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I’m an Interior and Spatial Designer, focused on timeless, functional and nature-inspired spaces, tailored to the people who use them. Thoughtfully integrated greenery and natural elements are how a house becomes a home. I design interiors that are both beautiful and highly practical.
I grew up on acreage, without social media, with a football and siblings to keep me busy. That is still the core of who I am. I prefer the outdoors, close relationships, and quality over quantity.
Previous employment in the Royal Australian Air Force shapes how I work. As a Personnel Capability Specialist for over 12 years, I bring leadership and followership, organisation, attention to detail, approachable demeanour and a human-centred approach.
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Bachelor of Interior and Spatial Design
Certificate IV in Interior Decoration
Certificate IV in Business
Certificate IV in Leadership & Management
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Connection to the living world is part of every project, not a space-filler. I believe nature belongs in everyday life. I work with the site and the building to make the most of daylight, framed views, outdoor connections, living plants, natural materials, and patterns drawn from nature. These are design strategies, not decoration.
Design Bible - 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design -
Nature belongs in everyday life, and design is one of the most direct ways to bring it in. I treat a connection to the living world as a core part of every project, not a space-filler. That stance sits on the biophilia hypothesis: humans have an innate pull toward nature. Environmental psychology shows why that pull matters. In one well-known study, surgical patients with a window view of trees had shorter stays and needed less pain medication than matched patients facing a brick wall. Visual and sensory contact with nature can lower heart rate, blood pressure and cortisol, lift mood, and restore attention after mental fatigue.
Nature in a room also offers what researchers call soft fascination: interest that holds attention lightly, so directed attention can recover. That is a way to support a restorative experience, not only appearance. In practice it means working with the site rather than overlaying it. Daylight, framed views, outdoor connections, living plants, natural materials, and patterns drawn from nature’s own geometries are design strategies, not decoration. The aim is an interior that looks considered and also supports how people feel and function in it: calmer, more focused, and more at home.
Design Bible - 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design – Improving Health & Well-Being in the Built Environment a booklet published by Terrapin Bright Green -
Biophilic design is a priority in my work, not a finishing touch. 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design, a booklet published by Terrapin Bright Green, is the framework I use to turn a general preference for nature into practical decisions for the built environment.
Within that framework, Natural Analogues carry much of the residential work: biomorphic forms and patterns, a material connection with nature, and complexity and order. Used with the wider patterns, they are how each project meets its brief. Timelessness, functionality and biophilic design are not separate aims. They are how a space should work.
The goal is a positive effect on the person using the space, not only an aesthetic one. The work should continue supporting the user within the space long after my role is finished.
NATURE IN THE SPACE
Visual Connection with Nature
Non-Visual Connection with Nature
Non-Rhythmic Sensory Stimuli
Thermal & Airflow Variability
Presence of Water
Dynamic & Diffuse Light
Connection with Natural Systems
NATURAL ANALOGUES
Biomorphic Forms & Patterns
Material Connection with Nature
Complexity & Order
NATURE OF THE SPACE
Prospect
Refuge
Mystery
Risk/Peril
Awe
