Interior design & decoration · Gloucestershire
Making a home, from the inside out.
Consultants and bespoke manufacturers. A husband and wife team helping you with colours, fabrics, furnishings and the structure that holds them together.
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What we do
Helping you make a home in these key areas
Colours
Paint colours and palettes chosen for the whole house, room by room.
Fabrics
Access to the classic fabric houses, with a maker's eye for how a cloth will hang.
Furnishings
Soft and hard furnishing, through to the objet d'art that finishes a room.
Bespoke design
Drapery and interiors designed for your rooms, not adapted from a catalogue.
Visualisation
See the scheme before anything is cut, fitted or painted.
Unique solutions
An engineering twist for awkward windows and the most impossible situations.
Manufacture
Made and installed by us, using traditional high-end drapery techniques.
One site, one scheme
Every surface, recess and fitting treated as an asset.
Who we are
Two disciplines, one seamless service
Based in Gloucestershire since 2022, Katie Rapp Design Consultants is a husband and wife team established in 1993. The two of them mesh to provide seamless assistance on all design and interior decorating matters.
Katie
Lifestyle & furnishing
Katie refers to herself as a decorator. Her customers will recognise her as a designer, but she feels "decorator" is a far more precise description of her involvement with them in making a home, and it distinguishes her role from the hard structure of building.
Because of her joie de vivre, Katie is the natural focal point for most customers, and her name seems to get welded into people's minds. It is no surprise she has lent it to the business. Her background is in textiles and couture.
Julian
Interior architecture & engineering
Julian deals with the structure, form and engineering of design: the interior architecture that every scheme depends on. He runs the business, and his background is in art and commercial graphic design.
That engineering view is what lets the company get the most from its drapery, sometimes in the most impossible situations.
We treat the project's entire site as one, decorating from the inside out. The structural elements of any project are its assets… each surface, recess and fitting has to be much more than its function… why waste a blank canvas?
Katie & Julian Rapp
Our roots
It started with bespoke drapery
The company grew from a business Katie and Julian started in 1993 making bespoke drapery, and it has evolved through sound guidance and the trust of its clients.
Those roots in manufacture and installation put them in good stead to advise on a wide range of matters, from soft and hard furnishing to paint colours and objets d'art.
Fundamental to the company's success is its knowledge of traditional high-end drapery techniques, replicating the standards of the classic designers, with an engineering twist of their own.
Fabric houses we work with
A selection of our suppliers
- Andrew Martin
- Beaumont & Fletcher
- Bennison
- Brunschwig & Fils
- Chelsea Textiles
- Christian Lee
- Cloth & Clover
- Colefax & Fowler
- Designers Guild
- Fermoie
- Flora Soames
- GP & J Baker
- Hodsall McKenzie
- Ian Sanderson
- Inchyra
- James Hare
- Jane Churchill
- Jason D'Souza
- Kate Forman
- Kravet
- Lee Jofa
- Lewis & Wood
- Manuel Canovas
- Mulberry
- Nicholas Herbert
- Nichola Taylorson
- Nile & York
- Nobilis
- Penny Morrison
- Pierre Frey
- Rapture & Wright
- Robert Kime
- Samuel & Sons
- Sarah Hardaker
- Susan Deliss
- Tissus d'Hélène
- Travers
- Turnell & Gigon
- Vaughan
- Warwick
- Zimmer + Rohde
- Zoffany
Get in touch
Tell us about your home
Rodley, Gloucestershire
GL14 1QZ