Copper Vixen Interiors

31/10/2026

I’m trying my hand at something new… blogging! 🦊

There are just two posts so far. The first shares a little about me, the story behind Copper Vixen and how I approach designing homes.

The second, ‘Designing a Home with Pets in Mind’, covers something I’m particularly passionate about as an animal lover: creating homes that work for everyone who lives there, including those on four legs.

I’ll be sharing a new blog each month, and I’d love your input. What do you struggle with at home? What would you like some ideas or advice on? Leave a comment below—your question could inspire a future post.

You can read both blogs here:
https://www.coppervixeninteriors.co.uk/blog

Follow Copper Vixen Interiors for the next instalment, along with practical ideas and inspiration for your home.

Explore ideas for a home that feels like you, from clever layouts and colour choices to designing with pets in mind. Monthly insights from Copper Vixen Interiors

29/10/2026

Your furniture might fit. That doesn’t mean the layout works.

A room isn’t only the furniture that fits inside it.

It also needs enough space to move comfortably around that furniture.
If you’re constantly squeezing behind chairs, walking around the long side of an island or navigating around the corner of a sofa, you’re losing something just as valuable as storage: circulation.

Good spatial planning considers the empty space too.
Those clear routes between doors, furniture and adjoining rooms are what make a home feel easy to move through.
Sometimes removing one item or changing its orientation creates more usable space than adding another piece ever could.

27/10/2026

Project Euchar: the kitchen wasn’t the only space that needed looking at.

The brief at Project Euchar began with a small kitchen and a desire for more prep space, storage and somewhere for the family to gather.
But looking only at the kitchen would have limited the solution.

An underused hallway, multiple doorways and an awkward relationship between adjoining spaces were all part of the problem.
By looking at the connected areas together, the layout could work much harder: improving flow, creating more useful kitchen space and finding room for the functions the family actually needed.

This is why spatial planning rarely stops neatly at the doorway of the room that’s frustrating you.
Homes work as a whole.

If your kitchen problem seems impossible to solve within the kitchen itself, Home Flow looks at connected spaces together. Please get in touch for a complimentary Discovery Call if you think I can help you with your space.

26/10/2026

Renovating, extending or wondering how to make your home work better for you? Come and have a chat! 🦊

I'll be at The South West Homebuilding & Renovation Show at the Bath & West Showground on 14 - 15 November, alongside Copper Fox Building Services.
Find us on stand 523, where we can talk through your ideas, from clever layouts and characterful interiors to the building work that brings them to life.
Whether you have plans underway or are just exploring the possibilities, we'd love to meet you.
🎟 Claim your two free tickets using my unique link:

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25/10/2026

Designing a home for pets is about more than a pretty dog bed.

Pets affect the way a home works — in very practical ways.
Where do muddy paws come in?
Where are leads stored?
Where does the food live?
Can the dog settle near the family without blocking a walkway?
Is there a warm sunny spot the cat has already claimed regardless of your plans?

Designing around pets doesn’t mean turning your home into a kennel or cattery.
It simply means accepting that they’re part of the household and giving their routines a little thought too.

The best interiors make room for everyone who lives there — including the four-legged ones.
Pet owners: what has your animal completely dictated in your home?

22/10/2026

A doorway can dictate an entire room.

Doorways are easy to accept as fixed points.
But their position — and even the direction a door opens — can determine where furniture fits, how space is accessed and whether an entire wall is useful or wasted.

When I look at a floor plan, I’m not only looking at the size of each room.
I’m looking at:
• are there awkward or inaccessible access points
• whether doors collide with furniture
• whether an opening could be narrowed, moved, made bigger or closed

A surprisingly small architectural change can sometimes unlock a much better layout.

If one awkward doorway is dictating how an entire room works, Home Flow can help you look at the bigger picture. Feel free to get in touch and tell me what’s frustrating you.

20/10/2026

What do you actually do on a Sunday afternoon?

It sounds like a slightly odd question for an interior designer to ask.
But it tells me far more than “What style do you like?”

Do you curl up with a book?
Watch films together?
Cook for friends?
Work on hobbies?
Spend half the day in the garden with the door open?
Have grandchildren charging through the house?

Those answers affect layouts, lighting, storage, furniture and even which spaces deserve the most room.
A home works best when it supports the life happening inside it.

What does a typical Sunday look like in your home? 🦊

18/10/2026

A neutral room can feel beautifully restful.

It can also feel flat.

The difference is often in the layers: variation in tone, texture, natural materials, contrast, lighting and the things that give the room personality.

If everything is the same pale colour, same smooth finish and same visual weight, there’s very little for the eye to settle on.

You don’t necessarily need brighter colour.

You might need timber, linen, wool, stone, pattern, artwork, greenery, a deeper tone or simply something with a story.

Calm rooms still need character.

If choosing a palette is what’s keeping your room stuck, Find Your Palette is designed to give you a clear, cohesive direction. Get in touch if you’d like help finding yours.

15/10/2026

Got a room you hardly ever use?

If one room in your home sits empty most of the week while another feels permanently overcrowded, I’d question whether those spaces are doing the right jobs.

We often inherit the labels a house gives us: dining room, sitting room, spare bedroom.

But your home doesn’t know what the estate agent called the room.

Could the dining room become a large kitchen / diner?
Could an unused garage become the quiet office that frees up your kitchen table?
Could an underused reception room solve a storage or family-living problem elsewhere?

Spatial planning starts with how you live now — not how the floor plan was originally labelled.

Which room in your home earns its keep the least?

13/10/2026

Project Sycamore — in the client’s words 🦊

One of the loveliest parts of any project is hearing how the finished space has changed the way someone lives in their home.

For Project Sycamore, the aim was to make the ground floor work much harder for the family — improving the entrance, creating better storage, reworking the utility and transforming the kitchen layout.

Here’s what the client had to say:

“We absolutely love what Miranda has done with our kitchen and hallway space. She completely reimagined how we could use the space and saw opportunities we would never have been able to.

Before, we had a cramped entranceway, an unnecessarily large downstairs loo, an awkward pantry and very little storage.

By reworking the layout, we now have a much bigger entranceway with a practical drop zone for all the kids’ stuff, a more proportional downstairs loo, a beautiful and practical utility area, and a really useful butler’s pantry.

The whole space feels bigger, lighter and so much more functional. She has completely changed the way we use our home, and we couldn’t be happier with the result.”

This is why I love spatial planning — not just making a home look better, but helping it work better for the people living in it.

Sometimes the most valuable square metre in the house is already there — it’s just in the wrong place.

If this feels familiar in your own home, this is exactly the kind of problem I tackle through Home Flow. A complimentary Discovery Call is a simple place to start.