What if your home could work better for the life you live now?
Does your home look fine, but just not feel right?
Maybe there's a room you've never quite managed to get to work well?
Or perhaps you have lots of ideas, but no idea which ones will actually make a difference. So they sit in a folder or on a to do list while you keep living around the problem.
The furniture feels awkward. There's never enough storage. The lighting doesn't work how you need it to.
You're constantly moving things around, making compromises or wondering why the room doesn't feel as good as you thought it would.
Maybe you're planning something bigger.
A renovation.
An extension.
A reconfiguration.
You know you're ready to change your home, but before you start spending serious money, you want to know you're making the right changes.
Because sometimes the thing you think needs fixing isn't actually the problem.
You might think you need more storage.
A bigger kitchen.
An extension.
A different layout.
To knock a wall down.
And maybe you do.
But I want to investigate first.
Why isn’t it working?
What are you trying to make possible?
Is more space really the answer?
What else changes if we change this?
Before we start designing the answer,
we need to understand what problem we're actually trying to solve.
That's where I come in.
an interior designer and architectural consultant, and I love getting to the bottom of why a home isn't working and figuring out what could make it better.
I don't believe good design starts with choosing colours, cushions or beautiful things.
It starts with questions.
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How do you actually use the space?
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What's working?
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What isn't?
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Where does everyone naturally end up?
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What are you constantly moving, adapting or working around?
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What do you wish you could do here that you can't do now?
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What have you become so used to that you've stopped noticing it altogether?
Those are the clues,and they are usually where I start.
Hi, I'm Katherine,
More than 20 years of seeing beyond how a space looks.
Over 20 years working across architectural and interior design, from family homes and residential interiors to boutique hotels, hospitality, retail and commercial spaces, has taught me to look beyond how a space looks and pay attention to how it actually works.
I look at the layout, light, movement, storage, materials and all those little frustrations and quietly difficult things you might have stopped noticing.
And because my experience spans both the creative and technical sides of design, I'm thinking not only about what could look beautiful, but how it will actually work, how one decision affects another and what it will be like to live with.
Then I bring those clues together to work out what really needs to change.
Sometimes it's rethinking a room that's never quite worked.
And sometimes it's a much bigger transformation.
It might be about fixing what's frustrating you.
Or it might be about seeing possibilities in your home that you couldn't quite see yourself.
Either way, my job is to make sense of the clues, questions, ideas and possibilities and turn them into a clear direction for what needs to change.
So you can stop moving things around.
Stop working around the same frustrations.
Stop second-guessing every decision.
And start making choices with confidence because you understand what needs to change, why it needs to change and how it all works together.
Ultimately, we're creating a home that works properly for the way you live and feels like yours.
Because your home should work for your life.