Love Living

sara love : design consultant
architecture interiors design

creative design solutions
personal consultations and services
group workshops

Sara Love specializes in altering existing spaces
through event styling, exhibition & set design,
interior design and sustainable retrofitting.

She has followed a path from history of art
& design through an Interior Design HND,
a BA Hons in Architecture and is now currently
in her final year of the Masters in Architecture.
These have trained skills in research, drawing,
modelmaking, & computer rendering whilst providing
a solid background in context, theory & composition.

With over fifteen years experience in award-winning
retail and restaurant establishments such as Tra Vigne
in California's Napa Valley, Dekko, Still and Avoca in Belfast,
her experience comes enriched with a unique perspective
in high end customer relations and attention to detail whilst thriving in fast-paced and demanding environments.

For almost ten years Sara has assisted PLACE gallery
and architecture centre to hang and host countless exhibitions
varied in style and substance. This work has led to delivering
talks and workshops on exhibition design
with University of Ulster Architecture Students.

Other freelance activities include music video set design
for the Beat Carnival's 'Celebrate' with David Lyttle
and also for Katie and the Carnival's 'Dinosaurs'
which also featured as an interactive exhibition at Oh Yeah
Music Centre as part of the 13th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.

Other set design has gone behind theatre scenes to
decorate a Havana Style Bar and New York Newstand
for Guys and Dolls at the Theatre at the Mill
and the Jewish Gravestones for Fiddler on the Roof
both for New Lyric Operatic Company

Architectural work includes the complete reworking
of a vacant heritage warehouse at 52 Hill Street
in the highly sought after Cathedral Quarter
for Flow Studio Belfast and Blick Shared Studios.
This project involved designing and supervising
all contractors to combine modern underfloor heating,
thermostatic control additions to existing radiators,
additional ceiling insulation and retrofitting
the original window frames with double glazing.

Quirky interior design features were also designed
and supervised such as the glazed doors as clerestory windows, flexible pallet furniture and the dictionary wallpaper that have complemented the warehouses’ original materials and features.

Her recent dissertation on the Rebirth of the High Street researches the evolution of the high street as a backdrop for the potential to sustainably retrofit vacant commercial premises as catalysts for social cohesion. This analysis has gained momentum in the form of guided walks, talks and many cross-discipline collaborations and has been published by the NIEA in a collection of investigations into the reuse of existing built heritage in Belfast. .

With QUB Masters of Architecture Sara has participated
in sustainable research, design & construction of aquaponic systems and the 1950’s warehouse conversion into an urban farm
for The Biospheric Foundation located in Salford, Manchester,
funded and promoted by Manchester International Festival.
Other masters research has been gained through the
Future Cities project by designing sustainable strategies
for Belfast City Council with the Technology Strategy Board.

Sara wishes to continue creating stimulating environments,
through the spaces we live, work and play within and around, culminating in vibrant communities, cities and cultures.