I’m Katie Le Tissier, a Guernsey-based interior designer with over a decade of experience helping people create homes that look beautiful, work better and feel right for the people living in them.
We have more inspiration, products and ways to visualise our homes than ever before. But more choice hasn’t necessarily made designing a home easier.
Often, the difficult part is knowing which ideas are right for you. What is worth changing, where to spend, what to keep and how all of those decisions fit together.
That’s where I see my role.
I’m not here to impose a particular look or redesign everything for the sake of it. I’m here to understand you, your home and the way you live, then use my experience to help you make confident decisions.
That might mean designing an entire room. It might mean solving one awkward area. And sometimes it means telling you that something you thought needed changing actually doesn’t.
A home isn’t a showroom.
It has to cope with work, family, pets, hobbies, visitors, storage, changing routines and all the everyday things that rarely appear in the finished photograph.
I’m interested in understanding those things rather than designing around them.
Good design should make your home easier to live in as well as nicer to look at, whether that means better storage, a layout that finally works, materials suited to the household or simply creating a space that feels calmer and more like you.
I’ve worked in interior design for over a decade, everything from individual rooms and awkward problem areas to bespoke furniture, fitted joinery and larger whole-home renovations.
Before running my own studio, I also worked as an in-house interior designer, which gave me experience of seeing projects from lots of different angles, not just creating the initial scheme, but working alongside clients, suppliers, contractors and other professionals.
Working in Guernsey has added another layer to that experience. Designing on an island comes with its own practical realities: availability, shipping, lead times, and local trades.
Over the years, I’ve also learnt that the biggest value of experience is often knowing what not to do. When a layout doesn’t need changing. When the expensive option won’t actually solve the problem. When one decision is likely to create another issue further down the line. Or when a client simply needs somebody to cut through twenty possibilities and say, “This is the direction I would take, and here’s why.”
That is ultimately what I bring to a project: not just ideas, but the experience to assess them, question them and turn them into decisions that work in real life.
I take time to understand the person behind the project rather than starting with a predetermined style.
Beautiful design still has to work in everyday life and within the realities of budget, space and implementation.
You stay involved in your home. My role is to bring expertise, direction and an experienced eye to the decisions that matter.
That thinking led me to create Feel Good Home, where I explore the wider relationship between our homes and how we feel, function and live.
The two sides of my work are different, but they share the same belief: our homes should support the lives happening inside them.
You don’t need to know exactly what kind of help you need. Tell me what’s going on and I’ll recommend the best place to start.