Second life decorating9/22/2023 ![]() ![]() However somehow it is also recognisable as our work.” Each of our projects consists of this unique mixture it wouldn’t be possible without the client or the site-specific space we are designing. These elements are then squeezed out through the rather funky sponge that is Rachel Chudley Interior Design, with a fair amount of marination on the way. “I soak up the information from the client and the space we are decorating. And then there are interior designers who listen and who want to be a kind of conduit for helping their clients achieve what they want.” Rachel Chudley uses the metaphor of a sponge to describe the process. It is their job to create something beautiful, a finished product. “There are some who have a very established look, a very established brand, and their clients will know exactly what they are going to get. ![]() “Broadly I would say there are two types of interior designer,” says Lucy Hammond Giles. We will look into the subtext of how they enjoy living, how they want to feel when they’re coming home after a difficult day at work, or when they’re putting the kids to bed, and we know what’s available out there to help them achieve that feeling.” That idea of helping is a crucial, though not universal facet of working in interior design. We have experience of understanding how people live. As Nicola explains, “the role of the interior designer comes into its own when people don’t really know what they want. If it’s that very variety that you find bewildering, then that is ideally where an interior designer would step in to help. Now there’s much more available to play with.” It was the same with food all the different herbs and spices you can get in a supermarket now always existed somewhere, but they weren’t user friendly or easy to access. Ultimately it’s a good thing that interiors are more in the public consciousness because there is more variety accessible now. I think it works when the bones of your house are classical and timeless, but you can have fun with some things that are in fashion like you would with a piece of jewellery, and let it be something easy to change or reinterpret down the line. Try and develop a good sense of what is going to be everywhere. While Instagram might make it feel more natural for its audience to give as much consideration to their homes as to their wardrobes, are we just churning out a series of cookie-cutter interiors, keeping up with the Joneses rather than giving free rein to our personalities? To counter this possibility, Nicola advises “using Instagram to tickle your imagination rather than being slavish to it. I think the same sort of thing has been happening with interiors.”īut there are two sides to every coin. Delia Smith’s iconic books were everywhere and everyone was suddenly trying to find glycerine to make a torte. “Supper at one point became a form of creative expression. Nicola Harding compares it to the British cooking revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. As fashion brands increasingly turn their attention to homewares, and interiors influencers proliferate on social media, it feels de rigeur that we should be happy to show off our rooms as extensions of ourselves. More and more people are coming round to the idea that their interiors should be as much a part of their self-expression as clothes, however. These elements are subtle - we want to reflect the client through the house so that the feeling is personal and warm.” Paul Massey Exploring the client’s Dutch roots, we used antique lace and chinoiserie tassels to make curtains and upholster furniture and cushions. This house by Rachel Chudley, as she explains “is a great example of the joy of starting with the life experience and inspiration of our clients. ![]() The past seems to unfold as you move around the oldest family houses: the style of the furniture, the portraits, even the architecture, signals how the story has developed, and if you catch a glimpse of the TV, of a suspiciously modern-looking armchair or the family photographs on a side table, one has the sense that it is still developing now. Most people enjoy looking round historic country houses, for example, and they are particularly fascinating when members of the family to whom they have belonged still live there. The second is almost like a diary, a record of a conceptualised idea of home, of what safety and comfort means to us, and our story of our journey through life.” This could be visualised in any number of different ways. That's less interesting for me as it's mostly done with the subtlety of a brass band. “One is simply display, showing other people what you can afford to have. “The interiors we create serve mostly two key purposes,” says designer Benedict Foley. Benedict Foley's bedroom at his Suffolk cottage Owen Gale ![]()
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