Charlotte Minty Interior Design is Ten Years Old

Charlotte Minty Interior Design is ten years old! My, time has flown - and as I think back, some of it is a little fuzzy!
I have had many fantastic clients over the years who have taken me on (thank you) and who have challenged me with their briefs. And boy, there has been a variety - interior design, wedding design, visual merchandising, teaching, magazine styling, furniture design and so on it goes. I love the challenges and have learnt so much. It is most satisfying for me as I finish each job with happy clients.
A big shout out goes to my family - especially to my mentor, Alan Minty who continually takes the time to look over my work and freely share his years of wisdom in the architecture industry. To Judy Minty, Dorian Minty and Amelia Minty, who over the years I have either collaborated with, have discussions and bounce ideas with, who buoyed me up when things got challenging as well as other aspects that come with working in design and running your own business. Your love and support is priceless - thank you so much.
Here's to another ten years!
Photograph via oncewed.

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Completed Work - New Kitchen

If there is one thing that I been doing a bad job of this year, that would be not taking photos of my work after it has been completed. It is so easy to finish a job and move on to the next one without reflecting on the whole process and enjoying the results. Also, interiors can be difficult to photograph! Excuses aside, I have been calling up a few clients and I'll be slowly going around and recording some of the work done this year.
This hardwearing family kitchen is located in a traditional house in Wellington - the client wanted clean lines, lots of storage and to use traditional materials like timber and stone to give texture.

Upstand detail on kitchen island



Vertical subway tiles

New Emeco bar stools with red leather seats at the breakfast bar 

Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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An Office Lunch Room

We made sure that New Zealand was centred to the wall and very visible!

Contrasting timbers looks effective - American Ash leaner and dark oak stained bar stools

One resolution I plan to take up next year is photographing my interior design work and keeping it up to date! It is just so easy to let it slide as I have many projects this year that I haven't recorded. So it's high time I catch up on this.
To start on the good habit, here is the lunch room for a real estate office that I worked on several months ago. It is yet to be completed, however it is looking great so far.
The staff members are loving the Dairy bar leaner paired with Thonet BST 75 bar stools - creating a great interaction space for several departments to share. The cool wall map completes the picture.
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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New Cushions

Here is a job that I have been assisting with since last year and today we installed some of the finishing touches.

This interior has a great mix of vintage and modern pieces throughout and we continued the theme with the cushions. The top photo shows the Morris and Co 'Strawberry Thief' fabric, originally released in 1883 and recently re-released to celebrate 150 years of William Morris' work. To offset this piece, the other cushions come from the modern range by Dwell Studio. My client made some great choices here.

Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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New Work - Kitchen Before and After.

The Kitchen - Before. This was a former showroom kitchen.

The previous kitchen did not allow direct access from the front door.

The Kitchen - After.

We used bamboo flooring and Corian on the island benchtop.

The kitchen tap with presence!

An upstand on the island creates division and a place for the powerpoints at each end.

A glossy black fridge.

The tiled splashback inserted with an art glass tile on the left.

Brushed stainless steel benchtop to match the freestanding oven.

Bamboo was continued on the island as the surround for the shelving at the end.

Double rangehood hidden in the cupboards above for the extra wide hob.

The commissoned art tile all lit up.

The art tile with light off.

We kept the client's chemistry collection from the previous kitchen and amped it up with some interesting lighting.

The lights slowly change colour - a disco in the kitchen!

Here is a kitchen that I designed and managed last year. I re-visited a few weeks ago and took some photos - I enjoyed seeing it again and to be reminded of the great transformation!
What I liked about this job was while the clients had some typical kitchen design requests like more storage, better flow, new bigger and better oven (had to come from Italy!), lots of drawers; there were other more interesting requests - they had commissioned an art tile for the splashback, they had a chemistry collection (signage, bottles) to display, they were keen on interesting lighting, they had a small scale art glass collection to display as well as a request for certain materials like bamboo flooring. I enjoyed working on this job and liked the surprises that my client handed me to work with.
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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New Work - Soft Furnishings for a Media Room.

An updated and cosy media room with new soft furnishings and drapes.

A comfortable new sofa from David Shaw and new drapes with a falling leaf pattern.

We re-upholstered the previously 'blah' cream chairs in this great patterned fabric.

Close up detail of this fabric from Westbury.

And for interest, we did one in each colour.

I got a chance to visit a client earlier this week to see the results of a job I worked on. My clients wanted to update their media room with new soft furnishings, drapes and to make the room more cosy. It was great to see everything in place and looking really good.
If you are interested in the fabrics and new furniture used here, they are available through Charlotte Minty Interior Design.
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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Patterns, Prints and Drapes.

New drapes for a client's home - this one in lovely faded vintage style floral fabric.

A great colourful paisley for the main Living area.

I had some drapes installed into a client's house this week and I think they came up beautifully. I have enjoyed working on this job as it is a character home and the client is working a mix of traditional and modern aesthetic throughout the house. So we aimed for patterned fabrics that had a traditional touch but still looked fresh and contemporary. These print fabrics from Westbury Textiles worked well into the scheme. All fabrics are available through Charlotte Minty Design.
Photographs by Charlotte Minty and via Westbury Textiles.

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Bathroom - Vanity Basins with a touch of Colour.

Soft blue with T&G on the bathroom vanity.

In a neutral bathroom, colour on the vanity works well.

The same combination was carried on into the Ensuite.

I met with a client today and when I proposed allocating a soft blue-green onto the new bathroom vanity, she was uncertain about this combination. So I thought I would bring up this bathroom from last year - all neutral with a side of soft blue. Hope she's keen.
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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