Interior Designers Newcastle

Phone: 0415 701 188 | Newcastle, NSW

We create and install world-leading calming sensory rooms across Australia, that deliver long-lasting benefits. Our sensory rooms are purposefully designed spaces that stimulates and engages the visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory (smell) and proprioceptive (body awareness) senses to elicit therapeutic outcomes. Book a free 15-minute phone call today.

Dr Bliss Cavanagh is both an artist and an academic who challenges the ways our traditional built environment influences our experience of life. She is one of the world's leading experts in the design and benefits of calming sensory rooms.

As a university student, Bliss began creating sensory-based works to relieve her symptoms of Tourette's syndrome, a neurological disorder characterised by tics, which often triggers other conditions such as anxiety. Building her first multisensory environment had a profound impact on her life. She had never felt so calm and tic-free before.

But it wasn't just her. Others came to see the work - and their reactions were remarkable. Parents had never seen their kids so calm and engaged, Adults said they'd never felt so calm and happy at the same time.

That's when Bliss realised that she could design sensory spaces with an other-worldly, magical, 'wow' factor that helped both neurodivergent and neurotypical people. Indeed, she was so convinced that sensory rooms could benefit the general population that she decided to put her theory to the test by completing a PhD on the topic.

Bliss's PhD research investigated the health and wellbeing benefits of her innovative multisensory environments. It drew on the science and benefits of positive psychology, receptive arts engagement, restorative environments and multisensory interventions.
Published internationally, it proved the benefits of sensory spaces in the general population.

Since gaining her PhD, Bliss has worked on many major commissioned projects within mental health, disability, education, gallery and community settings to engage and resolve issues of accessibility, inclusivity, mental health and wellness.

In 2016, Bliss was selected as a Young Social Pioneer by the Foundation for Young Australians for her innovative work in this field.

We create and install world-leading calming sensory rooms across Australia, that deliver long-lasting benefits. Our sensory rooms are purposefully designed spaces that stimulates and engages the visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory (smell) and proprioceptive (body awareness) senses to elicit therapeutic outcomes. Book a free 15-minute....

Phone: (02) 4961 4783 | 152-160 Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW

Julie Evans Design

Julie Evans Design is a residential and commercial Interior Design and decorating studio serving the Newcastle, Hunter Valley, Lake Macquarie and Port Stephens areas. Our services include residential and commercial interior design, kitchen design, bathroom design, interior decorating, furniture and art sourcing, fixture and finish consulting and sourcing, interior and exterior colour consulting, 3D scaled rendering, BnB styling, shopping ride-alongs and custom mood board production. Our approach is different to most. The work we do with every client is unique and different. We don't provide a cookie cutter service and we don't roll out the same designs and style for every job. We listen to you, find your style then apply that to your space bringing function and aesthetics together in harmony.