About
Wax & Wane Interiors creates homes that work with the way you sense the world. Through personalised mood boards, digital guides, and a curated directory of independent makers, I help people who are craving stillness — and those whose sensory temperament needs a little more from their surroundings — design spaces that are beautiful, intentional, and deeply calming to live in.
Your home, your senses, your pace.
Wax & Wane Interiors was born from a simple but deeply held belief: that the home we live in and the way we sense the world are not separate things. They are profoundly, intimately connected — and when they work together, something shifts. Life becomes a little easier. A little quieter. A little more like it should be.
I am a military wife and mother to three small children, living the nomadic, beautiful, occasionally chaotic life that comes with it. We move often. We adapt constantly. And we do all of it alongside Maggie — our senior tuxedo cat, who rules the household with considerable authority, a love of laser pens, and an unwavering devotion to little chicken biscuits.
My background is perhaps an unlikely route into interiors. A degree in Business and Economics from Exeter, a master’s in International Relations, years spent across the public, private, and charity sectors — and then, as so often happens, life led me somewhere I had not expected, yet perhaps with hindsight I should have seen coming.
Two of my three children experience sensory processing differences. Their world is heightened, loud and requires movement and weight to enable them to find their place comfortably within it.
Our home has borne the evidence — the furniture that has been broken, drawn on, stained beyond rescue. The persistent jumping, rolling, crashing our home takes on a moment-to-moment basis. My own sensitive nervous system pushed quietly to its limit, day after day.
I knew there had to be a way to bring it all together. To make a home that worked — not just looked beautiful, but actually felt right for every sensory soul living within it.
So, in 2023 I retrained with the British College of Interior Design, completing a Diploma of Professional Interior Design. Not to start again, but to give shape and language to something I had been learning, slowly and often painfully, for years.
My own design instincts lean toward the traditional and the timeless. Raw wood and stone. Natural linen and cotton. Colour palettes that are quiet and low in visual demand, because my own senses ask that of me. But what I love most — genuinely love — is sitting with someone else's sensory world entirely. Hearing the colours they are drawn to, the textures that feel safe, the light they need in a room. And then watching them settle into a home that finally, completely, feels like theirs.
I care deeply about where things come from. The products and textiles I recommend are chosen for their quality, their longevity, and the ethics behind them — B-Corp certified where possible, small and independent businesses I am proud to support. I want the things we bring into our homes to be beloved for decades. Not fast fashion. Not disposable. Chosen with intention and kept with care.
And I believe, with everything I have, that a home does not need to be pristine to be beautiful. Ours is full of real life — the pen marks, the Paw Patrol stickers, the spills that didn't quite come out. The value of a home is not what it cost. It is what it holds. The way it grows and shifts alongside the people living in it, accumulating all that quiet emotional weight that no price tag could ever measure.
That is what good design protects.
Charly
