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Dominique's Well-designed House boat

Bathroom piccies!

Right, so after lots of lovely enquiries into what our bathroom looks like,........ I thought I'd pop a couple of photos on here to settle everyones curiosities! Hope you like it!

Watch this space for the upload of our recording of us on the BBC!

Dominique's (MY) Narrow Boat

Our little home has been featured on this lovely Tiny House Blog! Take a look and let me know what you think!
Dominique's Narrow Boat

My new studio!!!

So, after many hours of scrubbing and scraping on hands and knees in order to release the floor from its mastic glue prison...... me and the lovely Donna Walker have finished our new studio! Yay!

We took on the lease with the room looking dark and dismal, with dodgy looking and stained carpet tiles, magnolia walls and weirdly sticky vertical blinds! yet now it is a bright, colourful and frankly happy space for lovely creatives to allow their clever brains to let loose!

We had a minuscule budget (as is always the case!), so our scavenging skills sprung into action and we started by re-upholstering 4 60's steel cantilever chairs which were a steal- (eeek,.. sorry couldn't resist!) at a mere 15 quid for all 4! Bargain!

Next up, we headed to the amazing Wimbledon Car Boot and begged and bartered for varying numbers of cabinets and shelving in all different shapes and sizes- some for free... some for an extortionate £3.50! ;)

We sanded them all down and then carted them off to the spray painters for a quick makeover! We then placed them in formations and mounted them on the wall to create our unique take on office shelving!

And with some desks, a stunning chair and light by Donna Walker Design and a few more up cycled items of ours.... the finished result! Come and join our little design community, large desk spaces with your very own shelving and all mod-cons included are going for a mini £46 per week in a fantastic location just up from Regents canal and down from Dalston Kingsland and Dalston Junction stations: 1-9 Downham Road, N1 5AA

We look forward to seeing you!!! xx

On the BBC!!!!!!!

We're on BBC One!!! Would you believe it!..... no?! Well here's the link to prove it Britain's Empty Homes Episode 13. Fast forward to 6 minutes 57 seconds in and there we are! Enjoy :)

SEB Reception counter design

Another design completed.....

.... Collaborating with my fellow designers at Burtt-Jones and Brewer, the design and construction of the main reception counter at SEB has been completed.

The challenge was to create a beautiful and seamless scandinavian inspired counter around the main body of the existing and rather cumbersome original desk.

The brief was to design a more user friendly counter for both the receptionists and the visitors, ensuring that the creation was both functional and fluid in it's construction and also it's aesthetic.

We're all very pleased with the outcome and so are SEB, so happy faces all round!

For further details visit Burtt-Jones and Brewer's website link and scroll to 'A Grand Reception'

The images above are of the visuals created for the client before construction and then the resulting design.

Primary school reading area come to life

Before I became an independent soul and decided to embark on the design world alone... I worked for a fantastic Architects practice in a little town in the South West of the Uk called NVB Architects. I headed up the Interior Design/ Architect division of the practice (me being the only Interior Designer amongst many Architects!) and was lucky enough to create designs for some very prestigious and exciting projects.

Obviously creating buildings from the ground up is a rather slow process and is the reason that this design has taken a while in the making..... however as they always say- 'good things come to those who wait'!

So, here we are. My input into the project was the design of the rather individual and playful library seating and storage pods being used to great effect by the lovely kids themselves! Always exciting to see happy customers!

The school on the receiving end of such a monumental new build was St Mary's Purton Primary School so feel free to check the beautiful building out in all its glory.

Fantastic outcome!

In the images you can see the original drawings that were created by me and then presented to the school, and then the completed designs.

It's me!!!!

One of over 500 photographs taken of people living, working and studying in the five Olympic host boroughs of Greenwich, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham and Waltham Forest.

Photography: Yujin Yun, Christina Katsantoni, Ewa Balazinska, SangDuck Bae, Paul Yeung & Amanda Shiu and Tomoko Kinoshita.
Screensaver programming: Thomas Daly and Stephen Pho.

Download the COUNTO12 screensaver clock or find out more at:
http://roadto2012.npg.org.uk/participation1/goldsmiths-reanimate

'to live is to leave traces’

Working on something new and exciting with Donna Walker, Katy Beinart, Talulah Mason and Adam Towner at Dead Dolls Club!!!

Watch this space for more news!!

Yummmy Meatballs!

Visited this beautiful refitted restaurant recently in Clerkenwell. It was an enchanting evening- not only because the design was fantastic but also because a blanket of snow had fallen on London making it that little extra magical!

The restaurant itself used to be an old chop house and the most amazing thing about the company Meatballs is that they've hardly touched the interior. They've left all of it's original features and simply added their understated and classic branding.

The food and drink were brilliant too!

Well worth a visit.