Because I worked on the design of the rest of the building and the three show flats on the floor below, when these clients bought their bare shell penthouse space, they asked me to design it for them. They were a couple who worked in the city, and wanted a very...
I was originally asked to design two wall storage units to incorporate their television and hi-fi equipment etc, and the brief was to be as original as possible. This then led to designing quite a few more pieces of furniture throughout their ground floor, plus some...
This client called me initially to ask about the products I had used in a bathroom she had seen in a magazine. Because all these items were bespoke, she then asked me to work on the interior design of her whole house. The living/ dining room was long and narrow, so...
There were two parts to this project. The clients wanted the unconverted basement made into two guest rooms with en-suite shower rooms, plus a utility room. The three floors above just needed furniture, furnishings and art. Although the basement had already been damp...
In 1987 I bought a space in a converted Victorian Dog Biscuit factory for my self and my husband to live and work in. Apart from an existing mezzanine above the entrance door it was a bare shell, measuring about six by six by twelve metres – a double cube. The biggest...
I was recommended for this job by the contractor. The brief was to create a party room on the top floor of a large Georgian house, and the starting point was an Art Deco bar, Art Deco stools and two Art Deco sofas all bought from a flea market in Paris. They wanted a...
This two storey penthouse flat in London’s West End had quite a low ceiling to its lower floor and hence was rather gloomy. In contrast, the upper floor had one open plan room with floor to ceiling windows on three sides, boasting magnificent views over London’s...
This client initially called me for some product advice, having seen a bathroom I had designed in a magazine. After a brief discussion he decided that he was ill-equipped to create his ‘dream’ bathroom on his own, and felt that by employing me, he would get a better...
I was recommended by some existing clients for this project. This two floor apartment required a complete facelift and it needed much more light. I changed all the finishes, the lighting, the electrics, the kitchen, put in new bathrooms, raised all the doorways to...
I had originally worked for this client designing a party room for her top floor, but with three children later, her home requirements had changed. She wanted to give her whole house a face lift, and re-configure some of the rooms to work more efficiently. Sadly (for...
I have been working for these clients for several years and I had already completed the interior design of their formal living room a couple of years before, when they called me in to work on their Master Bedroom suite. The existing interior had been inherited from...
In 1999 I bought a chapel as a place to live and work in. It was joined to a Victorian College, but was itself very much late Arts and Crafts. As it was a Grade II listed building I worked closely with English Heritage to ensure it maintained its unique historic...
I had worked on two previous homes for these clients, and they enlisted my help once again on this splendid and very large two floor apartment. Most of the job required furniture and furnishings including working with the client to select eighteenth century antiques....
I was commissioned to work on this four storey house by one of my existing clients who’s pregnant daughter and family (including a large dog) were moving back to the UK after spending several years abroad. At the time I was living in Singapore, my client was in...
I was recommended for this job by Shipshape Construction Ltd. The apartment consisted of three quite bleak floors above a shop and the client was quite keen on the clean minimal and architectural look which I am known for. I re-configured the spaces to provide an open...
I was recommended to work on the furniture and furnishings for this newly converted apartment in a Victorian mansion block, but because the building work was still being completed when I was engaged on the project, I was able add some input into some of the finishing...
I was recommended for this job by Shipshape Construction Ltd. My clients had bought a large 5 storey house in Victoria which was very run down and in desperate need of re-furbishment. The first phase of the project was to separate the basement from the rest of the...
My clients were an antique dealer and an artist, so when they asked me what I could do for their three storey house, I suggested that I should create a clean and minimal blank canvas for their artefacts and art. I achieved this by designing shelved niches wherever...
I was engaged to re-design this complete 4 storey house, but the largest challenge was to re-configure the ground floor. The original layout incorporated a standard doorway from a narrow hallway into a kitchen/ dining area. Then access to the living room was past a WC...
Having successfully completed the basement renovation, we were then ready to tackle the 4 upper floors. The ground floor was completely opened up so that that the staircase became the only visual division between the entrance hall and the kitchen. Again I worked...
My clients live and work in San Francisco but as enthusiastic Anglophiles they decided to buy themselves this ‘pied-a-terre’ in London. They love the city of London’s history and found this apartment on the top floor of a stunning, newly restored, grade 2 listed...
I was first involved in the renovation of this property when my clients bought it nearly twenty years ago. Recently, they called me in again to change the existing cinema room into a gym. The lady of the house is keen on exercising to the Zumba videos she sources from...
Having already worked on this client’s London home, my brief here was to re-configure the layout of most of the existing building, including completely new lighting and plumbing schemes. So, for example, the existing family room, utility room and WC became a large...
I was recommended for this job by a banker who had funded several housing developments that I had worked on previously. The clients are farmers and had been wondering what to do with this large, empty, disused barn for several years. Eventually they decided to convert...
This 4 storey house in one of Bow's conservation areas had been rented out for many years on a room by room basis so it was in quite a bad state. Respectful of the building's heritage (and working with the planners) we wanted to blend its period features with high-end...
I had worked for these clients on a full house restoration 12 years before, but with 2 growing daughter's they had out-grown that house and needed to find somewhere bigger and with a much larger garden. Their new purchase was a very tired, 4-storey house in desperate...