Sustainability is something that resounds through all the links in her business chain in her quest for everything from natural materials to eco-friendly wallpaper. All her trusted suppliers are required to fill out a questionnaire detailing their own green credentials.

"I try to stay as local as I can and work with Liverpool artists, creatives, furniture manufacturers and so on," she said.

Clients include the University of Liverpool, for which she has recently both refurbished its Wyncote Sports Grounds Pavilion, in Allerton, and the Hub, at Foresight Centre, off Pembroke Place.

Recently, she has been working in the US, working on the interior of a fashionable tea shop in New York, T Salon, that has spawned a second branch in LA.

Again with the carbon footprint in mind, when possible internet conference calls gave an alternative to trans-Atlantic business trips.

Her message, too, is that sustainability doesn’t mean sacrificing style – her T Salon projects (which include light shades made from recycled tea bags) are in exclusive areas of New York and LA – and, no pun intended, needn’t cost the earth.

"Green doesn’t have to be Birkenstocks, and brown and green colours," she laughed.

"It’s not always about the money either, and it’s a matter of getting that across to clients.

"It’s about being consciously aware of how things are being manufactured, and what companies are doing afterwards."