a sensory-led interior design studio, where simplicity and quiet function shape Spaces of story, beauty & belonging for life’s next chapter
where beauty is felt
the thread
Niamh O Callaghan
I’ve been drawing and making for as long as I can remember.
But I first understood what a room could hold at thirteen, standing inside Riverstown House, a period property lovingly brought back to life by a friend's grandfather. I remember thinking a house could carry memory the way a person does and I've been chasing that feeling in every space since.
For years I lived in what I call Borrowed Spaces, homes shaped by someone else’s decisions, someone else’s materials and someone else’s taste. I learned that a home doesn’t need to be entirely your own to hold you. Small considered rituals were enough to ground me, wherever I was. That’s still the belief at the heart of tigh design, beauty isn’t about starting from nothing. It’s about noticing what’s already true and building from there.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
My path to this work wasn't a straight line, and I don't think the best ones ever are. I trained as an architecture technologist, working in award-winning practices in Dublin and Cork, then spent years as a certified Project Manager, eventually
overseeing 211 high-end kitchen installations at The Elysian in Cork City, work that taught me how much of a home's feeling is decided in details no one ever sees.
Alongside it, a quieter thread was pulling at me, a BA in painting, a Postgraduate in Arts Administration, work at SFMOMA and eventually The Green on Red Gallery in Dublin,
championing Irish artists whose work still finds its way into the homes I shape. Every project carries at least one piece of Irish visual art or a designer-maker's hand, a quiet anchor, and a layer of story that outlasts any trend.
A Diploma in Interior Design was what finally let all of it meet, the technical, the emotional, the made by-hand which became the language I still work in today. I founded tigh design in 2016 to help people build homes that hold them the way a good one should, not performing for
anyone, just quietly, honestly theirs.
‘Best Experiential & Emotion-Led Interior Design Studio’
EU Business “Irish Enterprise Award Winner’’ 2026
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by creating a home that feels lived-in, holds your story and supports the way you live, personal, effortless and entirely yours, whatever chapter you find yourself in.
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