I came to London for what was meant to be a year, married my husband Rory along the way, and we've stayed twelve years, surrounded by paint charts stacked higher than is sensible.
Since then I've worked on Georgian terraces in Islington, a thirty-room hotel on the Cornish coast, a neighbourhood restaurant in Borough Market, and a flat in Edinburgh for a client who, it turned out, grew up two streets from me.
My eye for colour has taken me to wallpaper archives in Lyon, a ceramics workshop in Lisbon, and more than one car boot sale where I've come home with a chipped jug I had no need for and every intention of using.
But wherever the sourcing takes me, the work always starts the same way: with tea, not tape measures, at my kitchen table.
Whether its Salone del Mobile in Milan, wallpaper archives in Lyon or Europe's best galleries and museums I'm always looking for collections who stop me in my tracks.
Design Tours
Nothing beats trawling for hidden treasures. I've lost count of the jugs and bowls I've found that I loved but had no need for.
Flea Markets & Boot Sales
Nothing beats trawling for hidden treasures. I've lost count of the jugs and bowls I've found that I loved but had no need for.
My Spaniel Barley
This is a chance to talk about your company ethos, like this: That odd lamp from Portobello Road. Your grandmother's mirror with the slightly wonky frame. The painting you bought on a whim and have never quite known where to hang.
At Morag Williams, we treat your special pieces as stories to build a room around. Our job is to give your favourites a proper place, introduce a few clever new neighbours, and leave you with a space that feels more alive, more you and completely unforgettable.
Priya keeps the studio running, which is to say she keeps the rest of us running. From client onboarding to project sign-off, she manages every timeline, budget, and deadline so nothing gets missed. She is, in short, the one who makes it all actually happen.
Esther leads design development across residential and hospitality projects, and has a particular eye for sourcing. She has never once walked past a good fabric sample without stopping. Most clients say she's why their rooms turned out better than imagined.
Add your bio here to highlight your main roles or responsibilities, like this: Morag founded the studio in 2014 after one favour for a friend turned into rather more. She leads the creative direction of every project, from first concept through to final styling day.
Two dinner guests asked who'd done our kitchen before they'd even taken their coats off. Morag took about four sentences from us on how we wanted the room to feel and somehow turned it into the most lived-in space in the house.
From the first pot of tea, she understood exactly what we wanted for the bar: warm and colourful without ever tipping into chaos. Eighteen months on, regulars still ask who did the booths.
"Morag took a pub that didn't know what it wanted to be and turned it into somewhere people now plan their whole evening around. She makes bold choices feel obvious, which is rarer than it sounds."