THE GUEST WHISPERER

“For me, the story of hosting began long before TGW — in kitchens, around tables, in the quiet rituals of everyday life.”

Miranda Gardiner is a writer, artist, and host whose work explores the emotional dimension of space - what it means to feel truly at home.

With over 30 years’ experience in interiors, new builds, and planning, she helps hosts and hotels create places that move people — not just aesthetically, but emotionally. Her approach blends design, artistry, and psychology to offer a new way of seeing how we welcome, dwell, and belong.


Beginnings

Her fascination with space began in childhood — building imaginary homes from cardboard boxes after supermarket trips. It became visceral years later, when her family lost both their home and their business. That experience taught her that space is never just structure — it’s feeling, safety, identity.

From Art to Attunement

Miranda’s creative life began in contemporary art, working with James Turrell, Tacita Dean, and Andy Goldsworthy. As a curator, she explored light, land, and perception — ideas that continue to shape her work. After publishing Teaching Dad to Cook Flapjack (Hardie Grant), she turned to the domestic realm, asking:

What if a well-made space could heal as much as it could inspire?

From Art to Attunement

Miranda’s creative life began in contemporary art, working with James Turrell, Tacita Dean, and Andy Goldsworthy. As a curator, she explored light, land, and perception — ideas that continue to shape her work. After publishing Teaching Dad to Cook Flapjack (Hardie Grant), she turned to the domestic realm, asking:

What if a well-made space could heal as much as it could inspire?

The Two Cabins

In restoring two riverside cabins in South Devon — Bowcombe Boathouse and The Batman’s Summerhouse — Miranda created living case studies in emotional hospitality. Every imperfection is honoured, every detail intentional. Their success became the foundation for The Guest Whisperer, her practice devoted to helping others host with empathy and precision.

Today her cabins maintain over 90 percent occupancy and have been featured internationally, proving that emotional intelligence and design depth can coexist beautifully — and profitably.

What Sets Her Apart

Working at the quiet intersection of design and psychology, Miranda creates spaces that don’t just look good — they feel right. Her genius lies in revealing the soul of a space: the imperfection that invites presence, the specificity that makes someone feel seen.

In an industry chasing efficiency and image, many hosts and hotels have lost the spark that made them start. Miranda helps them rediscover it — through reflective tools, consultancy, and workshops that bring emotional intelligence back into hospitality.

“Hospitality is not about inviting people into our perfect homes, but into our imperfect lives.”

– Shauna Niequist

Authored by Life

With a background in art history, curation, writing, and residential design, Miranda has developed a rare sensitivity to the felt experience of space — and now teaches others how to host in a way that goes beyond style and into something quietly transformative.

Her practice, The Guest Whisperer, offers hosts and hotels practical ways to bridge emotion and action: from reflective tools like Should I Stay or Should I Go?, to bespoke consultancy and forthcoming workshops.

“What Miranda has created is less about luxury, more about deep comfort.”

Ali Heath, author of Curate, Cocoon and Create

Let This Be the Beginning

There are many ways to begin — from reflective tools to bespoke consultancy — each designed to restore meaning, depth, and guest connection.

If you’re a host ready to reconnect with purpose, or a hotel seeking its emotional edge, TGW invites you into a quieter, deeper rhythm — one rooted in memory, attention, and transformation.