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JLV Design is an interior design studio in Muswell Hill, North London. Founder Joséphine Lecoufle-Vinet offers hourly design consultations, room design schemes, colour advice, bespoke joinery design, home styling and staging, and full-scale design, sourcing and project management for renovations and extensions. Her style is French modern, with an English twist.

It depends on the scope. You can book an hourly consultation, a fixed design scheme for a room, or full design and project management. On Houzz, the typical job cost for JLV Design is £1,500 to £50,000. You will receive a clear quote after a first conversation about your home.

Yes. JLV Design works within your budget, whether it is a single room makeover or a whole new home. Joséphine offers options across a range of price points, re-uses good existing furniture, sources vintage pieces and suggests refinishing instead of replacing — for example, spray-painting a kitchen rather than buying a new one.

We are based in Muswell Hill, N10, and work across North London, including Crouch End, Highgate, East Finchley, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Alexandra Palace, Harringay, Stoke Newington, Southgate, Arnos Grove, Barnet, East Barnet, Enfield, Borehamwood and Willesden. Online consultations are available anywhere in the UK.

Yes. Online consultations work by video call: you share photos, rough measurements and inspiration images, and Joséphine gives advice on layout, colour and furnishings. They suit clients outside North London or with busy diaries — one recent client in Scotland said the online sessions finally made the whole space work.

Yes, and often do. JLV Design has collaborated with architects including Nikki Blustin, Johanna Ahrberg Jackson and Enbee Architecture + Design. The architect leads the structure, while we handle colours, materials, lighting, joinery and furniture, and coordinate measurements, orders and questions with your builder and decorators.

On full design projects, yes. JLV Design handles measurements, orders, deliveries and coordination with contractors and trusted suppliers, and can introduce reliable trades such as kitchen designers, flooring specialists, curtain makers and carpenters. Clients often say this is what takes the stress out of a renovation.

Yes. Colour is at the heart of our work. A colour consultation gives you a room-by-room scheme with named paint shades, finishes and wallpaper suggestions, chosen for the light in each room and how you use it. Rooms stay distinctive while the whole house flows together.

Yes. We design made-to-measure media units, bookcases, alcove cupboards, shelving, wardrobes and eaves storage, and produce drawings your carpenter can build from. We do not build joinery ourselves, but we can recommend carpenters we trust and answer their questions during the build.

Of course. Many schemes start with pieces you already own. On a Victorian house near Alexandra Palace, most of the clients’ furniture was kept, and in New Barnet we retained curtains and wallpapers and added second-hand 1960s finds. Good design is about editing, not replacing everything.

Yes. We have styled a deep-retrofit low-carbon house in Muswell Hill and refurbished a Finsbury Park flat using eco-minded paint, materials and panelling. Wherever possible we re-use, refinish and buy vintage or second-hand, which is kinder to both the planet and your budget.

A consultation is a single session, while a room scheme depends on how many rooms and decisions are involved. Larger renovations follow the build: several of our extension projects in Crouch End and Muswell Hill ran for about a year from early planning to final styling. We will agree a realistic timeline at the start.

Home staging means preparing a property for sale or let so buyers can picture living there: decluttering, re-arranging furniture, and adding art, lighting and soft furnishings. JLV Design offers home styling and home staging across North London, and the same skills help newly renovated homes feel finished.

Our studio hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm; we are closed at weekends. Call 07964 164799, email contact@jlv-design.co.uk, send a WhatsApp message, or book a consultation online. We are based at 17 Marriott Road, Muswell Hill, London N10 1JJ.

Joséphine has more than 20 years of design experience and has won Best of Houzz 11 times for client satisfaction and design. JLV Design holds a 5.0 rating from 125 Houzz reviews and 5.0 on Google. Clients consistently praise her colour sense, calm organisation and listening.