Yeah, they all love colour, fabrics and beautiful things, but they actually do different jobs. 

Stylists style for magazines, TV, online and other visual media, as well as for homeowners, property developers and businesses (like ours!). They create beautiful spaces and scenes, not necessarily rooms, by either adding, editing or collating products and objects without making major structural alterations. 

Interior decorators are similar to stylists in terms of furnishing spaces with beautiful things, but they pay even closer attention to colour and fabrics, as well as flooring, window furnishings and how a space is planned. They may also work closely with building and design professionals such as architects and lighting and kitchen designers as part of bigger projects.   



Interior designers offer a broader range of services and have significantly more training. They specialise in the art and science of spatial design and interior architecture, and apply creative and technical solutions that are functional, attractive and beneficial to the occupant's life and culture. Interior designers often work closely with architects and are handy to have for major renos or new builds. Unlike decorators, designers may make structural changes to a home such as moving walls. 

At T&W, we have Stylists to create all our beautiful looks, as well as Interior decorators within our Trade & Commercial team to advise clients on their projects. 

"Stylists create vignettes and moments of delight, not always rooms. They're selling the dream, and helping us see it. Both decorators and designers (and also some stylists) can help with things like flooring and window furnishings, which can have a really big impact on the feel of a space."



"Imagine you cut off the top of your home and tipped it upside down. The things that would fall out - the furniture, objects, accessories, art - these 'temporary' items are what stylists work with. Decorators work with those things too, but add a layer that exists for a longer period; things like paint, wallpaper, custom upholstery, colour specifications for cabinetry and finishes. An interior designer works with structural elements that are intended for the long term. There is a lot of crossover and sometimes we are all three - the core difference being the permanence of our instalments, and the elements that we work with."