Janelle Edwards-Spear Interior Design

Janelle Edwards-Spear Interior Design Interior design studio specialising in decoration and soft furnishings - always working with your special pieces.

British-influenced, layered interiors for Australian homes.

The first thing I do with a new client isn’t look at Pinterest. It’s ask them to describe the last time they felt comple...
04/06/2026

The first thing I do with a new client isn’t look at Pinterest. It’s ask them to describe the last time they felt completely at home somewhere. The answer is never about a colour or a fabric. It’s always about a feeling and that’s what I work hard to capture.

I have a small number of discovery calls open for projects beginning later this year. If you’re at the start of something or if you’ve started somewhere that doesn’t feel right feel free to reach out. 📸

I was listening to a podcast today where an interior designer said choosing paint colours made her so anxious. I underst...
28/05/2026

I was listening to a podcast today where an interior designer said choosing paint colours made her so anxious. I understood it but it’s the opposite of how I work. Early on I decided to embrace colour rather than fear it and to actually learn it. That decision is the ethos now.

None of it is instinct. A Dictionary of Color Combinations by Sanzo Wada, printed in Japan in 1933, is where I go when a scheme has gone timid. My KLC colour wheel taught me the grammar: what sits beside what, and why a near-clash holds more tension than a safe pair. Amy Smilovic’s Tibi wheel taught me to dress a room the way she dresses a person. How no-colour colours need to balance out the highly saturated and clear colours. And a blue door I passed in the street is the reminder that the best colour lessons are outdoors and free.

The moodboard is where all of it gets settled before a single litre of paint is ordered. Colour, meaning paint is the final layer I add to a room scheme and years of experience have ensured I always review undertones, strength and most importantly of all - use a good size tester patch in all different natural and artificial lights.

A lovely weekend jaunt to to partake in some Melbourne Design Week. Saw old friends and made new ones - I could have wh...
24/05/2026

A lovely weekend jaunt to to partake in some Melbourne Design Week. Saw old friends and made new ones - I could have whiled away the entire afternoon talking about art and design. So good to have this place on my doorstep, when I need some inspiration, coffee and chats with like minded people this is my place. ❤️❤️❤️

Can we have an end of the week moment for these tiles today? A pool house can often read as an afterthought with no link...
22/05/2026

Can we have an end of the week moment for these tiles today? A pool house can often read as an afterthought with no link to the house or its environment. The trick was to refuse that logic and install these tiles by . The irregular glaze of shifting colours means the pool reads into the building and the disconnect dissolves. Where a room sits in relation to the rest of the house is decided in the materials schedule not on a floor plan. 📸

This was the house where I learned that relaxation and curation aren’t opposites. Kids running through in wellies, a res...
19/05/2026

This was the house where I learned that relaxation and curation aren’t opposites. Kids running through in wellies, a rescued rector’s clock, a Tracy Emin neon next to Tom Dixon pendants, Georgian arches holding it all. Nothing fighting.

When you understand craft and history deeply enough — the rector’s clock, the arches, what Emin makes (raw, emotional, honest) and what Dixon makes (contemporary craft that earns its place) — you can trust the space enough to let it be loose.

It’s not eclecticism. It’s curatorial. And curatorial, when you know what you’re doing, can breathe.

18/05/2026

Paint it, they said. Spray it, the carpenter insisted. But I wanted the wood to stay alive.
Hand-stained, hand-painted. Slower. More expensive. Spray gives you an even coat. Hand application gives you texture, variation, depth, patina.
This is the detail nobody sees but everyone feels. Material integrity is choosing the method that lets something develop character, not something that sits still, dead and flat.

Four o’clock light at the pool house. Nearly time to wrap up for the week and enjoy the last of the afternoon light - de...
15/05/2026

Four o’clock light at the pool house. Nearly time to wrap up for the week and enjoy the last of the afternoon light - definitely with a glass of something. What’s your something?

The Old Rectory, Devon.Before my studio in Mt Eliza, Mornington Peninsula, Australia, there was this: an early Georgian ...
13/05/2026

The Old Rectory, Devon.

Before my studio in Mt Eliza, Mornington Peninsula, Australia, there was this: an early Georgian rectory in a Devon valley with five chimneys, a chipping drive and a magnolia that flowered for only a week each year.

For the next few weeks you’ll see more of it. Not as a portfolio piece. As one of the houses that shaped how I see and feel every room since.

This was a home where I learnt to loosen my designs, create lived in moments full of character and warmth.

Where did you first learn to look at a house properly? This was mine.

What an upgrade for my clients wanted to soften the black steel staircase. A big transformation but wow what a result.
10/05/2026

What an upgrade for my clients wanted to soften the black steel staircase. A big transformation but wow what a result.

Mother’s Day is rarely simple.I’m a mother and step-mother. My own mother is slipping further into dementia. And earlier...
10/05/2026

Mother’s Day is rarely simple.
I’m a mother and step-mother. My own mother is slipping further into dementia. And earlier this year I lost a woman who mothered me without being asked to.
So today I’m thinking of the good days. Like this one, afternoon tea at for my mother-in-law’s 80th.
If today is layered for you too, you’re not alone. x

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Mount Eliza, VIC
3930

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+61457981636

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