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AMC Design Award winning interior designer- SBID Awards 2023: Finalist SBID Awards 2024: Finalist Northern Design Awards 2024: SBID Finalist 2024

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28/05/2026

Had a clear out and found some of my first press pieces from 2016.

It’s slightly like finding old photos of yourself. A bit cringey, but also quite nice to see how far things have come.

The business has changed so much in the last ten years, and so have I as a designer.

Very grateful to those early clients who trusted me when I was still finding my feet.

Here’s to the next ten years.

Photography by Colin Poole and article by heatherburtonartist

On the hottest day of the year so far, sometimes all you can do is hide inside, where it's just *that* bit cooler. In th...
26/05/2026

On the hottest day of the year so far, sometimes all you can do is hide inside, where it's just *that* bit cooler. In this contemporary extension, greeny-blue walls complement the rich teal sofa and complement the orance accents.

Colour can make all the difference to how a room feels. And on days like today, we all need every bit of help to feel even just a little cooler!

Photography by David Lindsay.

Interior design isn’t always the pretty bit at the end.Sometimes it’s this. A garden room and family room layout, workin...
22/05/2026

Interior design isn’t always the pretty bit at the end.

Sometimes it’s this. A garden room and family room layout, working through how the spaces connect, where the furniture sits, what the lighting needs to do, and how the room will actually be used.

The nice things come later.

This is the bit that makes them work, and ensures that it's a space that the homeowners love, long after our involvement is over.

I think this downstairs loo was kind of meh. Which is mildly ridiculous given I designed the thing.The stripes went on ...
20/05/2026

I think this downstairs loo was kind of meh. Which is mildly ridiculous given I designed the thing.

The stripes went on during lockdown and, for the record, painting horizontal stripes in a Victorian house is not for the faint-hearted. The walls aren’t straight, the ceilings aren’t level and even with a laser level you start questioning your life choices halfway through.

I’d always loved the heels photograph but even once I had it reframed, the room still felt a bit… unfinished. Too careful maybe. So I finally started shopping my own house properly, added more art, moved things around and stopped overthinking it.

Now it feels like it has a point of view.

The green Oliver Bonas vase was a 50th birthday present from my daughter and somehow it was the thing that tipped the room into making sense.

There’s also a gold ceiling up there, just out of shot, because if you can’t be a bit bold in a downstairs loo, where can you?

Small rooms can absolutely carry big personality. In fact, they probably should.

One of the things we spoke about during last week’s panel talk with Straw and Dowsing-Reynolds at the new Dowsing & Re...
18/05/2026

One of the things we spoke about during last week’s panel talk with Straw and Dowsing-Reynolds at the new Dowsing & Reynolds showroom was how much interior design is really about people and how they live.

Clients are often slightly surprised by the questions I ask in those early meetings. We’ll obviously talk about the house, but we’ll also talk about daily routines, whether somebody leaves for an early train every morning, whether they go to the gym before work, where bags and shoes tend to get dumped, or what family life actually looks like on a normal Tuesday evening.

Because those details really matter.

A house for a single 60 year old is going to function completely differently to a busy family home with small children, or a house full of teenagers, pets and sports kit.

That understanding is usually what makes the difference between a house that simply looks good and one that genuinely works properly for the people living in it.

Lovely evening at the opening of the new Dowsing & Reynolds showroom last night.It was great to speak about lighting and...
15/05/2026

Lovely evening at the opening of the new Dowsing & Reynolds showroom last night.

It was great to speak about lighting and design, especially for a brand I’ve used on projects for years. Their Bubble chandelier is one I keep coming back to because it just works. Characterful without being overdesigned, good quality, sensibly priced and versatile enough to sit happily in lots of different settings.

Always nice to see a Yorkshire brand doing well, particularly one that genuinely understands how people live with design day to day.

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Should you have a wet room shower?Maybe.But not just because it sounds more “designed”.I was talking to a friend over th...
11/05/2026

Should you have a wet room shower?

Maybe.

But not just because it sounds more “designed”.

I was talking to a friend over the weekend who is doing up her bathroom, and this came up.

We do specify wet room showers, but usually where there’s a clear reason: mobility, futureproofing, or a client who really wants that hotel-style shower because they’ve experienced it and love it.

They’re not automatically better than a well-designed shower with a tray.

They usually cost more to install, the tanking has to be spot on, and if there’s a problem later, it can be a lot more involved to fix.

So for me, it comes back to the same question as most design decisions:

What does this actually need to do for the client, the house and the budget?

Photography by David Lindsay

Midweek after a bank holiday always feels slightly disjointed somehow.There’s a lot happening here at the moment. Some p...
06/05/2026

Midweek after a bank holiday always feels slightly disjointed somehow.

There’s a lot happening here at the moment. Some projects are just beginning to take shape, while others that have been quietly developing for months are finally moving onto site. It’s always satisfying when ideas that have existed in drawings, samples and conversations start becoming real spaces.

Our grid probably suggests we do a lot of colour. And we do. I love colour. But the real thread running through our projects is always the client themselves, not a particular house style.

This bedroom, overlooking the sea in Guernsey, was designed for the daughter of the family. Calm, soft and familiar rather than dramatic. We carried through elements of the palette from her bedroom in their main home, so that arriving here still felt instinctively comfortable. Less holiday house, more immediate sense of belonging.

Those quieter decisions are often the ones that matter most.

Photography by Chris Snook.

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