Interior Services
As a creative design studio, our interior expertise extends from residential interiors to lifestyle accommodation, commercial interiors and editorial styling.
The Retreat Stylist’s expertise in project management ensures a balanced approach to every project, focused on aesthetics, functionality, and commercial outcomes.
Residential Interiors
Transform your home’s interior into a stylish retreat for relaxed family living and entertaining. Our detailed 5 step design process and collaborative planning will enable you to bring joy to your renovation journey, or refresh your interiors with curated furniture, art, and objects to bring your interior aspirations to life.
From designing beautifully considered and detailed interiors for a complete home refresh, to kitchens, bathrooms, cabinetry and furnishings, our concept to completion services include concepts, design development, drawings, documentation and specifications ready for implementation by your trusted team of professionals.
Interior Design and Styling : Sarah Elshaug for The Retreat Stylist. Photographer : Stephanie Rooney
Lifestyle Accommodation
The Retreat Stylist provides interior styling services for lifestyle accommodation property owners on the Mornington Peninsula and beyond so you can transform your property interior into a stylish retreat and become a thriving destination for style savvy holiday makers. Having grown up spending weekends on the family farm in Balnarring, Sarah understands the moods, luxury and natural beauty of this coastal region. Sarah collaborates with owners to create accommodation that offers instant coziness and personality, creating the impulse to exhale as soon as guests arrive.
Our local knowledge of the Mornington Peninsula and passion for being immersed in nature, along with branding and marketing expertise, provide clients with a unique end to end furniture styling and business branding solution to effortlessly create a successful retreat-style accommodation property that will capture the hearts of luxury holiday makers and deliver:
Interior Design and Styling : Sarah Elshaug for The Retreat Stylist. Photographer : Caitlin Mills
Commercial Interiors
With our unique marketing background plus interiors and styling skill set we are passionate creators of inspired commercial interiors. Sarah brings unique expertise to Commercial interior projects, with her business and brand mindset balancing creative aesthetics and functionality for clients. The essence and values of a client’s brand are captured in design outcomes to enhance the customer journey and brand loyalty.
We approach our commercial projects with business savvy by first digging deep to understand your brand, target market, values, budget and timeline constraints. We collaborate with you throughout the project to ensure we are innovative in our approach, with all concepts presented following thorough research, enabling us to uncover a unique creative intent that is effortlessly aligned with your brand.
A strong focus on Project Management including honouring budgets and timelines, engaging collaborative trades and makers and building trusting relationships with project partners through authentic and honest communication enables The Retreat Stylist to deliver exceptional commercial spaces that elevate brands and drive customer loyalty.
Interior design, furniture and lighting for Ballarat Women’s Clinic : Sarah Elshaug for The Retreat Stylist
Editorial Styling
With a unique blend of marketing, brand, project and event management skills, plus styling and decorating expertise, at The Retreat Stylist we are passionate about achieving well resolved brand, product or editorial campaigns that exceed your expectations.
Having gained valuable styling experience assisting Julia Green of Greenhouse Interiors whilst studying, Sarah has honed her eye for interior styling along with her design philosophy focusing on supporting Australian designers, artisans and makers, to create layered images loaded with texture, colour and personal touches for each client.
The Retreat Stylist editorial styling service enables you to capture beautiful images for your upcoming brand campaign. We understand the importance of capturing the essence of your brand in every shot and so collaborate closely with you to establish the brief, create a concept for each shot, source props to compliment your brand, scout the location and photographer and finally style and layer the perfect scene.
Sarah’s interior styling collaborations include editorial photo shoots for Home Beautiful, House and Garden, Real Living Magazine and Inside Out, as well as product campaign photo shoots for Australian brands such as Felix Furniture, Barnaby Lane, Merci Perci, Globe West, Eadie Lifestyle, Space to Create, Klaylife and Barefoot Gypsy.