Joanna is the founder of Indigo Eight Creative, based in Ramsgate and covering the whole of Kent. An interior designer with 30 years of experience working within all aspects of interiors, Joanna’s favourite projects are residential, ranging from individual rooms to whole houses. She has a love of meeting and working with homeowners who want to live in beautiful homes that reflect their own personalities and she works hard to get to know her clients and how they’d like their homes to feel before setting about with the design.
Joanna’s love of interiors and construction started early when her father, who’s an architect and builder, completely rebuilt their house. The project took most of her childhood from 6 to 20 years old and every weekend was spent working on the site (or home as her family called it) alongside the builders.
Having studied at Winchester Art School her love of colour and texture led to a freelance textile design career for interior design companies, which ran alongside a long career working with IKEA, starting with designing room-sets and working her way up to training the design teams and large-scale project management of the design and build of new stores.
In 2009 Joanna started Indigo Eight which has since taken her around the world working with various interior design companies in senior interior design and creative direction roles; the highlight of which was 5 years living in Shanghai in China and becoming Creative Director of an interior design brand in a role which involved training over 100 designers to design in a western style for the eastern market. Probably the most challenging 5 years of her life!
She has now returned to her home on the South East coast and very much enjoys working on projects in Kent and the South East of England.
Jo really delivered more than I was expecting. She really listened to what I wanted and designed something that worked for me. I really enjoyed the whole process. Jo was so happy to help every step of the way and provided all the information I need to work with the contractors. Hope to work with her again in the future
Michelle
Jo has been an absolute asset so far in our project, she has helped us extensively to space plan our two new homes in a commercial development and has been organised and diligent, proactively helping us to manage our own planning and time! Jo has been invaluable with her technical knowledge and expertise and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her to anyone else looking for help with space planning or interior design projects.
Houzz User
Jo has really transformed our house into a beautiful home. She has managed to guide us from a ‘safe, neutral paint colour choice’ to being bolder and prepared to take risks with colour choice style and design. Jo was recommended to us when we had a house fire, which although was terrible gave us the opportunity to remodel and completely redesign the interior. Jo has helped re configure the room layout, storage, lighting, soft furnishings and so much more. She has supported the builders throughout the project with very detailed packs to ensure the build has gone smoothly. Our home now flows beautifully and reflects our personalities. We love it !
Jane Keet
We are building a modern single-story dwelling in our back garden. All was going well up until the first fix when it became painfully obvious that we were out of our depth when it came to space planning, the placement of electrical sockets & switches, and the finish we would like to achieve in terms of interior design & style. Jo was recommended to us by a lighting designer for the electrical socket and switch placements. We sent Jo the architect's plans and after a video meeting with Jo, Jo visited us at our new build site to review our needs and to look at the new building. Jo reviewed the architect's plans and made practical suggestions changing several room sizes, wall positionings, a...
David Darwood
This is our second time working with Jo and we couldn't have done our renovation without her! She went above and beyond for us in every aspect and we are extremely grateful for her support and advice throughout. She is not only an excellent interior designer, but a lovely, approachable person with vast experience and knowledge. We have thoroughly enjoyed working with her and couldn't recommend her highly enough.
Georgette
Jo really delivered more than I was expecting. She really listened to what I wanted and designed something that worked for me. I really enjoyed the whole process. Jo was so happy to help every step of the way and provided all the information I need to work with the contractors. Hope to work with her again in the future
Michelle
Jo has been an absolute asset so far in our project, she has helped us extensively to space plan our two new homes in a commercial development and has been organised and diligent, proactively helping us to manage our own planning and time! Jo has been invaluable with her technical knowledge and expertise and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her to anyone else looking for help with space planning or interior design projects.
Houzz User
Jo has really transformed our house into a beautiful home. She has managed to guide us from a ‘safe, neutral paint colour choice’ to being bolder and prepared to take risks with colour choice style and design. Jo was recommended to us when we had a house fire, which although was terrible gave us the opportunity to remodel and completely redesign the interior. Jo has helped re configure the room layout, storage, lighting, soft furnishings and so much more. She has supported the builders throughout the project with very detailed packs to ensure the build has gone smoothly. Our home now flows beautifully and reflects our personalities. We love it !
Jane Keet
We are building a modern single-story dwelling in our back garden. All was going well up until the first fix when it became painfully obvious that we were out of our depth when it came to space planning, the placement of electrical sockets & switches, and the finish we would like to achieve in terms of interior design & style. Jo was recommended to us by a lighting designer for the electrical socket and switch placements. We sent Jo the architect's plans and after a video meeting with Jo, Jo visited us at our new build site to review our needs and to look at the new building. Jo reviewed the architect's plans and made practical suggestions changing several room sizes, wall positionings, a...
David Darwood
This is our second time working with Jo and we couldn't have done our renovation without her! She went above and beyond for us in every aspect and we are extremely grateful for her support and advice throughout. She is not only an excellent interior designer, but a lovely, approachable person with vast experience and knowledge. We have thoroughly enjoyed working with her and couldn't recommend her highly enough.
Georgette
Jo really delivered more than I was expecting. She really listened to what I wanted and designed something that worked for me. I really enjoyed the whole process. Jo was so happy to help every step of the way and provided all the information I need to work with the contractors. Hope to work with her again in the future
Michelle