Smartstyle Interiors

We saw how Phoebe had transformed a friend's house and so we asked her to do the same with ours. She listens to what you want and takes account of your style. She has brought our oast house to life. It was a very sad, boring, soulless house before she came and now is full of colour and style and brings our family joy and warmth every day. Phoebe started with the living room, dining room, kitchen, hall and our bedroom. Then we asked her to do the kids' rooms and the guest rooms. We would really recommend Phoebe and have done so to many friends. She is very talented in her craft.

We now have an absolutely fantastic home thanks to Phoebe! From boring beige to colourful and classy. Help with reconfiguring layout with rooms, lighting, soft furnishings and everything in between. Don’t hesitate and leave everything in her capable hands.

Phoebe manages to successfully combine creativeness and professionalism, so the result is a journey that ends up with having a house that truly reflects your own personality. She talks you through every phase, so you know what to expect and you know that she is acting in your best interest. After the first meeting, I started by giving her my Pinterest board, and that was a start of Our journey of bringing it all together. My house is a new build, so in one respect a blank canvas, but on the other hand quite restricted to the developers fixed offerings. Phoebe negotiated around all of this to come up with a wonderful scheme that bridged this difference. The house is colourful, and she knows instinctively where to position colour. I liked how she explained to me that pieces of furniture and everything else in the room are like a film. You need to have some stars, but you don’t want too many. She successfully achieves bringing in stars here and there and mixing this with items that just blend in well. During the planning stage, she builds models of what the room will look like, including Dropping in photographs of the pictures and furniture that you are bringing with you. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced knowing what a room would look like before it was done, Thereby eliminating the risk of disappointment. My bedroom is a cosy place, a lovely place to relax after a long day. The depth of colours are deeply relaxing. The bed is definitely one of the stars of the house! The dressing room combines the same theme that is in the bedroom, but also throws in a touch of Maria Carey’s dressing room. A pink sofa bed with a trunk to house the bedding makes the room luxurious but also doubles up as a comfortable spare room. Along all the back walls on the stairs are my walls of sunshine. On these walls there are square collections of pictures, that include things from the past, the present and ideals for the future. I chose to make a snug, that doubles up as a study. Impressive built in shelving sits behind my desk, and as I’m about to start a degree course, I’m looking forward to spending time studying in this room. Another star of the house is a pink patterned chair, It beautifully ties in many of the colours of the house As well as being extremely comfortable. Again a sofa bed was planned for this room, which means that I can now accommodate a lot of people. Above my desk is a copy of the original mood board, showing some of the pictures of my Pinterest together with aptly chosen items by Phoebe. This Serves as a great way to remember the wonderful process of bringing together a house that reflects where I’m at and what I wanted. In the study as well there is a framed David Bowie album, the one I had as a teenager. The colours work amazingly and remind me of my youth. Phoebe suggested getting the reverse of the album photo- copied to sit alongside the album. Throughout the house, there are many of her ideas such as this which just add to the finishing touches. Inside the cloakroom next to the snug, you’re transported into a Different place - It always surprises people as they open the door. And yet there is a huge thread of continuity with all the floors of the house. Head downstairs to the kitchen which is Open Plan with the dining room and a living area. Keeping the walls white Phoebe Recommended building in colour in the curtains and the furniture. So I have pink dining room chairs, Blue armchairs, and mustard sofa, a multicoloured rug, and all the colours reflected in the curtains. We also built a colourful magnet board, which houses my collection of magnets given to me by people who have been away or I have collected myself. I certainly have not seen any of the magnet board like it, and again really proves that this Truly reflects my personality. But it’s phoebes clever inventive thinking that turned into a very personal feature for me. Head back upstairs to the entrance hallway, and your find the amazing Mr perswall wallpaper. This was one of the last things to be sorted, and once in place the whole house felt extremely congruent. As you enter the house, you hit with colour, and colour carries on throughout. Phoebe is also extremely reliable, you always know where you are with her, and she works with you to ensure that the Amount that you spend is in keeping with what you are trying to achieve. She also is well supported by her excellent assistant Polly, She tenaciously pursues suppliers, and keeps you updated with delivery dates. The process has been just over a year. We worked together for around 6 months prior to moving into the house and then six months once in. The pre-planning resulted in the house looking like a home very quickly. Another way that the house feels like home quickly, is that Phoebe integrates your favourite items that you bring with you in an excellent way. For example, the picture of fish that look stunning above the kitchen sofa. Of course you can only plan a certain amount before you move in, as nothing beats actually getting into the house to see what else needs to be done. Phoebe works with you to spot where there are gaps. She keeps working till you’re fully satisfied that the house is as complete as you want it to be. And stay with the program, because be assured when you feel that things aren’t quite working how you wanted them to, you work with Phoebe and you get there, I promise. In summary then, working with smart style interiors has been a journey of discovery resulting in a colourful, comfortable unique, slightly crazy,Beautiful and comfortable house, that really reflects me, but I know I would not of come anywhere even close to achieving this without the help of the smartstyle team. Thank you.

