Stories, Guidance, and Real Project Experience from Cambridge and Beyond
Each article is rooted in hands-on experience — drawn from real homes, real planning, and real hurdles overcome.
From poetic reflections to practical how-to guidance, these pieces offer insight into the ideas, decisions, and quiet details behind each space. Whether you're exploring materials, layouts, emotional clarity, or location-specific design, this archive is shaped to be quietly helpful and deeply human.
How a Concept Board Shapes a Project: Clarity, Calm and Material Intelligence
A concept board is the quiet foundation of every successful home design. It brings clarity, confidence and direction, guiding every decision and ensuring your space feels coherent, modern and deeply connected to its architecture.
Holland Park: Where Architectural Sensitivity Meets Contemporary Calm
Holland Park’s Victorian villas and Arts & Crafts homes respond beautifully to calm, contemporary design. A thoughtful approach that balances architectural sensitivity with modern living — shaped by the clarity I bring to my Cambridge projects.
Designing for London Homes: A Calm, Contemporary Approach to Small, Historic and Architecturally Complex Spaces
A calm, contemporary approach to London living — thoughtful design for small flats, period homes and complex townhouses. Rooted in Cambridge clarity, shaped for the rhythm of London.
Interior Designer vs Interior Decorator: A Clear, Calm Guide for Cambridge & Beyond
Interior designers and interior decorators often touch the same elements — colour, light, furniture, atmosphere. This calm guide explains the difference in scope, responsibility and depth, without hierarchy or judgement.
🖤Art Nouveau: Europe’s First Breath of Modernism
Art Nouveau marked Europe’s first step into modernism — a celebration of craftsmanship, bespoke pieces and natural materials. This article explores how the movement still shapes contemporary interiors across Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and London.
Bathroom Lighting Guide: Safe, Modern Lighting Design for UK Homes (IP Ratings Explained)
Bathroom lighting is one of the most overlooked yet safety‑critical parts of a renovation. This guide explains UK bathroom zones, IP ratings, and how a lighting‑literate interior designer in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire creates modern, compliant, beautifully lit spaces.
Why Curves Matter: The Rise of Soft Architecture in Modern Interiors
Curves are reshaping modern interiors — bringing softness, flow and emotional warmth into contemporary spaces. From curved walls to bespoke rounded furniture, discover why soft architecture is becoming a defining element of design across Cambridge, Wyboston and London.
🖤Art Deco: Geometry, Craft and the Birth of Modern Interior Design
Art Deco marked the moment when modern design found its confidence — geometric, crafted, and forward-looking. This article explores how the movement still shapes contemporary interiors across Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and London today.
Bathroom Renovation Costs in London: What to Expect in 2025
A clear, design‑led guide to bathroom renovation costs in London for 2025 — including budgets, timelines, hidden costs and how to create a calm, modern, architectural bathroom.
Interior Design: A Complete Guide to Modern, Contemporary and Architectural Interiors in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and London
Interior design is not decoration — it is architecture, proportion and clarity. This guide explores modern and contemporary interiors, concept design, and how thoughtful planning shapes kitchens, bathrooms and whole homes across Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and London.
The Power of Proportion: How to Design Rooms That Feel Balanced and Architectural
Proportion is the quiet architecture behind every balanced room. This article explores rhythm, light, and negative space through a modernist lens — written by a Cambridge interior designer specialising in calm, timeless, quietly luxurious interiors.
Bathroom Design in Cambridgeshire: Creating Calm, Grounded, Architectural Spaces
Bathrooms designed for quiet luxury and architectural calm. Explore material intelligence, proportion, and lighting — plus two new London concepts from a Cambridge-based interior designer.
Quiet Luxury Interiors: How to Design Spaces That Feel Calm, Textural and Architectural
Quiet luxury isn’t about expensive choices — it’s about understanding materials, proportion, and the design process. This guide explores how to create calm, textural, architectural interiors through thoughtful concept design and material‑led decisions that age beautifully.
🖤Brutalism: The Beauty of Bare Materials in Contemporary Interior Design
Brutalism brings clarity, texture, and material honesty into contemporary homes. As a Cambridge and London interior designer, I explore how concrete, stone, and natural finishes shape sculptural kitchens, calming bathrooms, and grounded, modern living.
🖤 Marcel Breuer — The Strength of Simplicity
Marcel Breuer united structure, clarity, and Central European modernism into a quiet, confident design language. His work still guides Cambridge and shire homes toward simplicity, strength, and intentional living.
🖤 Alvar Aalto — The Warmth of Modernism
Alvar Aalto brought warmth to modernism through natural materials, soft curves, and light shaped with emotional intelligence. His human-centred approach still inspires calm, grounded homes across Cambridge, London, and the surrounding shire.
🖤 Le Corbusier — The Poetry of Order
Le Corbusier reshaped modern living through proportion, light, and a deeply human vision of order. His ideas — born from post-war rebuilding — still guide homes across Cambridge and the shire toward clarity, calm, and purpose.
🖤 Mies van der Rohe — Less, But Deeper
Mies van der Rohe’s philosophy of clarity and proportion continues to shape modern living. From Brno to Cambridge, his quiet confidence inspires homes designed with intention, emotional depth, and a sense of calm.
🖤Eileen Gray — Designing for Quiet Souls and Modern Lives
Eileen Gray’s Transat chair blends sculptural clarity with emotional comfort — a modernist icon born in Manik Bagh Palace, now inspiring thoughtful interiors across Cambridge, London, and Cambridgeshire’s quietly elegant homes.
How to Make Your Home Feel Finished -Without Buying More Stuff
A home feels finished when the pieces are the right size, shape, and proportion — not when you buy more. This guide helps you see your space differently, with thoughtful storage, balanced layouts, and calm, intentional design.