Canvas Interiors Ltd

31/10/2026

Shout out to .work for helping us create this custom wallpaper for 🔥

20/10/2026

Before I begin designing a bar, restaurant or hotel, I need to understand the community surrounding the site.

I walk the neighbourhood, check out the independent businesses and talk to the people who live and work there. I take in the street art, the music scene, the architecture and the things that give the neighbourhood its identity.

Wherever possible, I bring local artists and creatives into the process.

A venue that understands its surroundings and reflects parts of that community has a much better chance of connecting with the people it wants to attract.

The same thinking applies to the business itself. You’re becoming a part of a community and that community will play a huge part in your success or failure.

Good design doesn’t just occupy a space. It understands its place.

17/10/2026

I recently came across this promotional video we shot for during Covid.

A lot of time and planning went into it and then the pandemic struck. We had to decide whether to go ahead and adapt to the circumstances or delay and shoot once things settled down.

We decided to go ahead.

It’s quite emotional watching this now, all these years later and seeing how brave and resilient the team were and how the community continued to support their local pubs through such a scary and difficult time.

It reminds me what a wonderful industry we work in.

11/10/2026

The best design work is often the work you never notice.

Behind every well-designed hospitality space are hundreds of decisions most people will never see.

We’re thinking about how guests move through a space, how staff operate behind the scenes, where the practical details sit, and what needs to be resolved before it becomes an expensive problem to fix.

A lot of people think interior design is only about making places look great. The reality of hospitality design is creating spaces that work for the people using them, support the people running them, and protect the investment behind them.

Great hospitality design doesn’t just look effortless. It’s meticulously thought through from start to finish.

06/10/2026

When should you hire a hospitality designer?

Not after the layout.
Not after the builder’s quote.

Before any of it.

I often get contacted for projects after the plans have been drawn and the build has already been priced.

By then, many of the important decisions around my work have already been locked in without considering some of the following:

The customer journey.
How staff move behind the bar.
How the kitchen operates at peak times.

That’s not decoration. That’s the operating model.

Once construction is under way, fixing bad decisions gets expensive.

I make most of my design decisions based around how they impact revenue.

Hire a hospitality designer at step one.

Book a consultation if you’re planning a new venue or refurbishment and I’ll give you my honest opinion on your plans and how best you should move forward.

05/10/2026

Some projects teach you more than others.

The Greyhound was one of those projects for me.

The pub was rebuilt after it had been illegally demolished, and I was closely involved in the design and launch of the new space.

Being involved from the hospitality side as well as the design side gave me a clear understanding of something I still believe today:

A successful hospitality space can’t just look good. It has to function well too.

It needs to make sense for the customer, for the team, for the way the business operates and for the experience you’re trying to create.

That means thinking about things like layout, customer journey, seating, lighting, atmosphere and the details that customers might never consciously notice but absolutely feel.

That’s the kind of design work I specialise in today.

Working with hospitality owners to take an existing space or a new opportunity and turn it into something that looks distinctive, works properly and supports the business behind it.

The Greyhound was a big learning experience for me, and it’s still a project I’m proud to have been part of.

If you’re planning a new pub, restaurant, bar or hotel, or you’re considering a refurbishment and want experienced design input before you start making expensive decisions, book an initial design consultation with Canvas Interiors Ltd.

03/10/2026

The most expensive mistakes on a project often happen long before anyone notices them.

Not because someone made a bad decision but because a decision was never made in the first place.

The bar looks beautiful on the drawings
But the coffee machine, glasswasher and fridges all need power, drainage and water in completely different places.

The restaurant looks incredible. Then 80 people walk in and nobody can hear themselves speak.

By the time these things become apparent , they’re no longer design decisions but expensive problems.

This is one of the reasons experienced designers add far more value than simply choosing finishes, furniture and colours.

The difference between a good finish and an exceptional one is often in the details nobody ever sees.

Because they were considered before they became a problem.

03/10/2026

02/10/2026

Your contractor’s never worked a dinner service. Why’s he deciding where the food goes out?

A commercial kitchen isn’t just pipework and power points. It’s a production line in which every step needs to be timed and every surface placed for a reason. Get the layout wrong and your team will feel it every in single service: wasted steps, bottlenecks, chaos at peak time.

Unhappy team. Revenue lost every day.

Builders build to a drawing. We work alongside the business owner and Head Chef to create an ideal workflow then we design the kitchen.