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Sherrie will work closely with your architect, builder and landscape designer to ensure a cohesive design that minimises your time output, or enables you to be as involved as you like in the process. Akin Design works with and can recommend a trusted team of tradespeople that can realise designs to a high specification and exceed client expectations.

Alongside the build part of a renovation, Akin Design uses a wide range of wholesalers, retailers and craftspeople to design the final layers for your home in furniture and decor. A well designed space deserves to be furnished with consideration so it can become a home to be enjoyed everyday. Sherrie can work with the special pieces you already own and tie these together with carefully selected pieces, adhering to your budget and time constraints or start from scratch to build a collection of lovely pieces to turn a house into a home.

Sherrie loves what she does and looks forward to taking future clients on the journey where considered design is the process and living is the product.

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