About
ABOUT US
Sara (Johnson) is a self-confessed design magpie! She can’t help being attracted to beautiful things, old, new, big or small and can see beauty (or its potential!) in anything. She has an eye for colour and style, enjoys design and changing or enhancing interiors.
Sara loves working with her client to create a joyfully designed, cohesive space that reflects their personality and functional requirements. She calls this co-creation.
Sara’s diversity and eclecticism demonstrates she’s not wedded to particular styles, which she maintains is essential with such variety in interior design!
Choices can be overwhelming. Sara will gently and reassuringly guide you through these, helping you make the right choices to achieve a beautiful end result.
Sara makes design accessible, easy, enjoyable and fun and her creative energy is contagious. Couple all this to her experience and knowledge, her understanding of pricing, meeting budgets & critical timings, her ability to help take away the fear of making choices; and you can appreciate why she has a portfolio of happy clients.
Sara took her Art Foundation at Cambridge and went on to study Fashion Knitwear at Leicester, where she won a variety of prestigious UK design awards.
She started her career as a Fashion Buyer/ Range Selector for Marks & Spencer, selecting and buying the product ranges in departments throughout the business. She specialised in film character and licencing, working with all the major film studios to help develop creative ideas for use on the clothing and food ranges, before leaving to join a major M&S supplier as Design Director.
She went on to work for one of the biggest knitwear manufacturers in the World as UK Accounts Manager, where she helped retailers like The White Company, LK Bennett and White Stuff enter the knitwear market and grow their successful businesses. Her adaptability to move from product-to-product or style-to-style has been key to her success whilst her extensive exposure to budgets and costings means she fully understands pricing and the meaning of working to budget.
Wherever she was (she came back home to the Isle of Man 14 years ago) she found herself visualising how to improve, re-design or simply be wowed by the space she was in. She converted houses or old barns into beautiful homes along the way until she made the leap 3 years ago to set up her own interior design company on Island, calling it “MannInteriors”. She says she can finally indulge her interior design passion until her heart’s content and enjoy using all that travel time (off island for meetings) creatively!
