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Cornwall Gardens London

Rushmore Road kitchen renovation

Lilienthalstrasse berlin

Lilienthalstrasse Berlin

Childrens Bedroom/nursery Berlin

Kortestrasse kids room Berlin

Stoke Newington- Kitchen renovation

Rykestrasse Entire Home Interior Design/Furniture sourcing

This project was enormous. This international couple from South Africa and San Francisco, who had lived in Berlin for over five years had been in rented, furnished accommodation and owned no furniture. They acquired this wonderful space, three apartments joined together, as an empty white shell. 

I worked from the ground up intensively to bring the colour palette and wallpapers followed by the every single item of furniture, art, rug, light, vase and fitting. 

The furniture was mostly sourced from online vintage sources such as Vintage, Pamono, Vinterior and local independent shops in and around Berlin. Other pieces were commissioned, or designed.

An exciting, fulfilling project and now a beautiful, eclectic home. For more information on the colour palette or sourcing do contact me.



Rykestrasse, Berlin

Shared reading studio space, Berlin

This is a centrally located open studio space in the heart of Kreuzberg. The concept is that you can feel safe and at home to read and share in the heart of the space. Therefore, it needed to be cosy and modern and inviting as well as professional.

Shared reading studio, Berlin

RitterStrasse

This job was a real challenge. The people who were about to move into this empty space are a lovely family with rich interests - travel, theatre, teaching, languages, dance etc - but for me the space had very little natural charm. 

In fact it included many of my bug bear hates; low ceilings laminate floors, pebble dash walls, box-like rooms. I was determined to do everything in my power to load it with charm, but keep a feeling of modernity and space.

The huge charm it does have comes from the spacious terrace that leads off  the living room and which fills the place with sunlight, and the smaller balcony on the other side which wraps around the living area and kitchen meaning the whole place is light-filled. 

After a huge mood board was made, taken from children's story books, Pinterest,  information gathered about what kind of people they were, how they live and host, and what season their personalities are etc (Mara Lena is very spring/summer and her husband Mirko more autumn) we arrived at some great ideas. 

The place needed to be modern and fresh, open and with a spacious fresh feeling, but also they are welcoming warm people who like to host and travel, and bold bright people who thrive around colour. And of course, there are kids in the house, so there needs to be a level of practicality and ease.

Farrow & Ball's Calamine turned out to be the tone I chose for the living area. 
It's a soft, browny-blush pink that works beautifully with the enormous cream sofa, and with the dark brown tones of the floor and the very dark piano. This soft colour would create a warmth and work really well with the browns and it has a kind of old-world elegance, while also keeping the freshness. 

Not all the walls were painted. That would create too much of a box feeling so I left 'breathing' walls of white.

The kitchen area, as the heart of a family home, needed more of a strong beat, a fresh, lively colour and one that worked with the blush pink. 

The two colours would at points be seen together and at points alone so it had to work and have it's own life. 

A greyish blue tone turned out to be just perfect. The blue has a calmness and quietness but also a joyfulness for the area where the family will eat and entertain. It also makes the drawings and pictures and flowers and food and books of life that will fill that area 'pop' and look like art, as opposed to just looking like mess. 

For the office, which is filled with dappled light and views of trees we painstakingly leafed through many many wallpapers and ended up with William Morris's Honeysuckle. 

I used many objects the family were about to throw out or replace, and instead upcycled them, such as old ikea shelves, a lamp and chairs, as well as creating new clever cheap solutions by making them a desk and planning shelving in clever spaces. 

Areas were brocken down into to zones and then cushions, throws, art, vases, shelving, lights rugs etc were sourced and chosen for each area.

We worked hard and we worked around busy schedules and family life, but we made it happen and I'm very happy with the results.






RitterStrasse, Berlin

Front of house

This was a big, challenging project. To bring a dilapidated, but very special place back to life after years of neglect. It was damp and rundown, and the rooms and corridors were laid out in such a way that blocked the light. So, it was knocked through and opened up.

The tones of smart greys, deep blues and softer blues gave the house a smart, clean and calm feel. It needed that to make it feel less chaotic. The classical palette was repeated throughout, and set against raw materials like wood, marble and exposed brick. So the feel throughout is modern and contemporary.

When I discovered some already exposed brick work or old beams along the way, I was able to keep them. 

The project was very low budget, so street finds were painted with love and upcycled with care! Offers and hand-me-downs were carefully chosen and accepted. It was about keeping in mind the bigger picture. 

The house was rented out when we left the Uk and the reactions from tenants has been overwhelmingly positive.

Rushmore Road, London

Studio Rifa collaboration with Pappel Mobel

Studio Rifa / Pappel Mobel

Weserstrasse, hallway/entrance

This beautiful space in Weserstrasse, was not anywhere near being used to its full potential. The rooms were over whelmed by clutter and life, a life well lived that didn't have time for being re-designed. 

The interior project  therefore very much involved aiding and abetting the family's busy lifestyle; creating calm zones, implementing systems, warming up the sharpness and easing the dredge of every day difficulties through the harmony of space, zones and colour. 

The project is still ongoing as I have only worked on the kitchen and the hallway.

The budget was low and the timing was tricky as the family have young kids but we worked around all the problems and made a huge change.

The feel that the couple wanted was something cosy and homely, but they were also desperate for a sense of calm, and some order. The words funky, modern and fresh, 'not too designy', a 'a real home', were also terms they used.

I decided that Farrow & Ball's deep Stiffkey Blue paint was modern and cool, but also cosy. The William Morris wallpaper added an old English charm (the clients Rosa and Loki are English/German) and was in-keeping with their love of the countryside and cooking and combined the idea of a cosy English, as well as modern European home. 

The corridor was a challenge. I felt it needed turning from a cluttered gangway into a room of its own and I think we managed that. People now linger there. 

The kitchen needed to find a balance between being a place to accommodate the kids and adults; so I decided to push the "messy"/"playful" end and make it into a full blown art corner for the kids, and smarten up the relaxing adult end.  


Weserstrasse, Berlin

Urbanstrasse - Living Room

Urbanstrasse was like an empty page, waiting for a story to be written, The story needed to be one about a growing family, something cosy and warm, but fresh, bright and spacious. A family moving to this apartment who need to feel at home. The colour palette is like a refrain throughout the house giving it a sense of whole; fresh white, rich grey/blue and dark chalky blacks, offset by raw material, wood, marble, iron.

Urbanstrasse, Berlin

Barn conversion, Almondsbury

Stokey Newington

Stoke Newington Bathroom

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