KATIE DOWNING

LEAD DESIGNER FOR MARKETING SUITES AND RESIDENTIAL AMENITIES

 

TWENTY QUESTIONS

QUESTION ONE : Describe yourself in three words.

Optimistic, independent, impatient

QUESTION TWO : Give us a quick run down of a typical day at Suna for you?

That’s the beauty of Interior Design, there is no typical day. It could be working with the team on developing designs, meeting clients and contractors to walk the site and talk through drawings and details, or catching up with suppliers to see their exciting new products.

QUESTION THREE : What’s your favourite Suna project?

Right now, I’m loving 49 Bassett Road in Notting Hill for Fruition Properties. The paired back palette with all those metallic touches is beautiful, very Holland Park.

QUESTION FOUR : Tell us something about you we would never guess?

I used to ice-skate competitively

QUESTION FIVE : If you had £1,000,000 what would you spend it on?

I’d charter a boat and sail around the Caribbean. That feeling of being on the sea is so relaxing.

QUESTION SIX : Favourite food?

Sushi is my go to.

QUESTION SEVEN : Least favourite food?

Baked beans

QUESTION EIGHT : Favourite film?

I’m not very good with films, I find it hard to commit. But I love any good tear-jerker.

QUESTION NINE : Favourite holiday destination?

For many years I’ve been going back to some of the more remote Greek islands with my family, it has definitely become my happy place.

QUESTION TEN : What are your top three pet peeves?

  • Slow walkers

  • Bad driving

  • Very fine rain – it’s the worst for us curly hair girls. 

QUESTION ELEVEN : Do you believe in ghosts and/or aliens?

Ghosts absolutely, aliens tbc

QUESTION TWELVE : Favourite late night snack?

Tea and toast - a classic combo

QUESTION THIRTEEN : What’s your go-to dish when you have to make dinner?

Mmm, something fish based with lemon and white wine.

QUESTION FOURTEEN : Do you have any weird phobias?

Broken pencils

QUESTION FIFTEEN : What’s your favourite or earliest memory?

I have a very early memory of beach walks in Northumberland and a picnic in the dunes. I’m probably romanticising it, I’ve been told it was freezing!

QUESTION SIXTEEN : If you had to choose to live in another time period, when would that be?

The 70s – hands down. Wish I’d been out there dancing to disco classics.

QUESTION SEVENTEEN: If you had three wishes what would you wish for?

  • To be able to sing – I will continue regardless

  • To speak multiple languages

  • For time to slooooow down

QUESTION EIGHTEEN : If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life what would it be?

Curry – in all it’s forms. Couldn’t live without some spice.

QUESTION NINETEEN : If you weren’t in your current role what other career could you have seen your self doing?

If not Design then I always saw myself as a restaurant owner, I can’t think where that came from, the stress would probably send me over the edge…

QUESTION TWENTY : What advice would you give the teenage/child you?

Don’t worry, be happy