I’m Kimberly Sevilla. My path here wasn’t straight, and that’s exactly the point.
I grew up in West Virginia, and was a white water raft guide as a teenager — one of the only women doing it. That early lesson stuck: the hardest routes are usually the most worthwhile.
A biochemistry degree took me to New York City, where I spent the 90s as a creative director for technology companies, sitting at the intersection of science and design. I worked on a project with NASA and the Smithsonian and presented it directly to Al Gore. I designed luxury retail interiors and window displays for manufacturing companies that operated at the highest levels of craft.
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I founded Rose Red & Lavender — a flower shop and garden center that became a genuine neighborhood institution, built on workshops, community, and the belief that beauty belongs in everyday life.
Long before the pandemic, I was already asking the question most people never think to ask:
What are we actually breathing?
Working as a lab technician in USDA clean rooms, I learned exactly what’s in the air — and exactly what it does to the human body. Living in Brooklyn, raising a family in a city full of diesel exhaust, old buildings, and sealed windows, that knowledge wasn’t abstract. It was personal. At Rose Red & Lavender, I gave talks on plants and indoor air quality to anyone who’d listen, because I genuinely believed — and still believe — that the air inside your home is one of the most important things you can control.
We had already moved to the Hudson Valley when the pandemic hit and the world locked down, I wasn’t suddenly discovering indoor air quality. I was watching everyone else finally catch up.
My chemistry background and building science instincts pointed me straight toward thermodynamics and system design. I became BPI and NATE certified and went to work for an HVAC company, training hands-on in the field — and what I discovered was that most of the industry was leaving enormous value on the table. Efficiency, comfort, air quality — none of it can be solved by equipment alone. HVAC is a building performance problem, and you can’t engineer your way around a leaky envelope or a poorly designed system.
That gap is why Shelter Air exists.
I’m also a mom, a wife, a volunteer firefighter, and a sailor on the Hudson. Community isn’t a footnote for me — it’s the whole reason any of this matters.
We are not an ordinary HVAC company. The résumé above is why.
The people behind Shelter Air are genuinely good at what they do — and genuinely good to each other.
Our technicians show up every day ready to learn, ready to work, and ready to treat your home with the same care they’d want for their own. That’s not a talking point. It’s just who they are. Honestly, I’m lucky to have them.
We’re a small team by design. Everyone here is invested in getting it right — not just technically, but in how we communicate, how we problem-solve, and how we leave a job site. We hold ourselves to a high standard because our clients deserve it, and because we actually care about the outcome.
HVAC is a field that rewards experience, but also humility — because the science keeps evolving and the best installers know there’s always more to learn. That’s the culture we’ve built at Shelter Air. Curious, careful, and kind.
Quality Partners We Trust
