26th December 2025 | IN HEALTHCARE & WELLNESS | BY SBID Share Tweet Pinterest LinkedIn There are few sectors where interior design carries as much weight, emotionally, functionally and socially, as it does in the care home environment. These are not transient spaces. They are homes for people in the final chapter of their lives, places where dignity, identity and wellbeing must be nurtured through design as skilfully as they are through care. The Care Home Interiors Company Yet for far too long, care environments have been shaped by compromise: catalogue solutions, institutional furniture, and layouts that prioritise efficiency over humanity. At The Care Home Interiors Company, they design with a different question in mind: How can interiors actively support living, ageing and thriving? The Care Home Interiors Company Elizabeth Gardens is a flagship collaboration with Porthaven Care Homes and exemplifies what becomes possible when a project is shaped by ambition, innovation and deep respect for the people who will inhabit it. It represents a new design vocabulary for care, one that embraces emotional warmth, practicality and craftsmanship in equal measure. The Care Home Interiors Company Care environments require details that go far beyond aesthetics. They need to soothe, to orientate, to enable. They must feel familiar but never clinical, elegant but never intimidating. Because of this, their role as interior designers extends far beyond design. The Care Home Interiors Company As designers and manufacturers, they produce what the space demands rather than what a catalogue dictates. A recessed bookcase that softens a long corridor. A built-in alcove seat that turns an unused corner into a place of cosy connection. Joinery that feels domestic, not institutional. Furniture scaled for safety, dignity and independence. The Care Home Interiors Company These bespoke interventions matter because: – They are tailored to the building’s footprint – They maximise every inch of space – They create familiar, homely features rather than institutional add-ons – They withstand the realities of daily life in care settings – Above all, they are designed with the resident experience at the heart This ability to design and manufacture cohesively allows us to shape care environments that genuinely feel like home, places grounded in comfort, belonging and emotional reassurance. Elizabeth Gardens stands as a testament to the power of purposeful interior design. A home that blends luxury with warmth, sophistication with softness, and beautiful detailing with practical enablement. More than a completed project, it represents the belief that the care sector deserves design excellence, not as an added luxury, but as a fundamental component of wellbeing. The Care Home Interiors Company Elizabeth Gardens is a home where residents feel proud to live, where families feel instantly welcomed, and where care teams are supported through thoughtful layout, lighting and spatial planning. It challenges assumptions. It elevates experience. It proves that care environments can be both functional and inspiring. Design empowers; its impact is immediate. About Care Home Interiors Since 2001, Kerry Southern-Reason has led The Care Home Interiors Company, a multi-award-winning team of designers, craftsmen, and installers, delivering exceptional design. With over 102 years of combined expertise, the team is dedicated to creating distinctive, comfortable, and sustainable care home interiors providing in-house manufacturing, full installation, producing soft furnishings, upholstery, and cabinetry. Over the years, Kerry Southern-Reason has become a pioneer in dementia interior design. This expertise has led to the company securing the Healthcare Design Award in 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2023 in the dementia design and best interior design categories. A transformative interiors company, forever moving forward, the company seeks new directions with one focus, to create safe but exciting care home interiors. Remarkably each design remains true to the company’s commitment that you will never see an interior scheme repeated. Each as unique as the one before and all produced to varying budgets. The company’s symbol is a Butterfly, a mantra for change, transition, adaptation, and growth. This symbol is testament to the company’s commitment to be at the forefront of care home interior design. Visit Profile If you’d like to feature your news or stories on SBID.org, get in touch to find out more. If you’d like to become SBID Accredited, click here for more information.