‘Your kitchen should feel like a room, not a lab,’ she adds. Pictured: Jennie's hallway before Rita's transformation Rita said seating in living rooms should be arranged to encourage chat. Rita tells me her wish is that her course ‘stops people from feeling lost and steers them towards excited’. I’ve spent the past few weeks watching Rita’s online video tutorials on everything from putting together a colour scheme to drawing up an electrical plan (Rita is very particular on the importance of getting sockets in the right places).Īnd now I get to meet the woman herself and, I hope, pick her brain about where to begin with my house. Our collection of Ikea’s finest flatpack isn’t going to cut it here.
RITA WOOD ROOM ARRANGER HOW TO
Having recently relocated with my husband from a suburban London terrace to an old stone barn in Derbyshire, I am at a loss as to how to make it feel like home. Fortunately, Rita has just launched an online course, sharing tricks gleaned from her 20-year career, so you can sprinkle interior design magic over your own home - without the Mayfair price-tag. I am not a House & Garden sort of person. Rita Konig overhauled Jennie Agg's Debryshire home, while revealing interior design tricks for creating an inviting room. And now - no pressure - she’s coming to see my house. Her work regularly graces Elle Decor and House & Garden. Instead, her rooms whisper that someone has exquisite taste (and, presumably, money). The finished article doesn’t scream ‘designed’ - there are no Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen horror-flourishes here. Think luxurious upholstery, hotel-worthy beds, jewel tones, subtle patterns and artfully mismatched prints. Rita’s signature look is colourful and comfortable pretty, but never twee. (The Clooneys are said to be regulars, while Michelle Obama, Mick Jagger and Jennifer Aniston have all been.) She also re-modelled one of West Hollywood’s hippest private members’ clubs, the San Vicente Bungalows, which opened last year.
The British interior designer is too discreet to name names, of course, but her portfolio boasts country piles, sleek New York apartments and Notting Hill pieds-a-terre. Rita Konig has long been the secret weapon of people doing up houses in the world’s smarter postcodes.
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