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“Brenda persevered to find things to meet our requirements, and to solve potential problems and obstacles.” |
Brief: Refurbishment of a town house "Brenda worked within the brief and liaised well with contractors, which meant the job ran smoothly. Her particular strengths were to draw out our style, helping us reach decisions without influencing or imposing anything on us. She persevered to find things to meet our requirements, and to solve potential problems and obstacles. The result is a house that reflects our style and works with our family, and most importantly there is nothing that we would now change or have done differently. We love the end result and it is definitely our home." |
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“Brenda was a breath of fresh air
to work with; she was calm, incisive and understood the type of
family home we wanted to create and the practical issues we had
to take on board. Brenda helped us to work out an overall style
for the house and made us think about how we wanted to use different
rooms and what we needed to do to make them work.” |
Brief: Complete refurbishment
of a six-bedroom family town house over three floors
"Like many people we were very intimidated by
the thought of using an interior designer. Surely they would be
too chi-chi, too expensive and we'd only end up with someone else's
idea of a home.
Brenda was a breath of fresh air to work with; she was calm, incisive
and understood the type of family home we wanted to create and the
practical issues we had to take on board. Brenda helped us to work
out an overall style for the house and made us think about how we
wanted to use different rooms and what we needed to do to make them
work.
She was fantastic at sourcing different options and helping us
to decide what would work best so that we achieved a home with a
feel and style that was individual and personal to us. Brenda saved
us hours and hours of time and helped us to avoid more than one
costly mistake. She helped with everything, from putting together
colour schemes, sourcing suppliers and then ordering and following
up, whether it was a four metre sofa to a bathroom door hook! An
astonishing amount of design is still about how it looks rather
than how it works but Brenda was incredibly good at finding solutions
which both looked beautiful and worked brilliantly for a family
home."
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“Brenda's patience was crucial in providing me with the freedom to find and apply my own style; her sound advice was extremely helpful when narrowing down the often overwhelming multitude of options.” |
Brief: Complete interior design for a new-build family home
"I have been working with Brenda Gibson for over 1 year, since the project started when the house was a mere shell. Her professional advice stretched from semi-structural aspects such as layout of bathrooms, designs of mouldings, skirting boards and architraves, to finishing details including paint schemes, tiling, furniture and soft furnishings.
Brenda's advice was instrumental in pulling all the different aspects of the project together. Her expertise draws on years of experience in interior decorating/consulting as well as teaching, and is underlined by her wealth of specialist contacts for specific interior projects, including carpets, carpentry and soft furnishings. Her willingness to research all the different options and her steady and considered hand in making specific choices enabled a smooth completion of the vast project at hand.
Brenda's patience was crucial in providing me with the freedom to find and apply my own style; her sound advice was extremely helpful when narrowing down the often overwhelming multitude of options. She always highlighted all the various possibilities for any specific aspect of interior decorating and then carefully guided me towards decisions that best suited our taste and our needs. Altogether, Brenda Gibson's constant support and firm advice were encouraging, essential and indispensable for the completion of our project." |
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“...she can bring a sense of logic and magic in to her concepts by including something personal
to us yet inspirational ...” |
Brief: Create a family kitchen
"What I loved about working with Brenda, was
how she can bring a sense of logic and magic in to her concepts
by including something personal to us yet inspirational in use for
the space and functionality." |
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“Brenda has a real flair and feel for colour, and put together a sumptuous palette of autumn shades...” |
Brief: Refurbishment of a town house
"Brenda was an enormous help in narrowing
down and then creating a style for us that suited our lifestyles
as well as our personalities. She has a real flair and feel for
colour, and put together a sumptuous palette of autumn shades
that have enabled us to create a warm, welcoming feel to our home."
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“The look was just what we asked for to compliment our oriental furniture pieces but keep a modern clean look to our home.” |
Brief: Combine a contemporary interior with an oriental influence
"We love the space that Complete Interiors have created for us. The crisp, contemporary neutral palette of colour throughout our home works really well against some of the luxurious textures used for soft furnishings, floor coverings and curtains. The look was just what we asked for to compliment our oriental furniture pieces but keep a modern clean look to our home."
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“...there were various tricky decisions to be made. Brenda was brilliant! And my builder observed how competent, hard working and professional she is." |
Brief: Project manager for refurbishment and extensions
"Brenda Gibson stepped in for a month, when my project manager went to Australia, to project manage my house in Chelsea which needed complete refurbishment and building extensions. Brenda was landed in the deep end with various problems with party wall notices and neighbours. The house was being gutted and there were various tricky decisions to be made. Brenda was brilliant! And my builder observed how competent, hard working and professional she is.
I recommend her to anyone who needs a project manager."
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