Rachael’s instinct for design was born in a house without a roof. Bought at auction eight weeks before she was born, her childhood home was a raw, windowless structure, and the ultimate creative project. Over the years, it became a richly personal space shaped by the vision of her artist mother and engineer father. Growing up surrounded by drawing, building, painting and restoring gave her a lasting love of craft and the handmade, and a fascination with how we build both function and meaning into the places we live.

After reading literature and history of art at Oxford, Rachael spent fifteen years building successful technology start-ups. Alongside that work, and raising two children, she trained at the Inchbald School of Design, and founded the studio, beginning her first large-scale project in 2024.

Her unconventional background shapes how the studio works. Every project begins with the people, to develop a clear-eyed understanding of how they live now and how they want to live in their finished home. Our schemes are drawn and detailed with a full appreciation of how a house is built, from its structure and services to the sequence of the works. And because Rachael has lived through three renovations of her own, she knows how much a project asks of a family, so we plan and coordinate with the discipline of her years in technology to keep our work on track.

Our interiors are layered and full of character, combining colour and pattern with natural light, sustainable materials and well-made things. We favour timelessness over trend, and objects with a story, whether that is one of history, family or craft, so that each house feels particular to the people in it, and wears its years well.

We bring a practical and joyful approach to every project, whether a city townhouse or a country retreat. With projects across London, and across the UK from Kent to the Highlands, we are always curious about new people and places. The studio is located in St Albans, Hertfordshire.