Why Hiring an Interior Designer Can Transform Your Living Space
As you walk into the world of design - it truely opens into a whole other cavernous and vast realm. There is so much ‘behind the curtain’ holding everything together - a thread to be pulled and a seemingly never ending string of effects made from a single decision.
Interior designers spend thousands of hours becoming familiar with the aspects and areas of design in order to ‘cross pollinate’ ideas - to drawn from a well of oversight and experience - learning from problems and applying them in new spaces and in new ways. They apply a synthesis of awareness into your space, and deliver back to you the echo of your reflection - the things about yourself you couldn’t even see. The best interiors are a dance between technical skill and emotional intelligence.
Interior Designers possess a unique set of skills - often crossing the left and right brain hemispheres - linear, technical and organised - while tapping into problem solving, creativity and adaptability.
Sunbaker Studio Living Room Render: Glamour Brutale | Client: Max, Creative Writer and Fashion Influencer
Practical Talents (The Technical Foundation)
Space Planning: Strategically arranging layouts for flow, function, and comfort.
Lighting Design: Layering light sources for both beauty and practicality.
Scale and Proportion Awareness: Choosing pieces that fit perfectly in the room's dimensions.
Problem-Solving: Creatively working around architectural challenges, budgets, and limitations.
Knowledge of Trends (and Timelessness): Balancing current styles with longevity.
Sourcing Unique Pieces: Finding high-quality, well-made furnishings and decor.
Attention to Detail: Caring about small elements like hardware, stitching, or lighting angles.
Project Management: Overseeing timelines, deliveries, installations, and contractors.
Budget Balancing: Making smart investment decisions for clients.
Sustainability Awareness: Choosing eco-friendly materials and practices where possible.
Creative & Intuitive Talents (The Soul of the Space)
Colour Theory Knowledge: Understanding how color affects mood, energy, and cohesion.
Material and Texture Mixing: Layering surfaces to create depth, richness, and tactility.
Styling and Layering: Adding art, textiles, greenery, and personal touches that bring life.
Mood and Atmosphere Creation: Designing for emotional resonance — making a space feel a certain way.
Personalisation: Drawing out a client’s true style and soul and translating it into the environment.
Emotional Intelligence: Listening deeply and intuitively understanding a client’s hidden desires and needs.
Holistic Interior Design is on the rise in 2025 - adding in a further layer of assessment. Human Design Integration enables us to assess a person’s unique energetic blueprint - further supporting them very specifically on a soul level with what they need. Some of those variations include a ‘cave-like’ environment or a ‘mountain-like’ environment. A person’s energetic blueprint includes their ideal environment and this can be considered in order to support a successful life. Some homes are ideally set up for rest only, while others are better off having activity built into the home - a ‘passive’ or an ‘active’ environment.
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice that involves arranging buildings, objects, and spaces to harmonise individuals with their environment and promote well-being, fortune, and prosperity. It aims to create a balance and optimise the flow of energy (Chi) in a space, leading to a more peaceful and fulfilling environment.
The practices and factors can be included when working with Sunbaker Studio - supporting not only an aesthetically beautiful and practically functional home or creative work space - but also includes optimised arrangements to ensure flowing chi and personalised energetic alignment. Occasionally these practices provide something which a traditional/ common interior design approach may not ‘agree with’. This is where Holistic Interior Design provides context and deeper and more meaningful synthesis to designs.
Sunbaker Studio Living Room Render: Sunset mountain views, mixed materials provide play and variety while creating a future retro space for intimate socialising, and ‘social media’ moments. Brutalism meets bohemian-eclectic.
Interior Designers utilise incredible technical programs which enable a client to envision their spaces before approving the final design. Designer and client can walk through the materials and textures, the way the space is used and enjoyed - enabling a true collaboration, ensuring all needs are met. A Holistic Designer enables dreams to become reality. Sunbaker Studio is confident to make bold choices, and thrives where there is a thirst and appreciation for drama and excitement.
Neurodivergent-friendly spaces
Sunbaker Studio works with their own sensory sensitivity to relate with ADHD and neurodivergent folks. This ‘spider-mind’, ‘squiggly-brain’ gift enables our studio to work on our growing edges and take design concepts into new and exciting places.
Spaces for neurodiverse folks can look like low stimulus environments - but calming spaces don’t have to be boring. A strong, confidently articulated design can be interesting and inspiring, while also connecting to an individual’s sensory needs. I strongly believe that holistic and energetically aligned spaces - do not need to be only beige, brown and white. There can be vibrancy and injections of pattern and movement - the coherency of frequency can be woven in many ways.
Sunbaker Studio Living Room Render: A multi-functional apartment suited to working from home, social media blogging, reading and taking in the view, entertaining friends for dinner or a film on the projector, cooking a meal and connecting with guests across a semi division of greenery - enabling a comfortable flow of privacy or communication.
Sunbaker Studio specialises in creating mindful living environments which support our clients to live exciting and fulfilling lives. We consider not only comfort and style - but also how a space is used and enjoyed. Through a carefully considered process we ensure the maximum attention to sourcing sustainable materials and furnishings from local makers where possible - of the highest quality possible. We help our clients make great investments which offer endless returns in usability and enjoyment.
Our unique holistic approach is fresh to the modern age. We see the way of the future and are years ahead of the general perception.
Hiring an interior designer can transform your living space in ways both profound and subtle. It’s what you see visually, and also what is felt and sensed beyond the superficial layers. It’s the ease that organisation and flow brings - the balance of elements which support financial and emotional flow. It’s the inspiration that strikes when you feel secure and supported to create.
Sunbaker Studio Living Room Concept Board: A unique arrangement of designer furnishings which creates an ultra stylish and sleek vibe | Parisian boho eclectic meets modern brutalist
Final words: The process of hiring a designer can illuminate and educate you along the way - so that if you choose, you can adopt the principals in others areas of your life and gain skills to implement again and again.
Interior Designers will give you the practical, technical, creative and emotional intelligence to transform your home into the perfect sanctuary to meet your needs - today and into the future. A legacy for your family.
Get in touch with Sunbaker Studio today - meet with Natalie, and chat on a pressure free discovery call.
Take care, have a beautiful day. X
