FROM THE STUDIO


Design ideas, insight & project stories

Renovation guides, interior trend reports, design tips and behind-the-scenes project stories from the Emma Brown Design studio in Palmerston North.

Hot Takes as Women in Design
Samuel Whitburn Samuel Whitburn

Hot Takes as Women in Design

We have opinions.

Strong ones.

The kind that get raised at design reviews, debated over coffee, and occasionally scrawled on sticky notes that end up on the studio wall.

As Women who got into this industry because we genuinely believe that the spaces people live in have the power to change how they feel about their lives. Not just aesthetically. Emotionally. The right room can make you braver, softer, more yourself. And that is not something you get by playing it safe.

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What colour are you?
Samuel Whitburn Samuel Whitburn

What colour are you?

There is a moment in every great interior when a room stops being a collection of furniture and finishes and becomes something else entirely, something felt rather than simply seen. That transformation begins with colour.

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