Reflections on 2025
A year of Interior Design, Moving with Intent.
As we welcome a new year, it is the perfect time to take a moment to pause and reflect on the work delivered over the past twelve months. At Design by UBER, 2025 was defined not only by reinvention, but by progression. It was a year well spent, refining our approach, strengthening our process and delivering complex projects to our clients with ease, clarity, consistency and care.
A moment to pause and reflect
Throughout the year, the studio has worked across a variety of high-value private residences and large-scale commercial environments, both within the UK and Internationally. Across every ambition, our guiding principle has remained the same: intelligent spatial planning, material integrity, design solutions that are both enduring and deeply personal. January invites a moment for consideration, to acknowledge progress, marking meaningful growth across sectors, highlighting the evolution of our footprint, and a reaffirm our company values of: discretion, craftsmanship, and design that endures.
Our work in 2025 reflects a studio that is confident in its process and selective in its decisions. We continue to prioritise quality, longevity and relevance over trend-led design.
Simon Evans, Managing Director
Residential Highlight: The Copper
This Private Residence Project offered the opportunity to transform into a stately residence that both commands its views and honours the surrounding heritage architecture. From the earliest design stages, we collaborated closely with the architects to ensure a seamless fusion of interior spaces and structural intent.
Award-winning, The Copper represents a benchmark project within the studio’s residential portfolio.
Our brief was clear: create a home that could cater to both grand entertaining and intimate family life. The Arts and Crafts-inspired property demanded a balance of openness and warmth, with flowing spaces softened by neutral, sophisticated palettes. Original formal sitting areas were reimagined into social hubs: a large bar, clusters of seating, and a lavish leisure suite.
Key areas were conceived with both circulation and experiential impact in mind: From the entrance hall, double pocket doors usher guests into a space that feels simultaneously inviting and dramatic.
Master Bedroom Suite
Following upstairs, the master suite functions as a private retreat, combining high-end hotel-inspired spatial planning with practical living requirements. Separate his-and-her dressing rooms, dual en-suite bathrooms, and a bespoke breakfast station provide autonomy and ease of use, while architectural detailing and aged brass accents reinforce cohesion and understated luxury.
Dressing Room
Throughout, scale, proportion, and detailing were leveraged to embed character rather than ornamentation. The result is a home that is grounded, considered, and entirely usable where every architectural intervention, material choice, and spatial decision reinforces both beauty and functionality.
Commercial Highlight: Vue Cinemas, Ultra Lux Mini-Cinemas
One of the studio’s most significant commercial collaborations in 2025 was with Vue Cinemas on the design of their Ultra Lux Screen Experience mini-cinema concept. Conceived as a premium tier within the Vue brand, the brief centred on creating an intimate, elevated cinema experience that balances hospitality-led comfort with technical performance and durability. Each auditorium was designed to feel curated and personal, with reduced seating capacities, refined material palettes, warm ambient lighting and carefully considered acoustics. Beyond the screening rooms, the experience is anchored by premium social spaces including a dedicated.
Commercial Cinema Bar
Key design moments include backlit laser-cut metal panels, subtle ombré lighting effects and a striking orange onyx feature behind the bar. Much of the furniture and joinery was custom-designed to ensure longevity within a high-use commercial environment. Delivered through a highly collaborative and largely remote process, the project demonstrates the studio’s ability to manage complex international commissions with clarity and precision.
Location Highlights: Never seen before
Throughout 2025, the studio continued to work with private clients across the UK while expanding into new regions, including the outskirts of Glasgow, Yorkshire Dales and West Midlands and selective London commissions. These projects reflect our ability to respond sensitively to varied architectural contexts while maintaining a consistent level of detail, rigour and delivery.
International Design Award: Finca Cortesin, Spain
This coastal villa, perched along the sun-drenched shores near Malaga, offered an opportunity to reimagine a primary residence in Cheshire through an international lens. Our work was recognised with the top International Design Award this year winning the Residential Interior Design for Spain. The brief focused on refining the original interiors and reworking the lighting strategy to create a calm, Mediterranean environment rooted in its setting.
Natural materials, organic forms and locally sourced elements were used throughout, with a restrained palette of soft whites, greens and coastal blues. The result is an interior that felt grounded, understated and quietly luxurious. Maintaining the villa’s regional integrity, we created a space that was both calming and sophisticated for our client. Subtle pops of colour, from cushions to artwork, evoke the Mediterranean coastline, while bespoke furnishings and textured fabrics ensure a tactile, intimate experience.
UK Private Residence Award: Liston Farmhouse, Staffordshire
The two-phase transformation of Liston Farmhouse was recognised with a Private Residence Award at the International Property Awards. The project involved a complete reconfiguration of the upper floor, followed by the redesign of the main living spaces. Transforming the barn conversion from a heavy, dated interior into a serene, functional country home.
