Interior designer cover letter example
An interior designer’s cover letter takes a studio through one project from brief to handover. Name the post, give the projects you run, show one with its budget and timescale, then say why this studio.
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Imogen Hartley
Brighton · [email protected] · 07700 900268
16 October 2026
Ms Clara Whitcombe
Design Director
Harlow & Pike Studio
3 Calvert Yard
London EC2A 9QZ
Dear Ms Whitcombe
Application for Senior Interior Designer
I am applying for the Senior Interior Designer post at Harlow & Pike Studio. I have six years in residential and hospitality interiors at Saltmarsh Interiors in Brighton, where I now run about ten projects a year from brief to handover.
In 2025 I redesigned the 24 bedrooms of a seafront hotel. I agreed the brief with the owners, priced three schemes, drew the layouts in AutoCAD and the visuals in SketchUp, and ran site meetings with the contractor every fortnight. The rooms reopened on budget after 11 weeks.
Your hotel and restaurant work is the part of my job I enjoy most, and I would like to do more of it on larger schemes. I would also bring a list of about 40 suppliers of furniture, fabrics and lighting, many of them makers in the south of England.
My CV is attached and my portfolio is at the address above. I would be glad to take you through two or three of the projects. Thank you for considering my application.
Yours sincerely
Imogen Hartley
Fictional letter from Imogen Hartley, the applicant in the interior designer CV example. Every person and employer in it is invented.
Why each paragraph is there
I am applying for the Senior Interior Designer post at Harlow & Pike Studio. I have six years in residential and hospitality interiors at Saltmarsh Interiors in Brighton, where I now run about ten projects a year from brief to handover.
The post, your years and the projects you run.
In 2025 I redesigned the 24 bedrooms of a seafront hotel. I agreed the brief with the owners, priced three schemes, drew the layouts in AutoCAD and the visuals in SketchUp, and ran site meetings with the contractor every fortnight. The rooms reopened on budget after 11 weeks.
One project from brief to handover.
Your hotel and restaurant work is the part of my job I enjoy most, and I would like to do more of it on larger schemes. I would also bring a list of about 40 suppliers of furniture, fabrics and lighting, many of them makers in the south of England.
Why this studio, and what else you bring.
My CV is attached and my portfolio is at the address above. I would be glad to take you through two or three of the projects. Thank you for considering my application.
The CV, the portfolio and a short close.