Julia Alexander

Julia has helped me with 3 projects over the last 4 years in a variety of settings, inner city London town house, rural barn conversion in Somerset , and currently a house in Sydney Australia. Julia has an amazing ability to understand my requirements, be practical, stylish and economical when required. Julia is a pleasure to work with - we have run projects through virtual meetings, shopping trips, and face to face site meetings when required. She provides visual inspiration for projects via mood boards, social media links and is very knowledgeable of online and local interior decor resources and shops all over the world catering to a variety of budget levels. Julia is always quick to respond to my many questions and she is incredibly patient too! I cannot recommend her enough.

Julia was invaluable on two projects she has designed with us. Our home has Julia's influence and style all across it from the bedrooms, lounges, hallways, offices - All look fabulous. Julie's skill is in understanding budgets, balancing that with our own style, likes and dislikes all with real patience and empathy. Julia sourced great options for us to look at, such useful tips on colour combinations, and everything from lighting to rugs, wallpaper to cushions, every detail carefully curated to bring every room to life and create character. Crucially Julia challenged us to look and be brave in choices we wouldn't have made without her support. Always there to help with personal shopping trips, great contacts in all areas, the result is a home that looks contemporary, warm and stylish! Julia also helped us on a commercial mews house renovation, bringing real value to key areas like bathrooms, hallways even roof terraces. The fine detail on fittings, tiles, use of flooring, blinds, all helped to create the perfect balance of light and space that allowed us to maximise top rental prices when we went to market. We would 100% recommend Julia and view her advice as an essential part to any interior design conversation.

Julia helped us to choose colours in our main living areas and the master bedroom, as well as advised on what soft furnishings to consider. She sent brilliant examples of options that were true to our taste and worked really well in the space intended as well as not being from the usual high street stores so had some individuality to them. She was quick to respond, always had numerous ideas and was creative in her thinking so often thought of things that would never have occurred to us. She was also able to get discounts for us on various things, such as paint, which we were very grateful for. We felt in very safe hands with Julia and would recommend her (and use her again) without hesitation.

Julia is very easy to work with and completely client focused. Having worked with her before I knew I wanted her to help me design our new bedroom. We had an on-site consultation and straight away she understood my style and what I wanted. She gave me some great ideas and suggestions to update the room during the consultation e.g. paint colour, a feature wall, carpet, curtains, cushions and pictures all pulled together on a mood board. She shared all the links so I could go ahead and start buying and I was pleased to find many budget options so it didn’t break the bank. I can’t wait for the decorators to finish so that I can add all the finishing touches Julia suggested. Thank you Julia!

We hired Julia to help us transform an empty rental into a cosy home before the arrival of our new baby. We were delighted with her approach every step of the way. She was always on hand sending us advice & links to great ideas she had. She is professional but also warm and engaging. She really took our project to heart sending us on ideas she had been thinking of, often at weekends & evenings. We always received prompt replies to any of our questions. Julia worked with us, helping to find out our style & sometimes pushed us to take risks which we were glad of in the end. We had a strict timeline & budget which Julia had no problems working with.. The end result is fantastic.. We would highly recommend Julia.

I hired Julia to help my with my home and as soon as we began discussing my requirements I felt like she understood what I was looking for. I was struggling to find a 'style' that worked through my home and needed help with light, colours and general advice to give my home a consistent style throughout, adding warmth using textures and accessories, and finding ways to use space in a practical way. Since Julia came over I feel a weight has been lifted, and now I know what to look for on my house shopping days out! Julia provided me with images, storage solutions etc and also gave me names on suppliers, shops and online retailers where I can purchase numerous things for the home. I was also working to a budget, and many of the retailers she gave were not going to break my bank! I highly recommend Julia, she is very personable, honest and talented.

I have worked with Julia on several occasions photographing the end of results of a number of her projects in London. I always look forward to working with Julia as her professionalism, organisation, punctuality and quality of work is second to none. Her attention to detail and perfectionism produces some stunning results and makes my job as a photographer very enjoyable as each project provides interesting, fun, and original subject matter. She is passionate about her work and I cannot recommend her highly enough.

Julia staged our 3 bedroom property with a view to maximise value as we put it on the market. She started by going through the property in detail room by room and identifying the changes we'd make. She recommended vendors such as painters, cleaners, removal companies etc and gave us a list of affordable dressings to finish the staging. She was a pleasure to work with, very contactable throughout and her communication was fantastic. After we made her changes, Julia came and "staged" the property. The whole process happened in record time, with the only hold ups being on our side. We invested around 0.5% of the value of the property into the staging. We had 4 valuations before hiring Julia all consistent at the same value. We had 4 valuations after the staging, all consistent at 10% higher in value. We have just accepted an offer on the property at the higher valuation. We can't thank Julia enough for helping us maximise the value of our property and making the process so enjoyable! It looks so good, we wanted to stay! We will be asking Julia on board again when we move house. We couldn't be more pleased with her contribution!

I was so impressed with Julia when I attended an excellent interior design course she ran, that I asked her to provide me with a consultation for my building project at home. Julia was so helpful in the consultation; she had excellent ideas, put lots of effort in, and was confident without being pushy. She helped me feel much calmer about my project, and after the consultation she went out of her way to contact me with further thoughts and suggestions. She was altogether lovely to work with!"

"Julia was a breath of fresh air and it was a pleasure working with her from the first meeting through to the final handover. We have since engaged Julia on other projects We feel that we’ve met someone who is consummately professional, talented, patient, and incredibly hard-working and committed to seeing the project through. Julia shared her ideas, and intuitively sensed what we liked and disliked. Her initial presentation was flawless. She presents her ideas clearly, and listens carefully to what we have to say. The experience of working with her has been exciting, pleasant and her attention to detail has been consistent throughout the process. We look forward to working with her again and would recommend her unreservedly to anyone looking for a stylist or interior designer / decorator."