Growing up, home was never just a backdrop. It was something my parents actively made. Every year or two, sometimes more, there would be a refresh: a new room recoloured, furniture rearranged, a corner reimagined entirely. It wasn't restlessness. It was pride. They were two busy people with full lives and demanding jobs, yet they created a home that felt considered, layered and entirely their own. Warm. A little eclectic. Quietly full of thought.

The garden mattered just as much. My mother had a talent for planting that felt abundant but never chaotic, colour and structure woven together, things that looked after themselves through the seasons without looking like they did. You never saw the effort. You just felt the effect.

I didn't realise until much later how deeply that shaped me. After losing them both, I found myself drawn back to the idea of home in a way I hadn't expected. Not just as a place, but as something you build with intention. Somewhere that holds you. That makes you feel calm and safe and comfortable in a way nothing else quite can. That instinct became the foundation for StudioTeli.

It sits alongside twenty years of experience working across some of the world's most considered environments: luxury retail, international real estate, cultural institutions and design-led hospitality. Years spent writing about and travelling through homes, hotels and gardens across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. You develop an eye quickly when you spend enough time in exceptional spaces. You learn what makes a room feel right even before you can explain why.

The garden is never separate from that work. My parents understood this without ever framing it that way. The outside should continue the story that begins inside: the same restraint, the same materials, the same sense of ease. A well-designed garden doesn't demand attention. It gives something back every time you look at it.

StudioTeli works with people who want their home to feel like themselves. Not a showroom, not a mood board. A place that is calm, considered and genuinely theirs.