TESTIMONIALS
Thoughtful interiors, designed around the people who live in them.
Every project begins with listening. These clients share what it was like to work with McMahon Design and how considered interior design changed the way they experience their homes.
“Lianne listened to our preferences and guided us towards a result we’re delighted with”.
After an expansive build we had a limited budget but wanted some nice furnishings that would suit our architecturally designed home. Lianne went out of her way to find products at reasonable cost yet very good quality with a modern look. Where possible she passed all designer discounts to us to help us with our budget. Lianne was very open to our feedback and worked towards our preferences to ensure we were happy with the final outcome.
Lianne is very professional, intelligent and passionate about her work. She always guided us in the right direction and gave us good honest opinions. She is also very easy to deal with and is great at following up with suppliers. Lianne takes great pride in her work and works tirelessly to ensure her suppliers do a great job for her clients.
We are extremely happy with the work Lianne did for us and delighted with the result.
Smeeta and I really enjoyed working with you, we will definitely recommend you to colleagues, clients , friends and families.”
Hitesh & Smeeta S
“The finished house feels considered and cohesive without feeling like a show piece — it still feels completely like our home, just a much more beautiful version of it”.
We absolutely loved working with Lianne on the interior design of our renovation. She took the colours from a piece of window art we had chosen as the starting point and developed them into a beautiful, cohesive scheme that flows throughout the house.
One of the things she did particularly well was finding the balance between old and new. Our home has its own history and character, and she created a scheme that feels sympathetic to its age, picking up and echoing original character features while introducing modern touches that make the house feel fresh and very much ours.
She really listened to how we wanted to live in the house and tailored her designs to our family and our needs, rather than simply giving us a particular “look”. She was thoughtful, collaborative and genuinely lovely to work with, and we always felt that our preferences were being heard while also benefiting from her expertise and eye for design.
A renovation involves an enormous number of individual decisions, and having Lianne holding the overall vision made such a difference. The finished house feels considered and cohesive without feeling like a show piece — it still feels completely like our home, just a much more beautiful version of it.
We’re absolutely delighted with what she created for us and would happily recommend her.
Louise - North Shore
More Client Feedback
“Working with Lianne has been the best approach to the overwhelming design ideas, needs and wants I began with.”
From the initial concept design right through to the finishing touches, Lianne clarified, consolidated, and enhanced my renovation plans. Professional, resourceful; skilled with colour, texture and finishes, Lianne transformed my older home into a refined and modernised home that proudly retains character and timeless appeal. The time taken to truly listen and absorb our priorities provided the superb, cohesive scheme we love!
Working collaboratively and effectively with our Builder and tradespeople, Lianne’s experienced eye and flair for making the most of every feature proved invaluable.
The results exceeded our expectations and truly transformed how we now live and experience ‘being at home’.
Francis H - Mairangi Bay“I can highly recommend Lianne to clients looking for well considered interior design”.
“I have dealt with Lianne as a client several times, and she has been involved with interior design commissions for projects I have completed for other clients. The feed-back from my clients regarding Lianne’s work has been positive and a recent client has welcomed her involvement in terms of resolving some issues they were becoming unable to move forward with.
Lianne is very enthusiastic in her approach resolving design solutions and I value her creative approach which always results in a great outcome. I can highly recommend Lianne to clients looking for well considered interior design outcomes and am happy to receive any calls regarding this reference.”
John D’Anvers - Architect “She listened patiently, bought unique ideas, and worked within our budget”.
“It was a pleasure working with Lianne from start to finish. She listened patiently, brought unique ideas and worked with our budget and timeline constraints. We are very happy with the end result.”
Stella C North Shore “Your flair, attention and eye for detail are qualities that we have benefitted from.”
“As our project in Milford gets closer to completion we’d like to place on record our joyous satisfaction with the way you have managed dressing our home and the finishing process for us. We have often had quite disparate views on how things should happen: whether they should be constrained or lead, by artistic, functional, or economic guidelines, or as in our case, all three.
You came to us highly recommended by John D’Anvers who had been our architect and friend for over thirty years. We had asked John to act as a mediator/arbitrator/adviser to help us to agree on a multitude of things, and John in his wisdom passed that task on to you. You have more than met the many challenges that were involved, with the end result being radically different for how we would have done it, and infinitely better!
Your flair, attention and eye for detail are qualities that we have benefitted from. Thank you Lianne, if we had to do it all again, we’d very happily come back to you.
David & Mary - Milford