Pauline McPhersonInterior Design
A living room under a cedar-lined raked ceiling, with a circular timber pendant, a dark veined stone fireplace, a timber screen wall to one side and pale oak flooring throughout.

Thoughtful design for the way you live

Interior design for Auckland homes, from the first conversation through to the final cushion. We help you make confident decisions, avoid expensive mistakes, and end up with a home you genuinely love living in.

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Whether you are building, renovating, or refreshing a single room, we are here to make the design decisions easy.

Plenty of people find the idea of engaging an interior designer intimidating, and with so many suppliers and trades to choose between it is easy to feel overwhelmed. Good design should not feel like that.

Our job is to interpret your ideas and translate them into a home that works the way you live. We get to know you through a project, and the goal is always the same: spaces that are beautiful, elegant, and still right in ten years.

Where are you starting from?

Private clients

Your own home

Renovating, building, or reworking a room that has never quite functioned. We guide the decisions, coordinate the trades and suppliers, and stay involved through to the finish.

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Multi-unit and development

Consistent interior specification across multiple dwellings, delivered to programme. We hold the material language together while varying the detail unit to unit.

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Selected projects

All projects
A street elevation of a terrace of duplex homes in white brick and dark vertical cladding, with balconies, palms and dense planting along the frontage.Concept visualisation

Mission Bay Villas

Multi-unit, Duplex
A low black-clad house with cedar detailing, set in tussock and native planting, with the lake and mountains behind it.

Wanaka House

New Build
A bar with black cabinetry and a brass-framed glass shelf of glassware above, set against deep green stacked tile with brass tapware.

Kohimarama 2

Renovation
A custom oak kitchen seen wide, with a marble peninsula on a fluted timber base, stools alongside and a raked, tongue-and-groove ceiling above.

Herne Bay

Renovation
An ensuite lined in dark stone, with a freestanding bath set below a window looking out across city rooftops, and the bedroom visible beyond.

Ponsonby

New Build, Apartment
A kitchen and dining space with oak cabinetry, a white stone island on a fluted base, three stools alongside and glazing to the garden beyond.

Eastern Bays

Multi-unit, New Build
A white dining room with a beaded chandelier above a pale table and wishbone chairs, French doors folded open to the swimming pool and lawn beyond.

Kohimarama 1

Renovation
A two-storey home at twilight in pale brick and dark vertical cladding, its windows lit from within, with a glass balustrade and steps to the entry.

Browns Bay

Infill, New Build

Pauline was able to open our eyes to the possibilities of what we could create. Pauline supported us through each step of the process and when we had to make key decisions in the design.

Bart and Mattie

Twenty years of thoughtful design

Pauline McPherson Interior Design has been working with New Zealand homeowners since 2005, across projects of every size from a single room through to full renovations and new builds.

What we care about has not changed. We want you to feel confident in your decisions, comfortable through the process, and proud of the home at the end of it.

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Let's talk about your home

Every good project starts with a conversation. Tell us a little about what you are planning and we will be in touch.

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