Experience

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  LimeGreen Sourcing Solutions

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Interior Design & Procurement Consulant & Head of Oak Sealing & Installation Division

    • Jul 2017 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Limegreen is a procurement business specialising in supplying top quality local and international floor and wall finishes to the building industry.We are passionate about creating awe-inspiring life and work spaces. From idea generation to concept, to planning and application, and finally installation. Each product that we use offers the best quality and is governed by the latest trends around the world. Whether you are fitting a small bathroom or refitting your entire home or work place, we select products that are best suited to the needs of our clients. We have key relationships with local and internatinal agents and factories, to ensure our products are of a high quality and competitively priced.Key clients: Virgin Active, SAOTA, Story Design Collective, W30, Inside Projects, Bergstreme.

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  Forest Flooring

  • 41 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town

  • Engineered Oak Flooring Sales Consultant

    • Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
    • 41 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town

    Forest Flooring & Decor is a premier flooring and furniture firm, with over 25 years' of experience in the timber and flooring industry. We are based in the design hub of Cape Town, Woodstock - a thriving design space of designers and architects.My mission is to help Home Owners, Architects, Designers and Developers with any timber aspects of their projects, playing a key-role with communication between all the necessary parties, adding design ideas wherever possible, quotations on tenders, and overseeing installations, providing a turn-key service. With solid knowledge and skills in planning and designing spaces, I am able to lead clients in right direction, when it comes to their choices in finishes and more structural joinery elements.I have an innovative mind, and understand how to work within a specified budget.I also play a key role in creating bespoke stains and oils that match to client samples. Working out stain formulas and cost calcuations as well as imparting technical knowledge to clients on the specifications of these sealants is vital in the specification process.Key clients: SAOTA, Bergstreme.

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  Hot Cocoa

  • Gardens, Cape Town

  • Interior & Furniture Designer

    • May 2015 - Sep 2015
    • Gardens, Cape Town

    Hot Cocoa is a high-end interior design practice, focusing on the residential and hotel market, providing a turn-key interior design service. This successful business is jointly owned and is based in Gardens, Cape Town.Working predominantly as the key furniture designer on all projects, I interact closely with our clients, suppliers and manufacturers, providing carefully crafted furniture design concepts, techincal drawings and 3D presentations, as well as overseeing the production of furniture and joinery pieces.Together with our clients, I provided feature furniture solutions perfectly suited for their space.My key role was to work closely with the Interior Design team, taking on the furniture and joinery aspect of projects, with my skills and knowledge in Interior & Furniture Design.With each project, I utilised my skill in detailed technical and 3D drawing, researched into key furniture designs and trends, as well as my own creative flair, to come up with original, innovative and practical design ideas.Clients: Mont Rochelle Manor, Cellars Hohenort Hotel, Ruyteplaats Estate

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  BAM Architects

  • Interior Designer

    • Jan 2014 - May 2015

    Bam Architects has successfully delivered innovative solutions for a wide variety of clientsthroughout South Africa for the last 23 years. Bam Architects are driven by a philosophy of uniquesolutions for each individual project, which is ultimately connected to context and function rather than per-determined stylistic ideologies. Assisting the architects with interior design concepts for the Virgin Active Chain, and in particular "Virgin Red" , my role incuded design conceptualisation, space planning, 3D models and presentations for client meetings, as well as sourcing finishes and creating storyboards. In addition to design development, I oversaw site installations and followed up on any necessary snags. Separately to this, I worked on Medi-clinic Panorama, assisting with the interior design of the main public areas. 3D presentations were created, as well as a mood and samples boards for presentations.Clients: Virgin Active Gym Chain, Mediclinic