We hired Born & Bred to design our four bedroom home on a tight timeframe of three months (new baby on way). Lisa did an incredible job working at a fast pace, to understand our style and source the necessary pieces to execute on our vision for the house. Lisa is a pleasure to work with, our personalities jived and she gets things done. It made decorating the house that much easier.

Lisa excelled at the following points, which made our experience great.

1) Professionalism - Above all, Lisa is a true professional and I believe this is the core to a positive working relationship. She showed up to meetings on time, met deadlines, kept us informed of deliveries, and problem solved any issues that came up (without making us feel like it was an issue).

We also appreciated that she would be understanding (and didn’t take it personally!) when we didn’t like some of the items she presented to us. Designers can sometimes be too pushy when it’s not your taste, but instead, she would listen to our feedback, and come back with an alternative appropriate solution that worked for us.

2) Presented a Range of Price Options - I liked that Lisa always had various pricing options for similar items. She never assumed our price range for an item and was mindful in presenting ways we could save money. She also would bargain hunt and spontaneously send us items she would see on sale while out.

3) Designed bespoke furniture - I wanted an upholstered ottoman for our family room which I saw online at Restoration Hardware (RH not sold in the UK). She scoped the design and had it custom made, for less than what it would have cost to buy it. She also advised us to go with a bigger size to fit our room (which I could not see working) and now its our favorite piece we purchased. Its perfect material & size for for our kids!

4) Kids Rooms - My kids rooms are impeccable, from wallpaper, to beds to decorative items that pull it all together. She specializes in this area so if you're looking for kids / family space design, Born & Bred does a fantastic job.

5) Contract Work - The external contractors she referred were excellent. Very happy with the quality and time of the work completed.

Overall, highly recommend to hire!

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NOTTING HILL

London

We worked with Lisa on the design for an existing structural build. She helped fully design our living spaces and daughter’s room and we love the final result!

We’d highly recommend Lisa!

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CROUCH END
London

Lisa has been brilliant to work with. We knew what we liked but not how to recreate it on a budget and in our own home. Lisa was able to bridge the gap from the idea on the tip of my brain to a coherent design and shopping list.

She very much incorporated our ideas and special requirements into two beautifully designed bathrooms. The service provided was exactly what we needed in that she was able to craft a design around the hodge podge of items that we already owned to create something beautiful, stylish and quite timeless (in less than 2 weeks!). We were given choices between very expensive and cheaper items so that we could stretch or constrain our budget as required.

We are looking forward to Lisa helping us with the rest of the ground floor as our renovation progresses.

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BRIXTON
London

We hired Lisa after renovating our new house when our focus had been with an arcitect on structurally having the correct layout. We felt at the end, the house had little personality. All the bedrooms were the same colour and the kitchen felt very clinical. Lisa changed all of that by redecorating the children’s bedrooms using their interests whilst remaining practical at all times. Next was the rather cluttered master bedroom where she converted a small bedroom in the eaves to create a beautiful dressing room so that we could remove a wardrobe and chest of drawers. The end result was a luxurious, spacious bedroom. Where the kitchen seemed rather clinical, she created a gallery wall and added a rug to soften it a little. Finally in the playroom she added a gallery wall of framed pieces of the children’s art! We are beyond delighted with the end result and love spending time at home now. Lisa is lovely and was really fantastic to work with, she made the whole experience super easy and really invested a lot of her time to help deliver the perfect result including dressing all of the rooms (I came home to find her hoovering one day!) I cannot recommend her highly enough!

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KENSAL RISE
London

Lisa is an absolute professional. She designed a playroom, living room, family room, snug and 3 child bedrooms for us. Easy to work with, tons of great ideas, mixes family friendly design with high-end feel, always transparent and on-time. We’ve worked with many designers over the years but rarely have we enjoyed having someone part of our home like we did with Lisa. We were sad when the project ended!

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ST JOHNS WOOD
London

Lisa was amazing! She has helped us to completely transform our house and we are thrilled with the results. We instantly warmed to her from her first visit and were really excited by her ideas! She has provided us with some great, family friendly spaces including a living room, hallway and stairwell area, snug tv room and office. The gallery wall going up the stairs is perfect! We would love to have her back to do more rooms soon!

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FINSBURY PARK
London

Cannot recommend Lisa highly enough! She designed 2 children’s bedrooms and an amazing home office/loft space for us. Lisa was punctual, thoughtful and very creative. She was also fantastic at taking our slightly crazy conceptual ideas and turning them into reality paying close attention to details we would never have thought of.

The quality of all of her work was superb and we are so happy with the result. Looking forward to embarking on our next project with Lisa!

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KENSAL GREEN
London

Working with Lisa really was a great experience. She took the time to understand what it was we wanted to accomplish with our home, rather than trying to impose a pre-determined blueprint. Lisa’s professionalism gave us the confidence to move away from a very safe white interior to a bold and contemporary colour and pattern palette. She took in to account our love of design classics and coordinated an interior around this. Lisa was always on hand to discuss any ideas or issues as they arose and provided very clear guidelines to allow the tradesmen to deliver the final product. We have already asked Lisa to help us with another part of our home and would not hesitate in recommending her interior design service.

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UPMINSTER
Essex

I couldn’t recommend Lisa highly enough. She is the consummate professional, who takes the time to listen and really understand the brief and how a house must work. We are a busy family of 6. We decided to press ahead with major building works - renovation/downstairs extension - in the midst of the lockdown/homeschool/homeworking period. It was in the midst of this work that I contacted Lisa for help. My mind was whirring with ideas and colour preferences but we struggled to make choices. Lisa took our muddled bunch of ideas and managed to create the most perfect look and feel to our family home. Lisa’s ideas are both accessible and affordable. There were some truly beautiful touches for example sourcing the most wonderful prints for our twin girls bedroom.

Towards the end of our build I became ill myself and was away from home. Lisa was amazing she stepped in to project manage the build and oversee all aspects of the interior design phase.

I knew we were in safe hands but our beautiful family home far exceeds our expectations. Lisa it has been a pleasure to work with you.

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HARROW ON THE HILL
London

We moved into our house 5 years ago and painted most of it grey or blue, with a view to making more exciting interiors choices further down the line. Lisa has helped make our home into a warm, calm, gorgeous space, which we are so thrilled about. She is brilliant at knowing what kids need (and playing with them - mine adore her!) and she has made some beautiful yet practical changes to their rooms and our communal spaces. She has exceptional taste and a great eye, so much so that I now can’t make any interiors decisions without her!!

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DARTMOUTH PARK
London