About Us
With more of us spending time at home, some now even calling it our permanent place of work, it’s important it reflects our needs and is a place we’re happy to be in. That’s how Jemelma Designs began. I wanted to get more organised to cope with the home-schooling, two young kids and a husband who used to work in the big smoke and was now taking up permanent residency in the dining room! I needed to create a working and living space to reflect all our needs – that was when I started to focus on storage solutions and adapting the house to be more ‘user friendly’.
However, we’d just finished a major redecoration project throughout the entire ground floor so I was reluctant to it looking like an office and school with a creche attached. It needed to be a good looking, homely house. After all, I’d spent loads on home magazine subscriptions and torn out several hundred pages for a mood board (that never turned out to be big enough to house all the tear-outs). What I wanted, or more to the point, needed (for my sanity), was an ‘organised, attractive home’ with labels that were less what you’d find in flat-pack instruction manual, but instead more in keeping with the design of their surrounding decor, even so far as to say ‘pretty’…
Pic above of my first ever creation - sanity restored, soon
after I started Jemelma Designs
The bathroom was my first project. I had, almost overnight, become ‘bothered’ by the colour clash of the brands sat on the end of the bath tub – all the different logos and labels were ‘shouting at me’ all vying for attention, whilst all I wanted was to have a relaxing soak. Turning my attention to other areas of the house, I realised that I was surrounded by commercial branding and company 'waffle' on every food container, beauty product and alike. I realised I could turn these functional, dull objects into something much more appealing and cohesive to our home environment.
And there you have it, or should I say, here you have it. My website. My take on “functional just got beautiful”.
As you peruse this website, I hope you find something you like. And if you don’t, allow me to source or create it for you…something just for you. Unique. Bespoke. Mel x
