CasaNora

From the moment we were warmly welcomed in to CasaNora’s lovely showroom in Putney, we knew we had made the right choice for our new kitchen/dining space. We loved Nora’s personal approach and the style and quality of everything in the showroom. We also left that first meeting bursting with ideas and with some important practical insight into design options. Nora subsequently took time to get to know us - all of us as a family - and therefore really understood what was important to us. Her designs were excellent from the start, but she happily and patiently worked with us, her suppliers and our (also excellent) builders and architect to refine and produce a final design that exceeded our expectations. Fundamentally, Nora is passionate about what she does and truly went the extra mile to give us the most wonderful new space. She manages a great balance of practical application and fabulous design - our new kitchen/dining space looks amazing whilst being a completely functional space which serves our family and gives us lots of options for entertaining. I smile every time I walk in to it and suspect I will do for years to come!

I can highly recommend using CasaNora for any interior design work, especially kitchen and bathroom refurbishments. Nora is a very experienced interior designer, with exceptional attention to detail and is an absolute pleasure to work with.

Nora is by far the best person I have worked with when renovating. She has a great sense of design. She pays attention to the details, and checks to make sure you are confident in your decision before moving forward. She offers help outside the scope of her work. I can't recommend her enough.

Nora did an amazing job with my kitchen. From her very first visit she offered friendly, helpful and informative advice. My kitchen constantly offered up challenges but Nora and her team had quick and effective solutions at each step of the way. I highly recommend Nora for her expertise and creative flair as well as her pragmatic style.

Nora did an amazing job on our kitchen - the kitchen was very old and my husband is quite a heavy duty cook. The kitchen needed to be completely redone, floors and walls included. The work was very quick and the space is completely transformed - we hadn't realised how much space we weren't utilising. Nora was clear, thoughtful and extremely patient every step of the way and we couldn't be happier with the outcome. Thank you Nora for all of your hard work!

We contacted Nora following seeing the work she did for our neighbors, as we were amazed with the outcome. And we thought she would be the right person to get our kitchen renovated straight after meeting her in person. Nora is very attentive and professional, and has great experiences with re- designing kitchen and gave us a whole new idea of how it could be renovated which we then took on board and love it ! She and her builder team work very well together , and delivered the project as planned and within expected timeline, without too much disruption of our life as renovation could be very stressful! The work is of high quality and we are very happy with it. The house look very much like how it was designed and her openness to give us idea on e.g colours and furnitures def a bonus point. We would highly recommend Nora! Thank you for your hard work!

After struggling to find the right solution with other kitchen companies and designers, we discovered Nora—and we're so glad we did. From the moment we met her, she was charming, enthusiastic, and attentive. She quickly offered thoughtful suggestions while respecting our vision and style, creating an environment of collaboration that put us at ease. Nora provided clear pricing options upfront, and the pros and cons of different units, layouts, and appliances were explained thoroughly. We modified the original design a couple of times, and throughout the process, Nora ensured that everything was transparent—no hidden costs, just honest guidance. Her warmth and professionalism shone through in every interaction. We had several appointments and stayed in constant communication to keep things on track. When it came time for installation, everything went flawlessly. The fitters were exceptional—detailed, efficient, and delivering a fantastic finish. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Nora for a kitchen renovation. And as a bonus, she makes great coffee!

Nora did a great job in designing and supplying my new kitchen. She was professional, knowledgeable and admirably patient with me as I digested all the detail. And we are very pleased with the end result.

My husband and I are extremely satisfied clients of CasaNora. We contacted Nora in early 2023 to redesign our kitchen. She was extremely professional in her assessment of our space including detailed measurements and photos and then designed a new kitchen that optimised the unusal space of our kitchen. She is a good listener, has good ideas, is quick to respond, and has very good taste. The project started in April and finished in July. The builders, electricians, and painters were all very professional and did high quality work. Nora sources from abroad so there were some delays in getting some of the units but she was very much on top of the suppliers and sent a few items back that were faulty. Her follow up post completion of the project was also very good as there were a number of installation issues that cropped up and she responded very quickly to resovle the situation. Finally, it was a real pleasure working with Nora. She is cheerful, responds quickly to all messages, is very quick to solve problems or come up with ideas and solutions and her team is easy to work with. We will be using her in the future to redo our bathrooms.

We loved working with Nora for the renovation of multiple rooms in our house, including a kitchen and bathroom. Nora has great attention to detail and we trusted her and her team fully. Nothing was too much of a problem. We would highly recommend working with Nora and her team.

The challenge I’ve set myself for this review is to keep it relatively brief as I could go on all day about how wonderful Nora is - if you can afford the investment to enhance your house I urge you to do it as you will reap the benefits every day when you delight in the transformation! As this was the second project with Nora we had no nerves about how it would go. And whereas the first one was “just” the kitchen, this time there was barely another room in the house that was left untouched (only our downstairs bathroom, a likely candidate for Project 3.) We also understood exactly what we would be getting as we knew by now that the computer visualisations would be exactly how it would be in real life and of course that the collaborative process would be a lot of fun and an iterative journey. It always felt as if Nora was inspiring us and helping us with ideas but never that she was trying to force her vision onto us. She listened to what was important to us and always found a way to meet our specifics (my vision of a little steam room built into the shower room and music coming through wifi speakers built into the lights became a reality). Now it feels as if every inch of the house has got a use. This was a massive project given that we were swapping a mid-floor bathroom and a top floor bedroom as well as a lot of other things. Communication was key during the 10 or so weeks of the build (during which we moved out) and Nora set up a WhatsApp group with updates at a cadence that worked for all of us, and plenty of photos to keep up to date with the transformation. Similarly, Nora always made the costings really clear and always gave us options to save money if we didn’t want to go top of the range on everything. In real life things don’t always go perfectly but it’s the way that both partners in this relationship deal with those moments that is important. The team, eager to be ready for our return, did a bit of a rush job on the wallpapering of one wall and once you lived with it you could see it wasn’t quite right. Nora was quick to rectify the situation with no quibbling. Any major project is going to have a list of snagging here and there and these were all dealt with efficiently once we’d lived with everything for a few weeks. Any interactions we had with the team (we were absent mostly) were always really positive, they were courteous and also considerate in terms of how they left everything tidy at the end of a working day. The end result was spectacular and I wake up every day thinking how lucky I am that I can live in a house like this. Don’t hesitate to work with Nora and make your dreams come true. :)

Nora was recommended to us by the builder whom we had engaged to do our renovation this year. We visited her showroom and she came to see us before the work started. We felt she really understood what we wanted to achieve in our home while introducing us to wider possibilities. Nora advised on the style of kitchen, worktops, paint colours, tiles and all fittings. She kept in close touch with ourselves as well as the kitchen fitters, our builder and his team to ensure everything ran smoothly, to plan and on time. She ordered all the appliances and tiles etc as well as all the kitchen fittings and worktops and everything was stored in her warehouse ready for delivery as required. She would always go the extra mile to ensure we would have beautiful as well as functional rooms and that the final finish was the very best it could be. She has a very fine eye for detail and design and we have been absolutely delighted with the final results. The Project: We wanted to open up the downstairs area at the back of the house to create a more open living area with a new kitchen, a utility room and a ground floor cloakroom with shower. Keeping within the footprint of the house was important to us. Nora advised on all aspects and worked closely with ourselves as well as with the builder to ensure measurements were accurate and that his team could deliver her recommendations.