CHALLENGING MISCONCEPTIONS SINCE 2015
WHAT WE BELIEVE
At Making Spaces, we believe a home should feel as good as it looks. Not created for show, but carefully considered for everyday life.
A home that reflects your values, supports your lifestyle, and connects you to your environment can bring a lasting sense of calm, balance, and wellbeing.
Thoughtful design has the power to elevate not just a space, but the way you experience it.
WHAT WE DO
Making Spaces offers a highly personal, client-led design service for those seeking something considered and individual.
We take time to understand how you live, what you value, and how your home can work harder for you - interpreting your brief with sensitivity and care to the surroundings
Our approach blends creativity with technical insight, introducing solutions that feel both refined and entirely liveable.
WHAT WE SPECIALISE IN
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Spatial planning and interior architecture for renovations, extensions, and bespoke homes
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Environmentally conscious design, with an emphasis on longevity, materials, and passive house principles
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Biophilic and anthropological approaches that connect people, place, and purpose
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Interiors rooted in authenticity, integrity, and personality
Since founding Making Spaces in 2015, Karen has won Best of Houzz awards for 11 consecutive years with her work being featured in several publications, including The Sunday Times Home, Livingetc, The Telegraph, The iPaper, Homes and Gardens, several online features including Houzz, MADE.COM, Apartment Therapy, Mad About the House alongside TV features on BBC1, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
"Karen took my ramblings and vague brief and developed them into an exquisite design, and I now find I have a room that almost feels like it gives me a hug every time I walk in. I feel I am the very lucky custodian of a work of art that Karen has produced and am looking forward to transforming the rest of the house into a unique and personalised home"
M. Owen - Harrogate.
"If you are fortunate enough to work with Karen you will love the experience and the finished product."
K. Griggs, Sand Hutton
Karen is a superb interior designer, but it goes way beyond that, she's a space planner, a translator, a project manager and a phenomenal seeker of great design ideas that matched what we needed in our home.
N. Roach, Leeds
Karen is a simply brilliant interior designer to work with. We weren't sure what to expect but she very quickly got under the skin of our requirements, and the end result is a quantum leap ahead of anything we could ever have done ourselves, whilst simultaneously fully reflecting our personalities.
R. Misra, Leeds
WHAT THE PRESS SAY
"...a very clever interior designer who seems to be effortlessly on trend"
Kate Watson-Smyth, Mad About the House
