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Koto Designs

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Koto Designs is a Perth-based interior design studio creating well-resolved interiors through thoughtful spatial planning, material selection, and design strategy.

22/09/2026

With open shelving, I like to leave some breathing room rather than filling every surface.

Here, the warm timber carries most of the visual weight, with black accents repeated through the room to give the shelving a bit more structure. Books, ceramics and smaller objects add personality, while the baskets keep the more practical storage tucked away.

The result still feels lived in, but there is enough space around each piece for it to read clearly.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

14/09/2026

Flat lay: muted greens, warm timber and soft neutrals.

This palette is built around earthy colour and plenty of variation in texture. The timber brings warmth, the greens add depth, and the pale stone and linen keep the overall feel soft and balanced.

The combination of woven fabrics, textured carpet, smooth stone and timber gives the scheme enough variation to feel layered while keeping the palette restrained.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

24/08/2026

Timber has a strong influence on the tone of a room.

Different species and finishes carry different undertones, from golden and red through to cooler brown and grey. Those undertones affect how the timber sits alongside paint, stone, flooring, upholstery and other finishes throughout the space.

When I’m building a palette, I look at those relationships together. A warmer timber might sit well with soft neutrals, earthy greens or warmer stone, while a cooler timber can shift the direction of the surrounding colours entirely.

Texture matters here too. Timber introduces grain, variation and warmth, and can help give a room more weight and character when it is considered as part of the whole scheme.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

10/08/2026

When finishes are selected room by room, each choice can work well on its own while the home as a whole begins to feel disconnected.

Before specifying individual products, I establish a framework for the project. This includes deciding which materials will be carried through the home, where variation will add interest, how colour and contrast will be balanced, and which details will become recurring visual cues.

Having this direction in place makes the many smaller decisions easier and helps avoid selecting finishes based only on how they appear in isolation or in a showroom.

If you’re planning a renovation or new build and would like help developing a cohesive design direction, you can submit an enquiry through the link in my bio.

03/08/2026

How are your interior spaces affecting you and your wellbeing?

Interior design reaches beyond style and aesthetics. It considers the full experience of a space: how you move through it, where things are stored, how the light changes throughout the day, how materials feel, and whether each room supports what you need to do there.

Poor flow, harsh lighting, visual clutter, inadequate storage, or furniture that is out of scale can create ongoing friction and frustration. Layout, lighting, proportion, texture, colour, and acoustics can also influence whether a space feels restful, energising, warm, or comfortable to spend time in.

These details shape daily life, often in ways that are difficult to identify until something is no longer working.

Planning them carefully gives each room a clearer purpose and helps your home function in a way that supports you.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

14/07/2026

Starting your interior design project can be challenging, but it is crucial to plan it well in order to achieve success.

To ensure that your project runs smoothly and efficiently, involving an interior designer as early as possible is highly recommended.

By involving a designer in the early stages of your project, you can make design changes that can help you avoid unnecessary expenses or delays in completing the project on time.

If you want to achieve a clear direction on what you can achieve in your interiors, let’s chat

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

10/07/2026

Flat lay: soft, grounded and tonal palette.

With dark timber, pale oak, warm stone, textured carpet, and soft neutral linens, this scheme leans on materiality as much as colour.

The variation in texture does most of the work here. The darker timber adds depth, the stone keeps things grounded, and the linen brings a more relaxed softness.

Together, it creates a sense of balance in both tone and feel, so the space ends up calm, considered, and easy to live in.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

Flat lay: warm neutral palette with muted green.

With softened whites, muted green upholstery, pale stone, oak, and natural linens, this scheme leans on materiality as much as colour.

The variation in texture does most of the work here. The green introduces a gentle depth, the stone keeps things grounded, and the linen brings a more casual softness.

Together, it creates a sense of balance in both tone and feel, so the space ends up calm, practical, and comfortable to live in.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

06/07/2026

The timber, white bedding, and softer layers here create a bedroom that feels relaxed, grounded, and easy to live in.

The french linen helps keep it effortless rather than overly done, while the darker accents give the room enough depth and presence to feel considered.

This is also why planning matters early in an interior design project. When the direction is clear from the beginning, the materials, lighting, and overall feel have a much better chance of coming together in a way that feels natural and lasting.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

30/06/2026

How are your interior spaces affecting you and your wellbeing?

Style and aesthetics are often the first things people think of in interior design, but they are only part of it.

Layout, flow, lighting, scale, storage, and material choices all affect how a room functions and how it feels to live in. They can make a space feel calm, clear, and supportive, or awkward, unsettled, and harder to use than it should be.

That is why interior design is about more than appearance. A room needs to look right, function well, and support you.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

22/06/2026

Same kitchen design layout but with two different finish direction.

The joinery, proportions and overall layout are doing the same, but the feel and the mood of the space shifts quite a bit once the material direction changes.

This is why it helps to see a scheme visualisation before anything is built.

This could be sketch up drawings or photographic renderings like are used here.

They can really help give a clearer sense of what the space is actually moving towards, and makes the decisions easier to assess before they are locked in.

If this kind of visualisation would be helpful for your project or you’d like to book a consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

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Perth, WA
6000

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4am
Tuesday	10am - 4am
Wednesday	10am - 4am
Thursday	10am - 4am
Friday	10am - 4am

Website

http://kotodesigns.com/

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