Since 2018
Every story has its own side.
Ours is the story of a mother and daughter, passionate about interiors, design, and the feeling of home. We founded RIMA — an interior design studio based in Lisbon — with the desire to create spaces tailored to each client’s life and sensibility.
We’re inspired by the Mediterranean lifestyle and seek to design natural, organic, and timeless interiors with a quiet sense of luxury. We value exceptional materials and believe that details define the quality and experience of a space. We work with care, time, and intention — always aiming to make the process lighter and more enjoyable for our clients. Because we believe an interior project should be a beautiful, calm, and seamless experience.
Rita e Alice dos Santos
Residential Spaces
Timeless design for effortless beauty.
At RIMA, we design refined residential interiors across Portugal — from apartments and villas to holiday homes — with a deeply intentional and highly personalised approach.
As a full-service interior design firm, we offer end-to-end support from concept to installation, with thoughtful oversight and meticulous care. We manage every step of the process, from construction through to the final styling, ensuring spaces that are functional, elegant, and timeless.
Each project is tailored to the lives and aspirations of our clients, combining close collaboration with our signature attention to detail. With carefully sourced finishes, materials, and decor, we create spaces that feel authentic, lasting, and beautifully lived in.
Commercial & Office Spaces
Interiors that reflect identity and purpose.
We design workspaces and commercial environments with sophistication, functionality, and creativity. Our team develops full-service interior design projects for offices, boutiques, restaurants, boutique hotels, and hospitality spaces, always with a focus on experience — for both those who work there and those who visit.
As a full-service interior design firm, we offer end-to-end support — from concept to installation — with thoughtful oversight and meticulous care. We manage the entire process and curate every element with precision, from furniture and lighting to materials and finishes. The result: versatile, refined, and brand-aligned spaces, designed with purpose and made to last.
RIMA's Stories
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We hired RIMA to handle the interior design for our home in Algarve. From the beginning the team understood our desire and translated it into a space that captures the atmosphere we are hoping for — elegant, relaxed and effortless. We were especially impressed by their creative solutions that maximized the use of space. The final result is not only beautiful but also highly functional, with every detail thoughtfully considered. Installation and final delivery were executed with the utmost professionalism. The entire process was seamless, and it gave us a piece of mind to work with a team that we can trust. Rima design brought our dream home to life, and we could not be happier with the outcome.
We renovated our entire home from the ground up with RIMA — and everything went as smoothly as possible. Living abroad, we were reassured knowing that Alice and Rita cared for our house as if it were their own — everything went according to plan, with no complaints from the neighbours, within the agreed budget, and true to the original design. From start to finish, the entire process was highly professional and meticulous, which gave us enormous peace of mind. And in times when renovation stories in Portugal are often less than ideal... RIMA was a breath of fresh air and proof that there are truly outstanding professionals in our country.
Excellence — there’s no other way to describe this team! The care, attention and passion the team poured into designing my home in Costa de Caparica will stay with me for the rest of my life. Everything was carried out with deep dedication to meet my family’s needs. The execution phase faced challenging times: the unavoidable impact of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine led to serious material shortages. I’m convinced that only RIMA Design’s remarkable commitment — and the way they truly lived this project as if it were their own — made my dream possible. I will always recommend your work.
I'm now on my third project with RIMA, and I continue to be pleasantly surprised by the team’s ideas. They always manage to tailor the design to the project's functionality — and, above all, to the profile of each client. I highly recommend them.
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