My Beautiful Abode

About

We are an interior design and styling consultancy focused on helping people to make their homes beautiful inviting spaces. We work with people to create sanctuaries, the place where they’re comfortable and content, a place to welcome friends and family.

Key elements for a well-resolved interior include how your home feels, looks and is used. Our designing philosophy is to ensure each room is a practical and attractive space that utilises its unique features together with our client’s belongings and style.

Based in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, we work closely with a diverse range of clients to transform houses into beautiful homes. Our clients include architects, builders, owner-builders, renovators and homeowners, and our Design and Styling Menu provide a flexible array of options, from a full design service, or simply to clarify directions and support confident decision making during a potentially difficult time.

For over two decades, Sophie Kost, Director and Lead Designer of My Beautiful Abode has designed and styled interiors across Melbourne and rural Victoria.

Testimonials

Sophie was a pleasure to work with, and made the process easy by narrowing down the options for us to choose from. We are extremely happy with how the space has come together and the beautiful pieces she has recommended.

Kerrie

We engaged Sophie early last year when we planned to move houses. We were stressed with the whole covid situation and restrictions meant we really couldn’t travel to assess what we needed.

Sophie made the entire process easy and smooth. She gave us a lot of options, conceptualised the whole design, helped organise furniture, art work, beautiful indoor plants and lots of creative ideas to make the home look open and beautiful.

She is thorough, creative, and delivers on time with always a smile on her face. She is open to feedback and always keeps her clients in mind when she designs and makes decisions.

We continue to receive great feedback from friends and family.

Personally very happy with how beautifully she has designed my Yoga room. I get a lot of compliments for the space. Highly recommend.

Anu Srinivasan

We engaged Sophie early last year when we planned to move houses. We were stressed with the whole covid situation and restrictions meant we really couldn’t travel to assess what we needed.

She is thorough, creative, and delivers on time with always a smile on her face. She is open to feedback and always keeps her clients in mind when she designs and makes decisions.

We continue to receive great feedback from friends and family.

Personally very happy with how beautifully she has designed my Yoga room. I get a lot of compliments for the space. Highly recommend.

Anu Srinivasan

In 2018 we decided to engage with a professional consultant to update and freshen up our cape cod home. Sophie throughout the process has been amazing to work with. From paint, to furniture, window coverings, bathroom design and anything else that needed revamping! Sophie achieved our end result. Although our home just sold, everyone that came to inspections were so impressed by the colour scheme put together by Sophie. We will be using Sophie again in our up and coming project.

Marie Antonopoulos

This is the third time we have used Sophie’s services. She did such a wonderful job helping us set up our living area when we moved house a few years ago, that we rang her again when we wanted to make over teenage boys rooms (one last year and the final room over the past few months). On all 3 occasions she has been such a pleasure to work with and it is the reason we keep coming back. For our latest project we had the added complexity of working through the COVID lockdown and Sophie was wonderful at arranging trades and deliveries and doing remote consultations when necessary. We have been so delighted with the outcome of all 3 projects and had such wonderful feedback from friends and family. I would not hesitate to recommend Sophie.

Taniya Harrison

Sophie has helped to transform our home from run down, cluttered, dated and mismatched into a bright, character-filled, cohesive living space that we enjoy every day. Without Sophie's guidance, we would have been paralysed by indecision and would never have achieved the dramatic makeover that she has overseen. I appreciated Sophie's practical and commonsense approach to choosing affordable items that would not only look the part and be comfortable, but also be durable for heavy use in a family with 2 boys. Thank you Sophie for all your help.

Cheryl Cai

Sophie was brilliant. She contacted us almost straight away and came to our house on a public holiday. Her ideas were amazing and she was very patient with us as we went back and forward over decisions. What was really appreciated was the understanding that we could explore different finishes for different rooms at a pace that suited us. Would highly recommend and use Sophie again.

Ros

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