Interior Design for Homes in Kilkenny & the South East
South Hill Studio creates thoughtful, enduring homes through considered design, balancing elegance, comfort and a deep understanding of place.
Consultations
A consultation provides expert design advice tailored to your home, your priorities and the stage you are at.
Whether reviewing a single room or an entire home, the focus is on understanding what the house needs, which decisions matter most, and what should happen first — so you can move forward with greater clarity and ease.
Building & Renovating
Building or renovating a home involves hundreds of decisions, from layouts and lighting to finishes and furnishings.
By evaluating the home as a whole, I help ensure individual decisions work together and support the long-term vision for the property.
The Psychology of Home
You know that unsettled feeling of looking at an unfinished room.
The space doesn’t feel right, but you can’t quite work out why. You find yourself caught in a spiral of decisions, beautiful images, colour options and second guesses. You may have spent months looking at the same piece of furniture, unable to pull the trigger. Or you may have tried to make sensible compromises, using cheaper options, only to find that the room still isn’t coming together.
I understand this feeling. I have experienced it in my own home, and I see it time and again with clients.
Because the real issue is not just the sofa. It’s not the paint colour. And while AI images can be useful, they only show you what you want to see or what you tell it- not what is truly, fantastically, creatively possible, for You.
Home is more than a collection of things. It is not about impressing other people, chasing a perfect image, or recreating something you saw online. Home is living, breathing and evolving. It should hold who you are, how you move through the day, and what makes you feel most yourself.
That is where the real design work begins.
When we stop forcing a room to look right and start asking why it feels unsettled, something shifts. We answer questions about ourselves that we didn’t know needed attention. Decisions become clearer, the room begins to take shape with more honesty and our lives start to shift.
Good design in our homes can become transformative. It becomes where you can exhale. A place that reflects who you are, not who you think you should be. A place for you to be fully yourself, when no one is looking.
Recent Projects
A selection of recent projects, from new builds and renovations to existing homes.
The Design Process
Every project begins with understanding the home, the priorities and the decisions that will have the greatest impact. From there, the level of involvement can be tailored to suit the project.
A focused meeting, virtual or in person, to understand your space, clarify what matters most, and give considered design direction before further decisions are made.
Following the consultation, a complete design direction is developed and resolved. The Design Map brings together all aspects of design into a cohesive plan.
A fully managed interior design installation and implementation service, from concept through completion.