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We engaged Anna's service to design Kitchen and facade of our new build. Anna is very friendly and easy to work with. With many years of experience, she understands clients' vision and requirements. Anna ensured that the design is achievable within a budget, and still is practical, beautiful and incorporates our must-haves and many wish-lists. The best part of Anna's service is the excellent support she provides even after the design phase. As the project is still ongoing, we had to contact her and seek suggestion and/or design clarification a number of times. Anna is always responsive, gets back on time. Highly recommend her service.

I recently had the privilege of working with Anna on the design of our office interiors. Her design talent, experience, project management skills, professionalism, and ability to think outside the square was impressive. Recently I was in need of Anna's design savvy skills for my own "tired" home. My only request was to retain the traditional character of the home and to retain the kitchen and furniture - most of! With new wall and trim colours, carefully selected accessories, soft furnishings, artwork, lighting, window treatments and new window seat reupholster, Anna has masterfully transformed our entire home into a stunning, comfortable and welcoming family home that constantly receives comments. Her eye for detail, product knowledge and high design standards has given us spaces that truly have exceeded our expectations. We love coming home to our "new" home every day! Thank you Anna!

We engaged Anna to design a substantial renovation and fit-out at for our Chatswood Sydney home. We chose Anna based on her previous work which we had seen and really liked. Our experience backs that up and we would recommend Anna to others seeking input from interior design right through to complete home re-modelling. Our renovation included demolition, extension, reuse of existing spaces and new kitchen, bathroom and laundry. Anna completed the full design drawings as well as choice of furnishings and fittings. She was responsive to our brief and reworked the design so that we are now extremely pleased living in the new spaces created.

Every person who walks through our door loves our space. It's bright, fresh, clever and didn't cost a fortune. Anna really thought about who would use the space, how the space would be used and made sure to balance functionality with beauty and light. We love Anna and we love our space!

Anna was professional in all ways as she presented us with design ideas relating to our renovation. She meticulously analysed our needs and then she maximised the use of space helping us to achieve the vision we had for our townhouse.

Anna is very knowledgeable, passionate and professional. Anna will spend the right time to ensure that the right look and furnishings and fittings. Would happily recommend Anna.

It’s a given that Anna is a great designer and can make any space look fantastic. What’s equally important and somewhat more intangible is how Anna makes spaces feel and how they impact people visiting, living or working in them. While being respectful of the integrity of our 1940s red brick house, Anna transformed it into a contemporary, comfortable, welcoming and dream entertaining house. Nobody ever leaves without saying “I love your house”. My interpretation is that they like how it looks and love how it makes them feel. Anna lives and breathes design and knows all the latest products, innovations and trends which she applies as appropriate to a client’s particular requirements. But there’s no one size fits all or cookie cutter with Anna – every concept is customised, individual and fit for purpose. Anna thinks deeply about every brief. I have experienced first hand a number of Anna’s projects including our office. Every single project LOOKS fabulous (and different) and every single one FEELS special and amazing. Oh and something else that’s important – Anna is fun to work with. There’s never a dull moment!

My husband and I recently built our first home; initially we wanted to design everything ourselves putting our ideas to life and incorporating everything we loved into our home. We quickly discovered the endless options and started to become extremely overwhelmed and confused. We decided to get an interior designer on board and that’s when we met Anna. Anna was amazing she spent the time to understand what was important to us and whilst working within our budget. She was able to take our ideas and bring them to life (something we were not able to achieve alone). The design brief exceeded our expectations keeping the home functional, elegant, interesting and modern. Anna designed our kitchen, pantry, laundry, master bathroom, ensuite and powder room all of which are exactly what we wanted and are all very well designed in terms of practicality. Anna had the ability to ensure all our visions came to light in a timely and costly manner. Anna made many onsite visits working with the builder and trades to ensure everything ran smoothly. We were able to trust Anna and her judgement, when she made a visit on site we knew everything was/would go to plan. Anna has a wonderfully creative mind with extensive knowledge of the various materials, trends and suppliers. We cannot recommend Anna highly enough she not only delivered a beautiful end result she was also very fun to work with.

We hired this company, having not known them before, but by recommendation, to assist us in the design process for a theatre restaurant concept. Without Anna's guidance, wealth of knowledge, honesty and dedicated approach, we would have been lost in the entire process. Anna was extremely accommodating to our preferences and our over-all creative vision, and worked in with this to create spectacular concepts and design features. Anna was extremely easy to work with, and very professional. I would have no hesitation in recommending this company to anyone attempting a large scale creative design project.

As a builder, I have worked with If... Design Explorers on a number of projects over the last few years. I will continue to recommend them to prospective clients to bring their design dreams to life. Anna is highly professional and has an incredible eye for detail ensuring the results are as individual as her clients. Her experience and extensive industry contacts are an asset to her clients- she is able to source furniture, fabrics and flooring anywhere from Canberra to her overseas suppliers as well as designing detailed joinery layouts to maximize the space at hand. Anna completely meets her clients requests and takes the pressure off them to create homes and workplaces that feel completely refined and all aspects of the project connect to give a feeling of balance, structure and coordination.

We regularly work with Anna and Design Explorers and have for over two years now. Anna's passion for design and innovation is second to none. We see the relationships she establishes with her clients and trades and are always impressed. Anna's eye for detail and colour, her open mind and international influences are second to none. Design Explorers always put their clients first and are driven for a perfect outcome. We really enjoy helping bring Anna's designs to life.

Anna is thorough,diligent and has a flair that we were after. Used her for 3 large tasks now and happy everytime!

Anna exudes style, warmth and creativity. She was an absolute dream to work with in the total renovation of my townhouse. She listened, researched and crafted an edgy, innovative & intuitive design brief that brought ideas to life. Her clear concise communication style, her ability to work cohesively with myself & my builder, her extensive network of contacts & her attention to detail, ensured that that my timelines of moving in on a specified date were met. There was a week that I was not contactable or available to be onsite & Anna was me. She stepped in and instructed the builder regarding functional & spatial requirements. She intuitively made decisions on my behalf, for which I shall be ever grateful. I love returning to my home each evening, knowing that it was designed with so much functionality in mind but most of all, it was designed for me by Anna.

I could not recommend if ... Design Explorers highly enough. They did a great job on our physiotherapy practice refurbishment, making practical use of all aspects of our office, treatment and reception space. All work was met to a budget and on time. They are professional and attention to detail was exceptional. I would certainly use their services again in the future.