Helen Brown
Hello!
I'm Helen, and I am the face behind livingSPACES.
Interior designer, stylist and colour consultant.
I have worked with clients for over 20 years helping them create perfectly, uniquely tailored spaces to live, work and play in.
Creating an amazing space starts at the very beginning - with the journey of bringing a space to life or into its next evolution and falling in love with the process itself.
My Story
My interior design journey started in 2003 in a multi-disciplinary architectural firm. For the first few years of my career, I worked exclusively designing commercial spaces, including several stints with local government working on projects such as libraries, offices for Main Roads, Queensland Health and notable council buildings.
Throughout my career I have touched nearly every facet of design from shop fitting, cabinet making, retail fitouts, new homes, residential design and property styling. Along side design I spent many years in technical specification roles working for local manufacturers, assisting architects and designers to specify products across plumbing, textiles, partitions and ceilings on projects ranging from multi-residential, commercial fit out, infrastructure, rail, sporting facilities, hospitals, schools and high end homes.
This vast and eclectic experience has given me a very solid and tangible understanding of the entire end to end process of design, specification, manufacturing & procurement, building & construction, project management right through to styling and bringing all of the finishing touches together to make a project complete.
the livingSPACES Philosophy
In the world today, and more than ever, we are bombarded with pictures of what our lives can look like - literally, in the form if 'inspiration' and the many, many platform that exist, as well as metaphorically in the subtle, and not-so-subtle suggestions of what our best happy life is meant to look like.
However, just like true beauty, great design and beautiful spaces first come from within. It doesn't start with pictures, it starts with YOU.
Each and every one of us is our own 'living expert' on our lives, and the things that we need to make us feel at home - settled, nurtured, alive, and enriched - not just in our space, but within our selves.
My job as a designer to connect to this inner mastery within you, draw it out and translate this into a physical externalisation of a space that is uniquely, and perfectly crafted be what you need it to be to support the lives and activity within in.
My goal is to help make the process of creating amazing, personalised spaces simple and fun so that falling in love with your new space starts well before it comes to life.
Amazing design is about falling in love with your space - over and over again. Spaces that you back to time and time again and say 'my god, I love my home so much!'
Whatever your budget, style, lifestyle or scope. Beautiful, simple, accessible design is for everyone, and every space.
