Review for Forrester Roberts Interior Design
We commissioned Forrester Roberts for a complete refurbishment of our 3 bedroom, 2 reception period house. This included extensive building works to create an open plan ground floor and to convert the existing living room into a home office.
Lindsey crafted the new floor plan which elegantly maximised all spaces in an old house. She offered beautiful design concepts for each room and sourced products such as lights, window dressings, furniture, etc. Although we came with our own strong opinions, she consistently offered a voice of reason, and a sound point of view. We found her to be really talented as a designer: she has a keen eye and the ability to very much listen to our expectations and aesthetic views, and then apply them superbly.
To give a couple of examples, our kitchen was originally a separate room, Lindsey produced drawings to help visualise the kitchen with a new open plan layout. Walls were removed and the small, middling kitchen has now been transformed into one of the highlights of the house. Lindsey was great at taking a simple idea from us (we wanted a cork board for the office) and then developing the idea... our office now has a beautiful cork wall with soft oak accessories throughout. She made an old Japanese screen which we'd had in our family into the centre piece of our newly redecorated master bedroom, to splendid effect.
She's also a lovely, warm person. We ended up spending a lot of time with her, and corresponding extensively. We have found a refurbishment of this magnitude to be an exhaustive (and exhausting!), intimate process, but we were very happy with our choice of designer who guided us in creating our family home. We walk around our house and it feels very much like our vision has come to life, but we also see Lindsey's touches everywhere, and, in our opinion, this is what the best designers do.
Lindsey crafted the new floor plan which elegantly maximised all spaces in an old house. She offered beautiful design concepts for each room and sourced products such as lights, window dressings, furniture, etc. Although we came with our own strong opinions, she consistently offered a voice of reason, and a sound point of view. We found her to be really talented as a designer: she has a keen eye and the ability to very much listen to our expectations and aesthetic views, and then apply them superbly.
To give a couple of examples, our kitchen was originally a separate room, Lindsey produced drawings to help visualise the kitchen with a new open plan layout. Walls were removed and the small, middling kitchen has now been transformed into one of the highlights of the house. Lindsey was great at taking a simple idea from us (we wanted a cork board for the office) and then developing the idea... our office now has a beautiful cork wall with soft oak accessories throughout. She made an old Japanese screen which we'd had in our family into the centre piece of our newly redecorated master bedroom, to splendid effect.
She's also a lovely, warm person. We ended up spending a lot of time with her, and corresponding extensively. We have found a refurbishment of this magnitude to be an exhaustive (and exhausting!), intimate process, but we were very happy with our choice of designer who guided us in creating our family home. We walk around our house and it feels very much like our vision has come to life, but we also see Lindsey's touches everywhere, and, in our opinion, this is what the best designers do.
Thank you for such a thoughtful review. Working with you two was an absolute pleasure... it was lovely to spend time with you, and I think we achieved a really nice result! I particularly love the home study with the new wall and the round window, and I'm so glad the ground floor was opened up to create the light and airy living space. I hope you and your lucky little ones will be very happy in your new home.
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