Amanda Omogiafo

Studio Mogore is my interior design studio in Lagos. It's been a decade in the making, and I'm so happy it finally exists exactly the way I always pictured it.

For me, a space is never just about how it looks. It's about how it feels. I want your home to be your safe space, the place that wraps you in a warm hug at the end of a long day, and the one you catch yourself missing even when you're miles away on holiday.

Studio Mogore carries a family name, and is built in that spirit of something passed down: considered, lasting and made to be kept.

For the longest time I shied away from design, even though it was the most natural path for me. I worked across finance, operations, marketing and tech instead, but the designer and builder in me kept showing up in the way I worked.

My first company, Urban Pumpkin, came from wanting to see rentals in Nigeria designed differently. It started as one short-stay apartment in Lagos and scaled to multiple properties, bootstrapped the whole way.

All the while, I kept designing homes for friends and family, mostly because they kept asking. What brought me back every time was the feeling a good space can give someone. It's almost unexplainable, and every time I get to create it for someone, I feel a little closer to my purpose.

Heads down on Studio Mogore. Over the past year I've also been building internal tools, websites and full-stack apps with AI, and loving every bit of it. I split the year between Lagos and London, which mostly means two SIM cards and one suitcase that never fully unpacks. Tennis whenever I can get a court.