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INTERIOR DESIGNERS’ TRICKS TO ADD SPACE & LIGHT
Brimming with colour, character, personality and bright ideas EXPERT GUIDES
• Investing in the perfect greenhouse Design
• Choosing curtains, blinds & shutters
• Mastering neutral colour palettes
UPLIFTING HOMES
PLAYFUL & PRACTICAL
A unique approach to the interiors has brought this Victorian villa in London back to life and created a family home filled with colour, pattern and joy
Watts 1874’s Ussé Chinoiserie wallcovering makes a statement in the kitchen, chiming with the decorative tiles on the splashback, which Alice was keen to include due to her love of birds. The existing kitchen has been repainted in a combination of Tea Green by Edward Bulmer Natural Paint and Sencha by Paint & Paper Library. The billiard room-style pendant light is from Empel Collections.
VIBRANT REVIVAL
Working with a designer on the renovation of her 19th-century country cottage has given Joanna Nel the chance to rediscover her confidence and create artfully bold schemes FEATURE CHARLOTTE DUNFORD PHOTOGRAPHY BOZ GAGOVSKI
and tactile materials
Jewel tones
bring warmth to the sitting room. Eliza sofas in Dijon and Leaf from Love Your Home and Neptune’s Olivia armchair surround a footstool from The Bespoke Footstool Company upholstered in Colefax and Fowler’s Delgado fabric in Red/Sienna.
The central core of the Grade II* listed house was built in the early 18th century, later extended to the left to form a stable block. To the right is the new drawing room extension.
INHERENT FLAIR
To the layers of gracious good taste inherited from her illustrious forebears, Esther Cayzer-Colvin has brought her own gimlet eye for colour and design to the restoration of her Wiltshire home
FEATURE CAROLINE DONALD PHOTOGRAPHY JAMES MCDONALD
Filled with colour, pattern, antiques and whimsical modern collections, the
sitting room has a joyful feel. The Rochester sofa, Wave bench in yellow velvet and Connaught stool are all from David Seyfried. A Nomad Letoon rug from Weaver Green anchors the seating area.
COLOUR Confidence
A vivacious and assured redesign has given this Oxfordshire cottage – a converted 18th-century farm building – unexpected character and verve
FEATURE KERRYN HARPER-CUSS PHOTOGRAPHY BRENT DARBY
For a neutral look with plenty of warmth, interior designer Laura Stephens used Paint & Paper Library’s Mink on the ceiling and Powder V on the walls of this sitting room. The Rotondo chairs from The Socialite Family are upholstered in Robert Kime’s Tazuna while the rug with a cream jute border is from Nordic Knots.