Rachel chudley

The designer Rachel Chudley transforms a mews house into a stylish, art-filled home for a young family

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An instinct for recognising talent paid off handsomely for the owners of a Victorian house in north London when they selected the decorator Rachel Chudley, the winner of House & Garden's 2019 Rising Star award, to shake up its interiors with her exuberant approach.

This east London terrace is the perfect illustration of interior designer Rachel Chudley’s ability to create a narrative that carries through every room. Here, this is inspired by the owner’s rich heritage, with Austrian finds and family heirlooms setting the tone for imaginatively eclectic yet eminently practical interiors

In the latest instalment of our 'On Decorating' column, the interior designer Rachel Chudley talks us through her anarchic approach to colour.

It’s a curious thing to ask the hottest interior designer of the moment what their style is and for them to say that they “don’t really know” and “can’t articulate it in words”, but such is the reply from Rachel Chudley. “People tell me I have a discernible style across all my projects and that they think, ‘Yep, that’s definitely Rachel’s,’ but personally I can’t see it,” she says. I am in the former camp. My thumb involuntarily stops when I see one of Chudley’s projects on Instagram, each…

This east London terrace is the perfect illustration of interior designer Rachel Chudley’s ability to create a narrative that carries through every room. Here, this is inspired by the owner’s rich heritage, with Austrian finds and family heirlooms setting the tone for imaginatively eclectic yet eminently practical interiors

A while baxck, our London correspondent Christine sent me a late-night missive to say she'd met a promising young designer at a dinner. "I sat next to this

This east London terrace is the perfect illustration of interior designer Rachel Chudley’s ability to create a narrative that carries through every room. Here, this is inspired by the owner’s rich heritage, with Austrian finds and family heirlooms setting the tone for imaginatively eclectic yet eminently practical interiors

Enchanted by its idyllic setting, Louise Jones could see the merits of this 16th-century Surrey farmhouse despite its interior having been stripped of any character. With ingenuity and hard work, and the introduction of pattern and colour, she has given it personality in abundance