Residential interior design and decorating
From apartment reworks and estate new builds to full renovations of established family homes, the studio takes residential projects of every scale, and Wanda is personally on every one of them.
Whether you are building a new home, planning a renovation, or looking to refresh what you already have, Interiors by Wanda Michelle covers the full residential brief. That splits naturally into two kinds of work, and most clients need some of both.
Interior design is the structural half: layout, light, services, joinery and the decisions that are cheap on a drawing and expensive on site. Decorating and decor is the half that makes a finished space feel like somebody lives there: furniture, fabric, art, lighting and the styling that ties it together.
Every project starts with a no-obligation consultation with Wanda Michelle, where scope, timelines, budget and working model are agreed before anything is designed or ordered.
Residential interior design
Design work begins with how you actually use a house rather than how the plan says you should. Where a wall comes down, where the light falls at the end of the day, how storage disappears into joinery instead of standing in the room, and where the services have to be before the screed goes in.
On a new build the studio is best brought in at conceptual stage, alongside your architect and builder. Socket positions, lighting circuits, ceiling bulkheads and joinery recesses resolved on the drawing cost a fraction of what they cost as a retrofit, and the finished house reads as one decision rather than a sequence of corrections.
On a renovation the work is usually about reworking a plan drawn for a different era of family life without stripping out the proportions and detail that made the house worth buying in the first place.
- New builds
- Involved from conceptual stage, working alongside your architect and builder.
- Renovations
- Reworking an existing plan so the layout finally suits how you live.
- Space planning
- Part of every project here, not a service sold on its own.
Residential decorating and decor
Decorating is where a correctly designed house stops feeling like a showhouse. Furniture selected and scaled to the room, fabric and texture layered so the space is comfortable rather than merely photogenic, art and accessories placed with intent, and lighting warmed down to something you would actually sit in.
This work can follow a full design project or stand on its own. Plenty of clients come with a house whose bones are fine and whose rooms have never quite worked, and the fix is furniture scale, a reworked lighting plan and a palette that holds together across the whole floor rather than room by room.
Where the studio handles procurement, that covers sourcing, custom pieces drawn to the room, supplier coordination and installation day itself, so the house is finished rather than delivered in boxes.
- Furniture and scale
- Bespoke pieces drawn to the room where standard sizing reads underweight.
- Palette and fabric
- A scheme that holds across the whole floor, not one room at a time.
- Styling and install
- Art, accessories and the final placement, handled on installation day.
Rooms from the portfolio
Common questions
- Do you take on single rooms or only whole houses?
- Both. Projects run from a single room refresh and apartment reworks through to full renovations, large luxury residences and bespoke new builds. Scope is agreed at the first consultation before any design work begins.
- Can I book decorating without a full design project?
- Yes. Decorating and decor is offered on its own, and it is a common brief where the architecture already works and the rooms have simply never come together. Furniture scale, lighting and palette usually do most of the work.
- At what stage of a new build should we bring you in?
- As early as conceptual stage, alongside your architect and builder. Decisions about layout, light, storage and services are far cheaper to get right on paper than to correct on site.
- Do you supply furniture, or only specify it?
- Both are possible. The studio specifies materials, joinery, lighting and fittings, and can handle procurement and supplier coordination through to installation day, or hand a specification to your own team.
- Do you design kitchens and bathrooms?
- Yes, as part of a wider project. Kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, living areas and bars are all designed within a residential brief. The studio does not take on a standalone kitchen or bathroom as a job on its own.
- How do you charge for a residential project?
- The working model is agreed up front, at the no-obligation first consultation with Wanda Michelle, alongside scope, timelines and budget. Nothing is designed or ordered before that is clear.
Also part of the studio
Start with a conversation about the space.
A no-obligation consultation with Wanda Michelle. We walk through scope, timelines and budget before anything is designed.