Shakespeare Design

Fiona Shakespeare, from Shakespeare Design, transformed our Balmain cottage into a bijoux dream, full of charm, style and warmth. Fiona is a talented & sensitive designer who fully captured our vision and need for functionality within the modest spaces of our little cottage. She made the process fun and exciting via her passion for materials, texture and colour. I am tempted to clog up this review with all the beautiful vignettes that Fiona created and the thoughtful and stylish material and light choices she made for our beautiful home. But the images I have attached here will adequately demonstrate Fiona’s peerless taste. Divine! Even under extremely difficult circumstances, while we were isolating in country NSW during the 2021 lockdown, Fiona’s dedication, hard work and passion kept the renovation moving along. She is a true professional and we trust her 1000%. I absolutely loved working with Fiona, and am already planning future projects with her.

I recently engaged Fiona for a renovation and new build in Balmain. Fiona has been invaluable to me in this process. She designed my kitchen, bathrooms as well as interior and exterior finishes. During Covid restrictions I was unable to visit the house or suppliers for much of the time and relied on Fiona to liaise with the builders and tradespeople. I am very happy with the results and highly recommend Fiona.

I worked with Fiona on a major renovation at Sylvania Waters and found Fiona to be professional, approachable, extremely knowledgeable and the end product turned out perfect. Fiona put together a detailed list of building specifications and a comprehensive colour scheme with a high attention to detail. I highly recommend anyone seeking an experienced professional who provides elegant and current design ideas to contact Shakespeare designs.

I had the pleasure of working with Fiona during my home renovation in 2019. I engaged Fiona to assist me throughout the renovation on internal and external colour schemes, window furnishings, design concepts and to be my general sounding board on design aesthetics. Fiona is an experienced and talented interior designer who was able to filter out what I was hoping to achieve, despite my sometimes "loose" brief. I found her to be patient and her advice on many aspects of design was invaluable. There were times I was completely confused about the right decision on a design element, and Fiona had the ability to confidently and quickly give me direction. I would highly recommend Fiona to anyone hoping to engage an interior designer on any level.

I’ve engaged Shakespeare Design on several occasions over the last ten years, including colour scheme advice, choosing fabrics for curtains & blinds and most recently to assist with planning a new kitchen. Fiona has a fantastic ability to listen and put forward ideas and designs that consider my style aesthetics, that I would never have thought of & I love. She is amazing at colour & proposed a house colour paint scheme, that completely lifted the exterior. More recently, she suggested colour combinations and materials for a new kitchen that are exactly right for the space, and tie in with the aesthetics of the rest of the house. The curtain fabrics she sourced were spot on, and still look fresh & contemporary. Fiona is my go to designer, very easy to work with and the results have been fabulous.

We have worked with Fiona from 2015 on our first home and again in 2018 on a larger scale on a new family home. The first project was quite a "simple" one as the home was quite established already. But "simple" does not do justice to what Fiona did. She transformed our living room and our master bedroom into stylish and beautiful living spaces. Our master bedroom became my santuary instead of just bedroom.For the second home project, we engaged Fiona right from the beginning and we are so grateful for her expertise. Fiona has impeccable taste from interior decor to kitchen designs, soft furnishings and lighting. She was very aware of our budget and knew where we should direct our spending to get more value. The end result is now a home so tastefully put together and brings a lot of joy to the family. Fiona is very easy to work with but yet very professional at all times.