Colorado Homes and Lifestyles magazine Five Under Forty award winners 2017

The class of 2017 is shining bright and upping our design quotient inside, outside, and all around the state.

"Everyone has a personal style, whether they know it or not," says Ostheimer.

"The process of creation has always intrigued me, and architecture is such an interesting way to do that," says Wilson.

"Colorado and the mountains were in such contrast to what I knew growing up. It was kind of a fairyland," says Callaway.

"We want all of our designs to tell a story. So as you're walking through a space, at each turn you have a sense of that," says Ellis.

"It's the combination of the unexpected, the layers, that make a kitchen spectacular," says La Hay.