Rachana is a bright, charming, knowledgeable, and exceptionally passionate Interior Designer. She founded the award-winning bespoke, Oraanj interior design outfit which was launched in the UK in 2018. Oraanj provides a platform for other up-and-coming young female designers who may struggle to find opportunities in this highly competitive industry. Oraanj is unique in that they have a specialist in their team of brilliant and creative members for every aspect of modern interior design, encompassing residential, commercial, hospitality design, sustainability, and digital rendering. Each team member has their distinctive strength to create an excellent and exceedingly impressive complete design work. Each team member can produce a top-class vision:
“As a testament to the superiority of our design work, we recently received the highest honour of being the only UK-based Interior design Company to be invited, on an all-expenses paid trip to Spain by the Spanish government. The Oraanj furniture and accessories department was able to participate in this prestigious event and acquired valuable knowledge on the latest features in Europe which Oraanj can make available to their customers in the UK”.
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Oraanj with its dedicated and diverse approach emanates the company’s central motto of ‘style meets function’, encapsulating the essence of quality, style, and unbelievably mesmerising interior design work which reflects contemporary life. “At Oraanj we know how to utilise space so that it is transformed into the stunning, introducing a “Wow” factor yet ensuring it is a practical project. Oraanj always ensures the production of magnificently beautiful and super-applied designs. The whole Oraanj team displays the qualities of an excellent interior designer such as good communication, great time management, and within the client’s budgetary constraints too. It is also well-suited to the client’s lifestyle”.
Indeed, many professional designers will be able to envisage stylish grand ideas but may not so easily be able to deliver them. However, Oraanj makes enormous and meticulous efforts to ensure superb and unique design concepts effortlessly and affordably too! “Needless to say, everything looks impressive in theory, for example, these dream designs on Pinterest,” Rachana told us: “but at Oraanj we always ensure that it can work for a particular client”.
Oraanj is very proud that one of the designs that they are able to introduce is the big marbling slabs from ceiling to floor. “At Oraanj we create the respective mood board, to enable us to realise the design,” the founder continued: “We can work with the particularly narrower architecture based in London, where we have done wonders with box rooms (pictured). At the company we believe that it is all about how creative you can be with the proposed concept”.
Another attractive feature of Oraanj, which is a very intriguing selling point, is their captivating wall features and panelling solutions: “People don’t realise how much can be done with the walls,” Rachana commented: “In fact, you can save a lot on designer furniture if you simply focus on the surroundings: you can fill your home with mid-range furniture and it will still look striking”. Rachana further commented, that “in the UK, especially, one tends to have a lot of plain walls and paintings are hung to better the space. Similarly, you may try to fill the room with side tables, lamps, and rugs without tapping into the potential of the walls. However, that entire conversion is what creates true synergy.”
Rachana possesses a bubbly and warm personality which extends to her artistic ability. Her entrepreneurial journey originated in India where she was merely following in the footsteps of her father who was a prolific businessman with entrepreneurial & imaginative skill. Rachana quipped: “I remember talking with my friends when I was just 18 years old about how I wanted to create my interior design which will be a fun, fulfilling and energetic imaginative brand. I started in interior design doing projects for my friends and family and this fostered and grew my passion.” Indeed, the organic intuition of Oraanj has borne the proverbial international fruit for many customers where the company brings ‘joy, comfort, and a sense of well-being’ to the client’s home: essentially the experience of accessible to design luxury. Finally, not only does Rachana emerge as a role model for rising young women in the current interior design business world, but also embodies the forward-thinking philosophy of the power of positive perspective along with self-belief.
Can you summarise the aim of Oraanj for us?
We want to make the whole process of interior design as smooth, vibrant, affordable, and enjoyable as possible for the client.
Not unlike a refreshing glass of freshly squeezed juice, or if we’re feeling experimental, a Mimosa! What has been an emotive drive for you in work life?
I am a mother of one and full of maternal love which extends to my team who I consider part of the family. Wanting to work hard, motivating, and inspiring is what keeps me going for my formidable and remarkable team members are what push me. My little boy now even knows the ins and outs of Oraanj Interior design work and he recently told me that he wanted some shares in the company, if I permit him to run my social media! That evoked a warm smile and made me feel ecstatically happy.
Do you have a quick styling tip for us?
Yes. Luxury does not need to be expensive. If you want to add a touch of glamour and a warm inviting glow to your home you can simply invest in one elegant statement piece and it will make everything look great e.g. if you put a Versace, or another, trendy vase on the table, the whole coffee table will look great.
Finally, do you have a piece of advice for other young interior designers who want to launch a successful career?
Educate yourself and follow your passion – study it to find out more and gauge just how much you love doing it along the way. Creativity demands so much of your time and commitment that you’ve got to be doing such a profession because you are genuinely interested. If you enjoy it, you will naturally be focused. Don’t expect success overnight. Remember getting that all-important first break can be difficult at the best of times, but never give up or relent. Start by gaining experience by applying to do an internship or work as a trainee interior designer in an interior design company as the more experience you have the better the opportunities for you. Ultimately you could move on and open your firm!