Designed for Life – Series Overview
Leading international interior designer Arlene McIntyre works with different sized homes, different sized budgets, different sized personalities and different design challenges to show that design is not only accessible – but can enhance how we live in our homes.
We demand more from our spaces now than ever before. Light, furnishing, colour, texture can all have huge impact. When a room is both functional and beautiful, it enriches our lives.
Arlene is hugely passionate about design and the transformative effects it can have. She is confident that regardless of scale or budget, universal design principles can transform problematic pads into heavenly homes.
Each episode deals with the transformation of one property. Arlene meets the clients, hears their aspirations and their budget. The series follow the interior design process of creating bespoke solutions for each of the homeowners.
Every week features a Tips section presented by Arlene’s charismatic Project Manager, Spaniard Zara Leon. Tips like colour choices, fabric selection, upcycling and furniture layout will provide great takeaway advice.
The series covers a diverse range of properties from a small urban apartment to a detached riverside house, a period home, to a redbrick terrace house and finally an unusual property with a retail unit on the ground floor that is being transformed into a family home.
The series will be broadcast on Tuesday nights at 8.30pm starting on 12th October
About Arlene
Arlene McIntyre is the Creative Director of Ventura Design, which she founded in 2005. Ventura Design is among the country’s most prestigious interiors and bespoke furniture company.
Arlene has two showrooms in Dublin, one in London and one opening soon in Portugal. She’s a much sought after interior designer and has collaborated with Trinny Woodall and also Paul Costello on his first bespoke furniture range. She has a growing list of celebrity clients, designing Vogue William’s new house in Ireland and Milly MacIntosh’s in London. Arlene is also the talent behind the revamp of the wonderful Luttrellstown Castle.
Her Californian heritage and the luxurious West Coast aesthetic is mirrored frequently in Arlene’s work.
About Zara
Zara Leon will present interior design tips each week. 33-year old Zara is a native of Zafra, a town north of Seville. Two years after graduating with a Masters from Seville University, Zara came to work with Arlene in Dublin. Zara’s passion for interior design is clearly evident in the Tips section of the programme.
EPISODE 1
This week the Smyth family in Clontarf call on Arlene McIntyre to transform their unused ‘dump room’ into a functional and stylish home office and their living room with its acorn patterned wallpaper into a relaxing adult space. Arlene uses creative solutions to transform the rooms into luxurious, stylish and useable spaces.