were once dairy barns.
But my dad... was a carpenter and learned electricity and plumbing and everything.
And we had old whiskey bottles that we found under the front porch from the prohibition era.
And so really just spending my life watching them build up that property and Like walking through the open studs of the walls as a kid and rubbing my hands against the wood.
That I kind of put away as I went to college and, you know, got a master's degree in public health, something completely unrelated.
And this just surfaced that as I was designing the short term run on like, oh, my gosh, this is like carrying forward everything that I learned growing up.
I actually really want to dive into that story because one of the things that's so cool is how important legacy is to you.
And so when we talk about Denori, it is truly rooted in, you know, the legacy of your family too.
Unfortunately, I lost them both in 2015 and decided, made the difficult decision to sell that property that was their life's work and pursue my dream of moving to Colorado and being in the mountains.
and I just always want to honor the roots that they gave me, and so it seemed natural to name this after them and to carry forward the way of building and craftsmanship that they did because my dad was so meticulous, and they preserved the original wood floors in that house and all the architectural details, and my mom sewed, so she stitched every curtain that was in the house, and so that's...
Denori is my way of bringing that forward into every project and every guest who gets to experience staying at one of our projects.
Yeah, I didn't know I had a passion for design, which sounds strange, but I grew up and my parents had bought this 1912.
And then as I grew up, they rebuilt the two additional structures that were once dairy barns.
But my dad... was a carpenter and learned electricity and plumbing and everything.
And we had old whiskey bottles that we found under the front porch from the prohibition era.
And so really just spending my life watching them build up that property and Like walking through the open studs of the walls as a kid and rubbing my hands against the wood.
That I kind of put away as I went to college and, you know, got a master's degree in public health, something completely unrelated.
And this just surfaced that as I was designing the short term run on like, oh, my gosh, this is like carrying forward everything that I learned growing up.
I actually really want to dive into that story because one of the things that's so cool is how important legacy is to you.
And so when we talk about Denori, it is truly rooted in, you know, the legacy of your family too.
Unfortunately, I lost them both in 2015 and decided, made the difficult decision to sell that property that was their life's work and pursue my dream of moving to Colorado and being in the mountains.
and I just always want to honor the roots that they gave me, and so it seemed natural to name this after them and to carry forward the way of building and craftsmanship that they did because my dad was so meticulous, and they preserved the original wood floors in that house and all the architectural details, and my mom sewed, so she stitched every curtain that was in the house, and so that's...
Denori is my way of bringing that forward into every project and every guest who gets to experience staying at one of our projects.
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