What I Rent: I’m an interior designer — here’s how I’ve decorated my £700 Kent one-bed

This weekend, we’re visiting Evelyn in Marden (Picture: Justin Griffiths-Williams)

Welcome back to What I Rent – Metro’s tenant diary series exploring what renting is like in the UK and further afield.

When she was a little girl, Evelyn Lindley loved interior design.

Bright colours always called out to her, and she’d often stare at the ceiling of her mother’s home, realising that whoever had laid the wallpaper had mistakenly stuck it on upside down.

After a slew of customer service jobs, in 2020, Evelyn decided to take the reins and study interior design, just as she’d always wanted to.

Now, she’s used her lifelong passion – and qualificatio...