We engaged Debra to help us on our Grade II listed property. The brief was to remodel our ground and basement floors and to provide interior design for the new layouts. Previously our house had a small kitchen, a dining room and a reception room on the ground floor, and a basement which was divided into many rooms and mainly unused. Debra helped us redesign both floors in order to create two main reception rooms and a study on the ground floor, and a large open plan kitchen and dining space in the basement.
Debra skilfully took on board our feedback and transformed both floors into new elegant and family friendly spaces. The results of her work are stunning, the rooms look fabulous and are extremely well suited to our hectic family life. Debra can provide a range of options from cost effective through to luxurious. She did a fabulous job working with many existing pieces of furniture and reusing most of them in the new areas. This was a huge benefit when managing our refurbishment budget. Her unique list of contacts was invaluable! Debra brought in many trades for the refurbishment, all of whom surpassed expectations in terms of cost and quality of work.
Throughout the project nothing was too much trouble, she ensured our requirements and needs were met throughout and we are thrilled with the result!
Have you ever walked into a room and felt wow I love the way this makes me feel, but you never knew how to achieve that completely on your own? Debra has the answers to these magical transformations. She is an attentive listener so what you create is truly your own with her to break the code on how to achieve that feeling in your own home.
Beyond what she helps you create she is a dream to work with. Vivacious, detail oriented, organized and knowledgeable are the words I would use to describe her. She has the incredible ability to source fabrics, wallpaper and furniture to offer you many choices at various budgets. You can splurge where you want and save where you want easily under her guidance. She manages to do all this in a timely manner.
I would use her all over again and recommend her highly.
My wife and I are delighted to recommend Debra for interior design work. Quite simply, I don’t know where would be without her. I would never do this sort of work without her again. Doing up one’s house is a minefield. There are so many choices and such (expensive) mistakes to be made.
Debra just helps one toward wonderful choices and away from things one is likely to regret. She then works hard to get them in on budget. Her personal list of tradesmen is an unforeseen crucial part of the service. We are just thrilled with how it has all turned out and the responses we have had from family and friends. It’s very easy to live with someone else’s good taste!
Having lived in our old house for 35 years we were very anxious about making a move to a brand new apartment and getting it exactly as we wanted it.
Asking Debra to help and guide us with our project was the best thing we could have done.
From our very first meeting we were very impressed with her professionalism and style and felt we would easily be able to work with her. Someone who could make sense of our ideas, add her own and guide us through the maze of fabrics, furniture and designs that are available.
Debra was always very professional and extremely efficient throughout the project. We really enjoyed working with her as she held our hand, always listening and showing patience and we respected her assertiveness. She gave us as much time as we needed to make the right decisions, never pushing merely gently nudging!!
Even when things didn’t go quite to plan Debra was there to sort it out immediately with little fuss and bother.
Debra was an absolute pleasure to work with. She has helped create our new home that we are so delighted with and hope to enjoy for many years to come.
We couldn’t have done it without her and cannot recommend Debra more highly.
It was a pleasure working with Debra and DK interiors.
This is the second project I have worked with them on and it was once again a seamless and enjoyable collaboration.
I am delighted with the results of this major renovation . Debra is a delight to work with and interpreted what I wanted with professionalism, style and humour!
Debra undertook the full refurbishment of our two bedroomed flat, including new kitchen and two new bathrooms, the brief being to update and appeal to a wide range of possible tenants.
She has provided a complete service, introducing us to suppliers and contractors, providing product choices for selection, and overseeing the entire project, including final accessories.
We are delighted with the result; a contemporary kitchen in neutral shades and a subtle grey colour scheme throughout the flat, with white and black furniture giving a calm and comfortable feel. We have been impressed by Debra's commitment to the whole project, and to the level of detail throughout, which shows in the finish and the coordinated elements from room to room. We have decided to enjoy it for a little while ourselves before looking for tenants
We moved from our traditional family home of 25 years, to a new-build modern apartment and asked Debra to help us with the design of the internal furnishings.
From the very start I felt Debra understood exactly what we wanted to achieve. She went out of her way to make herself available and always to oversee the project.
We have a home that reflects our style and taste with guidance from Debra, but at no time did she push forward her own views.
Debra has fantastic connections with a wide range of companies and trades and offered a complete range of places from which to choose our furnishings. She took all the hard work from our shoulders and we are totally delighted with the result.
We have found her a total pleasure to work with and she has shown patience and consideration for us at all times. I now wouldn’t dream of making a decision without consulting her first!
We have no hesitation in highly recommending her work and have already done so.
We commissioned Debra to design a complete interior package for a house that we were building in Totteridge.
This involved all aspects of interior design from bathrooms to the kitchen, to each individual habitable room with advice and sourcing of fabrics, paint and colour schemes and the purchase of furniture and the design and sourcing of joinery.
This was a substantial project which started as a blank canvas and the remit was to produce a contemporary design, one that flowed through the whole house much of which is open plan, but one that is warm and inviting.
Debra is a dream to work with who not only came up with a magnificent design but who is hugely talented and efficient in all respects. What we have is the house that we have always wanted and one that we hope to enjoy for many years to come.
We cannot recommend Debra more highly both as a wonderful person to work with and as an interior designer par excellence.
My wife and I are delighted to recommend Debra for interior design work. Quite simply, I don’t know where would be without her. I would never do this sort of work without her again. Doing up one’s house is a minefield. There are so many choices and such (expensive) mistakes to be made.
Debra just helps one toward wonderful choices and away from things one is likely to regret. She then works hard to get them in on budget. Her personal list of tradesmen is an unforeseen crucial part of the service. We are just thrilled with how it has all turned out and the responses we have had from family and friends. It’s very easy to live with someone else’s good taste!
Working with Debra was a pleasure from start to finish. Her depth of product knowledge is so extensive that there wasn't one question she couldn't answer whether about a range of products or a method of achieving a certain look.
Debra showed me just enough options so that I felt central to the decision-making process, but never overwhelmed. She understood our desire to use many of our existing pieces and skilfully made them work in the context of new furnishings with an overall design concept in mind.
Debra worked extremely well with our Architect and Builder and she often took control of workflow when we reached design impasses. In the end, all professionals working on the job respected each other and worked well together which is a reflection of not only Debra’s easy-going personality but also her assertiveness. Debra understood our desire to spend selectively and offered sensible and effective ways to cut costs whenever possible. She also negotiated with suppliers on our behalf, which helped control costs.
We are so delighted with the end result and are thoroughly enjoying spending time in our home. I look forward to doing another project with Debra again soon!