Before & After
Wine cellar transformation
Even the wine cellar became a dramatic, theatrical showpiece, marrying practicality with luxurious theatrics. A standout feature of the project is the bespoke marble dining table, commissioned specifically for the farmhouse and crafted as a sculptural centrepiece. Designed to anchor the main entertaining space, it exemplifies the studio’s commitment to material integrity, proportion and one-of-a-kind craftsmanship. Ultimately balancing modern comfort with rural character.
Reconfiguration for fluidity
The master suite emerged as a vaulted, light-filled sanctuary with dual dressing rooms and a marble-clad en-suite, while living areas were reconfigured for flow, with herringbone flooring, bespoke joinery, and harmonious neutral palettes that breathe new life into once-overlooked spaces.
Team Growth and Milestones
In 2025, the studio expanded internationally with new team members joining us in South Africa and the Philippines. This growth strengthened our operational capacity while allowing us to maintain a hands-on, detail-driven design process across multiple time zones.
Internally, we invested in studio development, software training and digital platforms, enhancing workflow efficiency and client experience. Parallel development of our sister brand, UBER Interiors , further strengthened our offering across complementary sectors, expanding the studio’s capability while maintaining the same commitment to quality, discretion and design excellence.
Media & Recognition
Design by UBER was featured in the Channel 5 documentary The Omaze Dream House. filmed at our Knutsford showroom and across live sites featuring our Gleneagles project, exploring the story behind super-prime luxury homes and the thinking behind their design.
Throughout the year, Design by UBER featured prominently in The Cheshire Magazine, contributing editorial insight and project-led storytelling that reflects the studio’s position within the region’s luxury design landscape. Our work was also featured in publications including House Beautiful, Homes & Gardens, HELLO! and Cheshire Living, reinforcing our position within the luxury residential and premium commercial sectors.
Internationally, attendance at the China International Furniture Fair in Guangzhou allowed the studio to engage directly with emerging technologies, materials and global manufacturing innovation.
Innovative Design, Craft and Trusted Relationships
Much of our work exists beyond the public eye. Highly confidential private residences protected under NDA form a significant portion of our portfolio. In these projects, design excellence is measured not by visibility, but by resolution.
Our designers work holistically, integrating architecture, interiors, lighting and bespoke detailing into a cohesive language. Attention is given to proportion, junctions, material transitions and how spaces evolve throughout the day.
Long-standing relationships with specialist suppliers, craftspeople and manufacturers underpin this process. These trusted partnerships allow us to develop bespoke solutions with confidence while maintaining discretion and quality at every stage. This commitment extends beyond the studio. In 2025, Simon and Niall undertook multiple sourcing trips, including two visits to Verona to select specialist marbles, alongside tile sourcing journeys across Spain. These direct relationships with quarries and manufacturers ensure material decisions are informed, intentional and grounded in provenance.
Where full project exposure is not possible, we choose to share fragments instead. A hand-finished surface, a carefully resolved junction, a bespoke furniture piece. These details speak quietly but clearly about the calibre of a home.
Where full project exposure is not possible, we choose to share fragments instead. A hand-finished surface, a carefully resolved junction, a bespoke furniture piece. These details speak quietly but clearly about the calibre of a home.
Looking ahead to 2026
Upcoming Projects and New Locations
As we move into 2026, the studio continues to work across new residential and commercial projects throughout the UK, including the West Midlands, alongside ongoing international commissions. While much remains confidential, the year ahead promises a diverse range of work across private residences, hospitality and experiential environments.
Design Trends for 2026
Luxury interior design continues to move away from visual severity towards spaces that feel grounded, tactile and deeply human. Warm, nuanced palettes, layered natural materials and an increased focus on craftsmanship define this shift. Functionality, wellness integration and a sense of lived-in refinement are increasingly prioritised over scale or formality.
Refining Our Vision and Values
“As a studio, our commitment remains unchanged. We prioritise craftsmanship, longevity and thoughtful innovation. We do not subscribe to disposable, trend-driven design. Instead, we continue to create interiors that are contextually grounded, materially honest and designed to endure.”
Jim Evans, Technology and Marketing Director
Celebrating new beginnings and continued growth!
We enter the new year with gratitude. To our clients, collaborators, suppliers and team, thank you for your trust, expertise and commitment. Every project is the result of shared values, rigorous process and mutual respect.
As we continue to grow, our focus remains clear: to design spaces that feel effortless yet deeply considered, to operate with discretion and integrity, and to deliver work that stands the test of time. We look forward to what 2026 will bring.
