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Christine May Lewsey / Christine May Interior Design

Christine Lewsey is the owner of Christine May Interior Design and also its principal designer. The company provides a comprehensive interior design service for private clients, property developers and small hoteliers as well as for corporate receptions and office space.

Christine first trained as a graphic designer, which gave her insight into colour, composition and form and a passion for detail. Deadline driven projects were the norm, so a healthy respect for good organisation and time management was prerequisite.

Her first sortie into interior design, some 15 years ago, was to create a brasserie-style café from two existing classrooms in a 1960s central London university; this led to the design of many prestigious reception areas, office suites, bars and cafes in both education and commercial sectors.

In 2000 Christine set up her own company with the emphasis shifting to private residential projects, small hotels and home staging for property developers. She has become known for using quality materials, elegance, harmony and, meticulous attention to detail.

Her abiding ethos is that the client is King. Each of her projects is overseen personally from the initial brief, through the creative and building processes then onto the final installation.

Recent projects include a luxury penthouse apartment in London’s St Katherine’s Dock, the award winning Barratt Green House and a six bedroom property in Hadley Wood, Herts.

The penthouse was a turn-key project which was overseen by Christine from beginning to end. Bathrooms were fitted out to the highest standard and innovative, bespoke solutions were found to storage problems in the clients’ two studies and in all the bedrooms.

The Barratt Green House was the 2007 winner of the national architectural ‘Home for the Future’ design competition. After enduring a rigorous interview procedure, Christine and her team were selected to design the interior. Christine wholeheartedly bought in to the sustainable agenda for the house and devoted considerable time to creating an interior, which followed this ethos carefully, resulting in a house which carries the zero carbon goals from the foundations right through to the roof terrace furniture.

The house in Hadley Wood is a family home, which the client had started to design herself but she felt that she had gone as far as she could without professional help and she was now ready to hand over the reins. Christine injected some colour into the already subtly designed rooms and over the past two years she has completely designed several other rooms including the dining room, breakfast room, guest suite and several bathrooms. Chistine has also designed and had bespoke furniture made for the house as well as designing clever storage solutions for awkward spaces. The project is on going and over the next year Christine will design and oversee the works on the dressing rooms and master suite and the pool house (currently at concept stage).