decorating is like storytelling, but for your home
interior design & decoration
We are a boutique Sydney based interior design studio focusing on creating beautiful and meaningful spaces for our clients to enjoy.
We offer both interior decorating and interior design services. Don’t know the difference? Simple! Decorating is the fun stuff – think furniture, soft furnishings, art, rugs, decor and accessories. Design is the hard fixtures like tiles, taps, flooring, paint and elements required to build a room.
We love to generate ideas with our clients; brainstorming and dreaming until we create a unique vision which can belong only in their home. We work closely with our clients in a casual and relaxed manner to really draw out what your desires are for your space.
We are passionate about working closely with charities and organisations to help give back to those in need. Recently re-decorating Lou’s Place, a women’s shelter in Sydney and the Child Protection Unit at the Children’s Hospital in Randwick. Our Director, Emma is also a long standing brand ambassador for The Royal Flying Doctors.
Unique spaces, residential & commercial
No two projects are the same for us. We work with you from the initial consultation to determine your end goal with your design project and use this as our guide throughout the process.
Whether we are working on a blank canvas or we’re working with existing pieces, our focus is to ensure your home, retail store or hospitality fit out is unique to you and your needs. Collaboration is key with our projects, we draw out as much detail as possible from our clients in order to ensure we are creating a space you will love. We ask that as many household members as possible can be there for the first meeting so we can be sure to really understand everyone’s key needs and wants before we get started. Good design starts with communication and ends with a beautiful space for you to enjoy.
About Emma
Meet the team
Marj Silva
Senior Interior Designer
Marj loves nothing more than to push the design boundaries within a budgeted price range. It could be said that her superpower is squeezing every last dollar out of a budget! Marj is a qualified interior designer originally from Sau Paulo, Brazil with over a decade’s experience styling and designing for many amazing Australian households, brands and small businesses. Marj has extensive knowledge of Photoshop, InDesign, SketchUp and AutoCad and enjoys working on beautifully detailed residential and boutique commercial design projects. If you’re engaging our services for small hospitality projects, a new office fit out or a more complex residential design project you’ll be working with Emma & Marj to get the project done.
Amy Boardman
Junior Interior Designer
Amy keeps a cool head to ensure our business wheels keep on spinning! She takes the bull by the horns when it comes to tackling design and decorating jobs head on. Her role is to ensure all documentation we send out to our clients is 110% perfect and full of all the juicy info you’re going to want to know about the products we’ve picked out for your space. Amy grew up in rural NSW and has a strong appreciation for practicality when it comes to design and functionality. You’ll likely get to meet Amy at your first initial consultation with Emma.
Holly McKenzie
Studio Co-ordinator
Holly is the captain who steers the ship whilst we’re out and about meeting with clients and dreaming up the next amazing space for our clients to live/work in. Holly is the gal who’ll be liaising with you on all details such as product ordering, delivery queries and all things customer service. There’s no furniture dilemma Holly can’t fix!
Books
HOME follows the five elements through each room of the house showing you how to decorate on a budget without getting completely overwhelmed by the process.
KEEPING HOUSE demystifies the styling process. It walks you through how to style your bed in under 30 seconds, how to create a cheeseboard, tips to hang artwork, what you should spend on vs what you should save on, decorating the table for dinner parties and a couple of fun recipes and cocktails for good measure. (P.S. that’s my puppy dog Alfie on the cover!)
We’d love to work with you
We work with a range of clients: from magazine shoots, interior decorating, working with real estate agents, coaching other designers and working over the internet with far flung clients. We listen, we innovate, and use our expertise to deliver a result which is distinctly unique to you.
We’d love to work with you to bring your home to life and create a welcoming, authentic space.
Emma regularly shares her design insights with publications such as Domain.com.au (trends and video series), RealEstate.com.au (videos series), Adore Magazine (home tours, columnist), The Daily Telegraph (trends), The Life Creative (trends, blog posts), Inspired By This (home tours, trends), TheHome.com.au (styling and trends) and many more.
