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MARG. Studio

We’re a small town interior design studio sharing big city ideas.

From a single space to a complete home, MARG.Studio offers a full and flexible interior design and decoration service for residential, retail and hospitality projects.

26/08/2026

A great room isn’t just a good idea. It’s a hundred decisions made correctly, by a team, in real time.

The designer holds the vision. The builder holds the ex*****on. The good projects happen in the space between them — the calls, the questions, the small corrections nobody else ever sees.

I’m lucky to work with builders who close that gap instead of widening it. It shows up in every finished room, even if you can’t point to exactly where.

If you’re planning a build or renovation, the team you choose matters - especially your builder.

25/08/2026

Everyone has a Pinterest board. Everyone knows the difference between a room that feels right and one that doesn’t.

What most people don’t have is the part after that — the floor plan that actually works, the finish schedule that keeps six trades on the same page, the hundred small decisions that never make it onto a moodboard but decide whether the finished room feels effortless or like it’s fighting itself.

Taste picks the finishes. Design makes them work together.

11/08/2026

A fond farewell to Amber — our first ever employee.

Amber joined MARG. Studio almost two years ago and left her mark on the studio in ways big and small.

Her passion for interiors and how we live showed up everywhere — including in her own reno, which she’s tackled with genuinely clever ideas for creating a warm, inviting home.

Wishing Amber all the best as she returns to real estate, with her next chapter at McGrath Estate Agents Orange & Molong .

Thank you, Amber, for everything you’ve brought to MARG. Studio. Lucky for me, Orange is a small place, — I’ll miss you but I’ll see you around. Em x

01/08/2026

Love at first site last October, install day yesterday — I’m obsessed.

Some materials just stop you. This dolomite from Art Of Marble: Natural Stone Suppliers was one of those — it still blows my mind that colour and texture like this come out of the ground. I’d argue nothing man-made could ever replicate it. Pink, blue, khaki, soft apricot, sharp accent lines — something different wherever you look.

The concept for this space was one feature benchtop carrying the room, everything else beautifully detailed but playing a supporting role. Every other selection was made around this stone, so I was holding my breath until it went in yesterday.

The Mudgee Kitchens team have Mudgee Kitchens every curve on this one — but the result speaks for itself.

30/07/2026

Yesterday I stood in a tile shop with a client, choosing tapware, vanities and finishes for her bathroom and laundry.

She wasn’t choosing from thousands of options. She was choosing from a shortlist — because months earlier we’d already done the work of defining the concept for the space.

That’s the part of this job that doesn’t show up in a render. Renovating and building is one of the biggest financial decisions most people make — and without a clear concept to filter against, it’s easy to spend on things that look good in isolation but don’t serve the space, or the budget, as a whole.

A concept isn’t a nice-to-have step before the “real” decisions. It’s what makes every dollar after it easier to spend well.

Looking forward to seeing work on this chic black and neutral bathroom commence later in the year.

24/07/2026

Another month almost down. Quiet on here but lots of real life highlights. In no particular order…

Our kitchen at is being installed this week! The finish line is in site.

This final fit off stage has been a series of little happy dances. Green living room walls, a high gloss white ceiling, gingham floor tiles, custom wardrobe door profiles and so many more little bit of design coming together after months of planning followed by months of hard work by the team on site.

💍 Got engaged to a delightful human on a stunning weekend away at Gilay Estate.

After (almost) making it through our renovation, I cannot wait to plan this next fun “project” together.

🍂 Enjoying the most amazing winter sun in Orange.

🎨 Took leave to go to Winter School at NAS for a Contemporary Interiors Painting course.

Learning to loosen up the preciseness that comes with my job with a bit of colour and light.

✏️ A few new drawing techniques too.

Spent an afternoon with a client sourcing a number of beautiful second hand pieces for their home in Orange. That marble and the carved details!

Would you rather spend $900 on a stunning piece like this or on some average piece of furniture that looks like everyone else’s?

Visited Nike Savva’s Purple Haze exhibition at Orange Regional Gallery. Mesmerising to stand and watch.

12/06/2026

Does your house have an old palm tree out the front? If so, we need to talk.

When homes like this were built — over a hundred years ago — exotic palms were planted as specimen trees. A considered choice. A way of saying: someone lived here, and they cared about how it looked.

Here’s what I already know about your home. The original portion is solid — high ceilings, good bones, possibly some beautiful original details. At some point a verandah was filled in. Then a lean-to added at the back. Then another addition in the sixties or seventies when more space was needed again.

And now you’re here, thinking about a new kitchen or bathroom, craving more space.

Hot tip: you don’t need more space. You need a better layout.

I know it can be hard to see how it could possibly all come together. But in almost every house like this, the space is already there — it just needs to be reconnected and better worked.

These houses are at a turning point. We either take what we have and reinterpret it so it survives another few generations, or they fall into disrepair and can’t be saved.

The palm tree out the front has made it this far. The house deserves the same.

09/06/2026

People often worry about choosing materials that will “show their age”. As if that’s a flaw.

Paint softens. Brass deepens. Timber shifts slightly with time and use. What we call “wear” is often just the character beginning to show itself.

There can be a strange expectation that everything should look exactly as it did on installation.

Chosen properly, your materials add life to your home. They are not static. They become lived in.

Even after a few months these brass door handles at our Millthorpe project are settling in beautifully against the deep green/blue door.

The material brief from the client for this house was “bulletproof but beautiful”. Couldn’t have put it better myself!

03/06/2026

Deja vu - Over the last month I’ve had several people tell me the same story.

They spent months exploring options, refining ideas, building confidence in their selections — only to get to the final decision and retreat back to shades of white, beige or grey.

The reasoning is almost always the same: what if I get sick of it?

The gingham tile in our own renovation never felt like a risk. After following the process — narrowing down, refining, sitting with it — it felt like exactly the right thing. That’s what a considered design process does. It gets you to a decision you can actually back.
And for what it’s worth: a plain white bathroom isn’t immune to dating. It just dates differently — and often sooner than a choice that was allowed to settle into its own personality over time.

Make the bold choice.

28/05/2026

This week I took a client through our building site Margaret Street to walk through the renovation. Not to see the before and after — to see the in between.

The drawings we created alongside the finished detail. The specification sheet next to the installed product.

There is something about standing in a space and being able to point to exactly why a decision was made. Not because it looked good on a mood board — because it was drawn, documented, and resolved before a single trade started.

That is the bit that disappears in photos of finished rooms. But it is the bit that made the room.

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