Interior designer · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch
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Interior designer · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch
Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words is a Christchurch Central City-based interior designer and freelance writer. Pip combines qualified interior design with a background in English literature and art history to create spaces focused on colour and texture. The practice emphasises personal storytelling through design and tailored written work, offering clients a bespoke, customer-centred creative service.
Pip Goldsbury | Quill Interiors & Words is a Christchurch Central City studio offering interior design and freelance writing. Pip is a qualified interior designer who also works as a regular contributor to NZ Life & Leisure and writes business copy and art reviews. The practice presents itself as a bespoke creative blending spatial design with written storytelling.
The services include interior design focused on colour, texture and pulling existing elements together, plus tailored writing for business and editorial contexts. Pip describes a background in English literature and Art History and lists experience across design, teaching, farming and sport as informing her approach. The combined offering aims to tell a client's story either through space or through words.
Customers commonly describe Pip as having a good eye and providing practical, thoughtful advice, and several reviews note an approachable, straightforward manner and strong guidance during renovations and refurbishments. Clients report emotional, positive reactions to completed projects and value Pip's role as a sounding board during decision-making. The review themes emphasise clarity of direction, aesthetic sensitivity and a collaborative client experience.
Locally, Quill positions itself as a small, personalised studio for clients seeking attentive design and customised written work in Christchurch. The practice's mix of interior design and freelance writing, together with a focus on texture and colour, is presented as the practical point of difference for customers looking for both spatial and narrative solutions.
Freelance writer and interior designer, Pip Goldsbury of Quill, offers a unique combination of services, a customer-centric creative who tells YOUR story, whether it's written or spatial. A regular contributor to NZ Life & Leisure, writer of business copy and reviewer of art, Pip's words are tailored to each individual situation. Don't expect ordinary. Pip's love of words and her background in English literature and Art History, combined with a healthy dose of sport, farming, mothering, design and teaching makes her approach to writing refreshingly approachable. As if telling written stories isn't enough, Pip is a qualified interior designer with a passion for colour and texture, telling your personal story through thoughtful design.
Pip helped us with our cottage refurb and we’re so glad we had her expert advice. She has such a good eye and guided us towards the right wallpaper, somehow knowing exactly what we were after but elevating it far beyond what we could have...
Thanks Andie - that’s really kind of you. You live in such a beautiful setting💕🍸
When we were renovating our very old house, I wanted someone as a sounding board. I didn’t need someone to choose paint colour or fabrics as I enjoyed that part of the process. But having Pip available to just call in and talk through thoug...
Thank you Sara - you’ve such great style so to be your soundboard was a real honour.
Located in Christchurch, New Zealand, Quill is a boutique interior design service. Personal, professional and passionate, we design your space to reflect ...
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