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Phoebe over the last 4 years. I needed help with designing our home interiors after we had built our extension and was lacking the confidence and know how in where to begin the process. Phoebe is extremely professional and took time to understand us as a family and how we lived in our home. Phoebe was fantastic in designing her schemes around our existing furniture as well as sourcing amazing new pieces. Without her expertise we would never have sourced such unusual stunning pieces. She has an amazing sense of colour and texture and we love all the sumptuous textiles she has used in our home. I would have no hesitation in recommending her services. We initially engaged Phoebe to design our snug and in the end she worked her magic in our kitchen, hallway and master bedroom. We are extremely pleased with our beautiful, practical colourful and unique home.

Phoebe did an excellent job of transforming our Sitting Room into the room of our dreams. She managed the process thoroughly - from design through to implementation. We would certainly give her the highest recommendation.

Phoebe Oldrey is amazing! We were wary of engaging an interior designer but thank goodness we did. We had a sort of vague idea of what we wanted but found it hard to put into words. Phoebe was very good at teasing out of us what we liked and didn’t like and then coming up with innovative ideas. I enjoyed working with her. She has a great sense of colour and style and I learnt a lot. She not only helped us choose furniture and colours schemes, she also re-organised the layout in rooms so that they worked better, gave us advice on picture hanging and positioning and helped us change our perspective on what works and what doesn’t. Instead of the muddle and safe tatty blandness we lived in before we now have flow, vibrancy and colour. Phoebe is very professional and organised, always confirms ideas and arrangements in writing on the day. She has access to shops and products we would never have known about. She never gave up searching for exactly the right thing. We had fun shopping for new furniture on her recommendations. I always looked forward to our regular meeting as I knew she would have something unexpected to wow us that would also be just perfect. We initially asked her to help us sort out one room on the basis we would do the rest ourselves but we were so excited by her approach and ideas and the way she ‘got us’ that we asked her to help with the rest of the rooms downstairs. We love our new home and every time we walk through the front door our hearts lift. Thank you, Phoebe, you are the best.

We have worked closely with Phoebe over the last three years to turn our dream house into a reality and it has been a real pleasure. Our remit was very simple - help us avoid a house of magnolia! Phoebe worked with us in a truly collaborative way to help create a beautiful individual house, full of interesting touches and stand out ideas that really reflects our family and the way we live.

We found Smartstyle Interiors through an online agency and interviewed a couple of interior designers before choosing Phoebe. I think we thought she was the best fit for what we were hoping to achieve and 'got us' as a client. The whole process became fun with the exchange of ideas, guidance and sourcing tradespeople, to bring the project together. She expertly helped selecting fabrics and colours; researched paints and found items of loveliness for us. We are delighted with the results and feel we have achieved what we wanted with her help. Thank you Smartstyle Interiors!

Phoebe’s interior design input has had a transformational and entirely positive impact on our south-east London semi. Her open and cheerful approach enabled us to combine our own thoughts with hers with dramatic and wholly beneficial results. Not only does she have refreshingly creative ideas but she also has the product knowledge and contact with specialists and tradespeople to put them into practice. We have ended up with pleasing colours, fabrics and furniture which have combined to create a “wow” factor with which we are delighted and comfortable. We had a productive and enjoyable relationship throughout and would be happy to recommend Phoebe as a very professional, competent and imaginative interior designer who has a particular gift for picking up clues about client preferences and how best to develop and enhance this to produce a mutually acceptable and attractive outcome.

Phoebe from Smartstyle interiors was a great choice. We had quite strong ideas about what we wanted and she seemed to know instinctively what materials and fabrics would help us achieve our vision. She clearly had a vast range of experience and training, (not somebody who's done a nice job of their own house and decided "I could do this as a business".) her experience and professionalism gave us great peace of mind. I would not hesitate to recommend Smartstyle Interiors both for design and implementation. Thanks Phoebe

Phoebe did a great job designing our office here at Naylor Accountancy Services and she has made it a place we all love to come to work. It gives us the modern clean look that we want to emphasis our modern approach to accounting. Clients always comment on how nice and modern our office is and it is functional. We also use the office on our website, for PR and marketing so it has been the best thing we did to get Smartstyle in. I can highly recommend Smarstyle and Phoebe.

Phoebe from Smartstyle has been great in sorting out our dining room. It was a project I had been meaning to get round to for some time and following a recommendation I met Phoebe and she got things sorted! I felt the service was very professional and friendly and gave me the right mix of my original ideas and the Smartstyle touch.