Mary is a qualified residential interior designer and colour consultant specialised in crafting captivating, evocative spaces—interiors that feel personal and layered: pieces gathered over time and rooms that hold memory and meaning.

By truly understanding her client’s positive emotional aesthetics, and drawing on this to create a resonant emotional aesthetic narrative™, her work transforms homes into harmonious, storyful sanctuaries—blending an array of seductive natural materials with modern innovations, often sprinkled with artisan details, a touch of vintage charm, and a soupçon of soulful antique or heritage pieces—the result being delightful spaces characterised by what she terms “relaxed luxury” (read her journal piece on relaxed luxury).

With more than a decade of experience, Mary’s design approach is thoughtful and effective, offering bespoke solutions that enhance the everyday and lift the human spirit.

Her flair for distilling the unique essence of her clients and aligning her designs to meet their needs and desires ensures her creations are not only visually and emotionally appealing and enduring, but also promote measurable improvements in wellbeing—all so her clients can have the experience of meaningful connection, live in authenticity, timelessness and thrive. In short, have a home that feels good, looks good, is deeply personal, uplifting and long lasting.

As part of her repertoire of recognised design skills she is a strong proponent of advanced biophilic design principles, embracing life enhancing natural elements beyond the clichéd house plant and fifty shades of green, and is not only a colour consultant but a practitioner of advanced, applied colour and design psychology and holds a diploma in the internationally renowned Natural Colour System from the NCS Colour Academy—because both colour and design have a profound effect on how we feel, think and behave.

Mary Maldé’s signature style is neither maximalist nor minimalist, but what she terms Thrivalist®—rich in meaning, intention, appropriately tailored, balanced, and distinctly eclectic—weaving a broad spectrum of influences from English, Irish, European, Indian and East African heritage and more, as experienced through travel, art, architecture, the natural world, fashion and family

Mary’s commitment to excellence and her passion for crafting soulful, relaxed luxury that “brings you back home—to yourself and nature”, has cemented her place in this field of design.