Fifi McGee | Renovation Courses & Interior Design

I completed the Renovation Course after buying a 1950’s property. The course content was super relevant and the quality of the materials amazing. I picked up so many useful ideas on how to plan and manage our renovation and some brilliant insights into where to start on designing the interior to create a cohesive look. The Reno Club group was a friendly space to ask all those questions that only other people going through a renovation can answer! I got so much great advice from the group experts. Fantastic value for money and definitely worth the investment for the peace of mind it gave me. Thanks guys.

Fi has provided us 1:1 support during our house renovation and complete re-design of our open plan kitchen-diner/ living room. We were completely daunted at the beginning of the project, to say the least, and her support has been invaluable. We were impressed by Fi's thoughtful ideas, knowledge and experience. She got to know us as people, teasing out our styles, and working out how best to bring our vision into reality whilst considering usability and practicalities at every step. Her online courses are comprehensive, accessible and hugely improved my knowledge on renovation and design. They were an amazing handholding and made our project much less overwhelming. We absolutely love our new space and would 100% recommend Fi and her courses, thank you!

We have recently purchased a house that needs a full renovation, something we've never done before. We were feeling totally overwhelmed by how to approach the project until we stumbled upon the Fifi McGee website. It's such a treasure trove of resources for anyone doing work on a house, however big or small your project. We were really struggling to get our heads around the interior design part of our project, so decided to sign up for the 'Home Design Lab' course. It's been absolutely brilliant. I love Fi's style myself, but what's great about the course is that it caters for all styles and tastes. It really helps you to hone in on what your own style preferences and priorities are, and also to make sensible decisions within budget. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this course to anyone needing help with home design!

I purchased the renovation course last October as we were buying our "forever home" which needs a lot of work. As I was really overwhelmed with the whole process I found this course was so helpful and informative that all of the sudden I felt I knew exactly what I need to do. So from being overwhelmed I got really excited! Thank you Fi, you saved a few grey hairs! I am also working with Fi with interior design of our new house and she has also prepared an amazing design pack which looks absolutely incredible! I adore Fi's style and her ability to create lovely homely space. The level of detail, colour options, materials and all the notes make so much sense and it is really easy to get a feel of the space even if the extension hasn't been built yet! Would highly recommend Fi to everyone!

We purchased Fifi McGee's Renovation Course a while ago and we absolutely love it! Back then, we were in the process of searching for a house but we knew we wanted more of a project so we decided to get it beforehand so that we knew what we were getting ourselves into. It's particularly helpful for us as both me and my husband are expats and we didn't have the slightest idea where to start with renovating a house in the UK. We've learned loads from it and it has saved us an incredible amount of time!

We are embarking on the journey to renovate our property. Trawling through the internet, there are so many guides, blogs and 'hacks'. We then found Fifi McGee's blog and were instantly hooked on her original and insightful content. We have since enrolled on her How to Renovate a House course and it's been invaluable to us. Learning from someone who has experience, who was already walked the path you're about to go on, is so valuable. We're confident about this journey, because we have the support of this course.

We are about to start renovating the ground floor of our house and wanted to approach the planning and ideas with some guidance and pointers to get the best out of the work we're about to undertake. After sending through our plans to Fifi, we had a wonderful zoom chat to discuss them, with Fifi talking through pointers and tips and raising interesting questions for me to also consider. It felt like I was speaking to a friend I have known for a long time! Fifi is warm, welcoming and even though our call ended up running over it wasn't a problem for her which was a really nice extra touch. It has left me with lots of ideas to research that I hadn't thought of and eager to get this renovation started ASAP! I will be using more of Fifi's services in the future as our build gets underway and would definitely recommend her.

I just love Fifi McGee's style so signed up for the course to help me with a renovation project knocking a room through to make a kitchen diner. I found the course to be really well laid out, simple to follow and with great information. It's really helped me to focus as I was finding it quite overwhelming not quite knowing where to start. I recently got the colour swatch too, and I'm looking forward to using it. The way they take you through project planning step by step is invaluable. Highly recommended!

Fifi McGee's How to Renovate a House online course is an excellent way to boost a renovation plan for your home. It is well structured, with helpful tools and techniques designed to support you having a clear plan all the way through your renovation. It helps to ensure you manage your budget from the start and practical tips to keep on time, whilst finding and managing contractors confidently. The modules on layout helped us consider the house as a whole, instead of room by room and the module on design helped us refine our own personal tastes. Thank you Fifi and Neal!

I have been following Fifi Mc Gee for years because I just love her style! We recently bought a house that was literally a shell; walls, doors and windows that's it! While this is so exciting it was also pretty overwhelming as we had to decide what to do with all the rooms at once. I had vague ideas of what I wanted for each room but suddenly all the trades wanted to know what my furniture layout was going to be and where I wanted every single socket in the space of a couple of weeks. I panicked! But as fate would have it Fifi Mc Gee was offering an interior design service. I immediately signed up the Detailed Design Pack for our entire ground floor (130m2), she took my very jumbled ideas from our 90 minute phone consultation and perusing of my (also jumbled) pintrest boards and produced an amazing design pack for our home. Fiona really took into account what we wanted and what we didn't want, what we would be using the house for through the years (a growing family) and even threw in some layout ideas that we didn't expect but totally love!! Fiona was happy to adapt anything we wanted and was always at the end of the phone which was particularly handy in those panicked shopping moments. She produced a detailed plan for me to hand to our plumbers and electricians. This was a big thing for me as I was so worried that I would forget something important in these stages. I really think she has thought of everything, the guide is practical and useful and I am now at the nice stage of shopping for those lovely interiors she has suggested. If you are thinking about hiring Fiona I would say just do it. Her service is amazing value for money and has saved me countless hours of planning as well as making sure I have a clear plan for each part of my home and so avoiding any mistakes at build stage that may be costly to move around or change later. Thank you Fiona I will be booking your design services for the first floor when you are available!

We bought a family house that needed fully refurbishing before moving in. I have refurbished some flats previously, so I had a bit of experience and decided I could manage it myself but I soon found I was out of my depth and struggling. I came across Fifi McGee online course once we had already begun refurbishing and it has really helped me in numerous ways to manage the project and get the best results. Time is precious and the course is not too long. The information and advice have been refined and are presented in a way that is easy to understand and put into practice. There are links for more information whenever you need it but there is sufficient in the course and crucially not too much. I have found the budget planner immensely useful and this was the first thing I put into practice. There were so many things I had not thought of and this helped me to capture these costs. The budget planner also highlighted how much we were overbudget and encouraged us to examine every expense and make savings. Finding our style was fun and useful. The Colour Swatch module really helped me with decorating and choosing colours - how do you choose when there are 22,000 colours and you want something pastel – this course showed me how. I would say the Fifi Mcgee course is the best money I have spent on our renovation because it has made the project so much more enjoyable and saved me so much money.

I recently signed up to Fifi McGee online course. We are taking on a bungalow renovation and had no idea where to start. As I’ve progressed through the course I’ve found myself saying to my husband “it’s worth for xxx” It started with the budget planner, floor planning, then I found my style, colour theme, planning contractors and timings..... it just goes on and on. We have definitely avoided costly mistakes. What’s more I feel inspired and loving dipping and out of the course as I progress my ideas whilst in lock down. I also love how practical the advice is, you can tell it’s learned improvements through experience rather than academia. Thank you so much Fifi & Neil for putting so much love into this course. Zoe