Meet The Team
PRINCIPAL DESIGNER
After an international advertising career Susannah followed her passion into residential interior design. Susannah graduated from Unitec’s interior design program and undertook an extensive 5 year apprenticeship for one of Aotearoa’s leading interior designers. Island Interior’s was established in 2018 drawing on her passion to create great designs, customer experience and professional service.
JUNIOR DESIGNER
Graduating in 2020 from Unitec’s interior design program Khafila is passionate about creating exceptional designs for our clients. Having previously worked in high end retail Khafila draws from this to deliver professional customer experience to our clients. She is practical and is key to the team working closely alongside both our clients and trades bringing our designs to life.
SHOWROOM & PRODUCTION MANAGER WAIHEKE
Karla has had an extensive career in production and project management. Karla has in depth knowledge of the industry and has close relationships with both our suppliers and trades. She has fantastic customer service skills and effectively manages a range of interior design projects. With fantastic attention to detail Karla is key to our team and our focus of delivering a quality professional experience to our clients.
SHOWROOM & PRODUCTION ASSISTANT WAIHEKE
Linda’s customer service, organisational and communication skills provide fantastic support to our clients and suppliers. She is the key point of contact in our showroom and also undertakes our window treatment measure and quote service. Maintaining timelines and delivery schedules Linda is both efficient and positive - committed to seeing our clients projects successfully completed.
ASSISTANT INTERIOR DESIGNER
Anna has a lot of love and experience in the interior design industry. Married to a builder, together they have renovated and built many houses together both on Waiheke and Auckland. Anna’s very successful PR career has given her many of the skills required to start of design journey and her practical experience building her own homes makes her a fantastic part of the Island Interiors team. Working with Susannah & Khafila, Anna works part time across all of our projects at every stage. We love her positive, anything is possible attitude and she is a great new addition to the team.
SHOWROOM MANAGER DEVONPORT
Olivia’s amazing communication and customer service skills makes her a fantastic asset for our Auckland based clients. Olivia’s positive attitude and experience in renovating historical homes provides a wealth of knowledge to our wonderful customers. Olivia undertakes all of our in home measures for Auckland based window treatment clients and can help with planning for the perfect solution every time.