If These Walls Could Talk by The Business of Interiors

In episode 09 of the 'If These Walls Could Talk' podcast I am speaking with a fellow Northern Interior Designer-Hannah Sidley. Hannah is the creative director of Cream and Black, which is a luxury high -end residential interior design practice based in the West Midlands, working on projects across the UK. Hannah has a similar size team to my own and has followed a similar entrepreneurial journey t...

In Episode 08 Rachel interviews Peter Grech of the SpaceMaker Interiors. Peter established his company approximately four years ago, having left an established career in medicine to work in the interior design industry. His career change and some of the frustrations and learning points that he has experienced are relatable to many of us. Not least his big decision to move from one very abstract pr...

In Episode 07 of the If These Walls Could Talk Podcast we’re talking about paint. Rachel interviews Rob Green, who is one of the co-founders of Coat Paints. Coat Paints was established at the beginning of the COVID era, about three years ago. And Rachel started to become aware of this as an alternative challenger brand to some of the other premium paint brands that were in the industry and it caug...

In Episode 06, Rachel speaks with British-born textile artist Rosemary Hallgarten. Rachel first met Rosemary during the pandemic, not face-to-face, but over a video call. They were simply two business women on two different sides of the Atlantic. They connected on Instagram, which shortly turned into a video call and a conversation. During that conversation Rosemary was authentic. The story of her...

In episode 05 Rachel speaks with Gregory Phillips from Gregory Phillips Architecture. Gregory is an architect here in the UK and he predominantly designs very contemporary modern, super0prime and high-end residential buildings in London and the South East. Gregory has been an architect running his own practice since the very early 90s. He has many, many yeat and decades of rich experience that he...

In episode 04 Rachel is speaking with Charu Gandhi. Charu is the director and founder of Elicyon, which is a luxury interior design practice based in Kensington, London. Rachel first met Charu in 2018 when she was speaking at an event where Rachel was a guest. After that, when we were mingling, Rachel had the opportunity to speak to her one-to-one and Charu struck her as being different in so much...

In Episode 03 of If These Walls Could Talk, Rachel interviews Rick Campos. Rick is the founder and podcast host of the Design Biz Survival Guide in the USA. Rick is primarily based in Orange County, California. His spirit and energy to open up the conversation amongst the interior design community is something that caught Rachel's interest a couple of years ago. Since that time, she has spoken to...

In Episode 02 of the If These Walls Could Talk Podcast, Rachel is joined by Lori Bolon. Lori is the founder of Portaire, an inspirational platform for Interior Designers and Architects.  Portaire offers commentary on luxury design and has a curated and growing directory of high end interior brands, ultimately it is designed to help simplify processes. Portaire was born out of frustration...

In Episode 01 Rachel is joined by one of the most prominent ambassadors for the interior design industry and founder of The Society Of British & International Design, Vanessa Brady OBE. Vanessa was awarded an OBE in the Queen's birthday honour list in 2013 for her services to the interior design industry and in our debut podcast she takes us on her journey into the industry and candidly shares...