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KEEN AS MUSTARD

Warm and rich, if you’re planning to wait out the cooler months in sumptuous comfort, these warm yellow country-inspired fabrics and wallpapers will help to ensure you remain as keen as keen as mustard on the results of your interior design projects...

This Spread: Seasons By May Bedding and Pillowcase By Morris & Co in Saffron, £125/king; £22/pillowcase, £150/throw.

Each of our featured fabrics are stocked by the area’s leading independent interior designers...

Top: Kooltown two seater sofa by William Yeoward at Sarah Harding Interiors. Chairs in William Yeoward fabric, lamp in peacock by William Yeoward.

Above/Right: Elina fabric collection by Zoffany, curtains in linen/yellow. Right: Clarke & Clarke Botanist collection.

Harlequin Momentum Accents, colours shown are moonstone, plum pebble and gold.

Clarke & Clarke Oasis, Monika and Leighton fabrics in mustard.

Above: Harlequin Callista collection, curtains in Meadowgrass fabric. Cushions in Kalamia and Harmonia. Right: Pineapple wallpaper, Clarke & Clarke Colony, Tobago colourway. Little Greene Paint Company’s Sakura wallpaper. Above/Right: Harlequin Hortelano voile curtains, zest/ silver ombre colourway.

Local Suppliers...

Delcor Interiors, Stamford 01780 762579 www.delcor.co.uk. Furleys, Rutland 01572 755539 www.furleys.co.uk. H-Works, Stamford 01780 754605 www.hworksdesign.co.uk. Hunters Interiors, Uffington, Stamford PE9 4TD, 01780 757946 huntersinteriorsofstamford.co.uk. Lumison Lighting, Oakham, 01572 724600 www.lumisonlighting.co.uk. Sarah Harding Interiors, Uppingham, 01572 823389 www.sarahhardinginteriors.co.uk. n

Bespoke cushions created by Hunters Interiors using Lewis & Wood Metrica fabric £call.

Feather Candle Holder Glass & enamel, 15cm, £12.

Jungle Vase Hand-painted statement vase, 35cm x 35cm, £65. Green & Brown Vase Retro style from a selection at Hunters Interiors £50.

Plum & Ashby Candle Spiced Orange & Red Berry, 100% natural vegetable wax, £26.

WINTER STYLE WITH HUNTERS

At Hunters Interiors you’ll find a wonderful selection of items for the home including candle holders, vases, trinket trays & foliage... they’ll make thoughtful festive gifts, too! Visit the company’s studios or buy our featured products online... Realistic Foliage Ideal for creating displays £15/stem.

Leopard Trinket Dish Teal green with gold gilded edge, 14cm x 10cm, £6.

Flamingo Jar With lid, pale green porcelain with

gold gilded edges, 40cm £80. Gold Leaf Candle Holder

Dark blue with a gold toned botanical print, 19cm tall, £12.

Hunters Interiors of Stamford offers an excellent interior design consultation service plus a range of home accessories and gifts including vases, candle holders and festive foliage for sale at their showroom, The Stables, Copthill Farm, Deeping Road, Stamford PE9 4TD. Call 01780 757946 or buy online at www.huntersinteriorsofstamford.co.uk.

Sofa, so good...

Discover the Delcor Difference with sofas and chairs designed exclusively for you from frame to fabric, leather to legs, padding to piping...

You’ll be sitting pretty this season when you create a completely one-off, totally bespoke chair or suite from Delcor. The Stamford retailer allows you to create your perfect sofa, compromise free, and with a remarkable 50 year guarantee!

IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERSTATE just how great Stamford sofa retailer Delcor is. Whether you’re looking for a sofa or chair that’s beautifully made, one that’s completely unique, one that’s great value or one that comes with a best-inindustry 50-year guarantee, you’ll be impressed with Delcor, and delighted with the service the company offers. The Delcor Difference is that all of its sofas are designed exclusively for you. Choose from over 50 different sofa or chair styles, then choose from over 10,000 different fabrics and leathers from designers like Osborne & Little, Colefax & Fowler, GP&J Baker, Harlequin and many more. You can change the filling of your sofa and chair – firmer or softer – and make centimetre-accurate adjustments to its overall dimensions too. >>

Opposite: Soho corner unit in red weave fabric with contemporary chrome feet. Top: Victorian sofa in plaid. Above: Chelsea fixed-back in Chartreuse fabric.

>> Next, customise your sofa or chair with cushion buttons, eight different colours of timber for its legs, castors in your chosen material, arm covers, scatter cushions and so on.

Beyond choice though, Delcor’s products are made in England by proper old-school craftsmen and women. Solid timber frames are selected and cut at the firm’s own sawmills and each piece is guaranteed to last a lifetime, with a refurbishment service available should you wish to give your sofa a mid-life refresh. Delcor was established in 1967 and was taken over by its current owners Rick and Janet Petini following a management buyout in 2009. The company has five showrooms in London, Oxfordshire, Northumberland, Cheshire and Stamford, each sharing an ethos that’s better for the consumer than the ‘fast furniture’ ethos of furniture warehouses, with ‘built to last’ and ‘made in England’ qualities at the brand’s heart.

In Stamford, Kathleen Wilkinson and the team help to design a completely one-off sofa and have over 50 different designs in store to help you create the sofa or chair that suits your lifestyle. The firm helps customers to create dining chairs, divans, bed frames and blanket boxes, ensuring that your sitting rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms can all enjoy the pleasure and peace of mind that comes from a brands like Delcor and its philosophy of quality. n Delcor’s ethos is better for the consumer than the ‘fast furniture’ ethos of furniture warehouses, with ‘built to last’ and ‘made in England’ qualities at the brand’s heart...

Above: Delcor Chesterfield in velvet fabric. Opposite: Eton sofa in pink fabric, Pavilion in grey, Natasha snuggler chair, Ridley suite in white and lemon.

The Delcor Difference

Each of Delcor’s products are crafted in the company’s own Northumberland workshops. Choose your frame style,filling, fabric or leather and the finer details to create a bespoke sofa or chair.

Find Out More: Delcor creates bespoke sofas, chairs, divans and upholstered beds, and has a showroom on Bath Row, Stamford PE9 2QX. Call 01780 762579 or see delcor.co.uk/Delcor/Stamford.

DELIGHTING in DETAIL

When Kirsty Sydenham came to commission her new kitchen, she found herself considering details that she’d never even thought about... thanks to the meticulous, forensic and assiduous talents of Leicester-based cabinet makers Moir Wade...

“They were forensic!” says Kirsty Sydenham with a smile. We’re discussing her recently completed brand new kitchen, a room that much thought has been invested in, to say the least. That’s because Kirsty chose Leicester’s Moir Wade when she decided to commission a new kitchen, and was thoroughly impressed by the firm’s attention to detail. “The house is only 20 years old, so its original kitchen was still in place,” says Kirsty. “And whilst the previous owners had ensured the rest of the house was in good order, the kitchen looked like it was going to be the last bit of an overall refurbishment.” “It’s probably wise. The kitchen is perhaps the most important element of your home, one that has to look right, but function well too, and it’s the most expensive room in your home to redesign.” “I’m quite glad I got the opportunity to start from fresh with the kitchen as it’s a really personal room. I’d seen Moir Wade’s work before and I liked the company’s style, so when I was building a new extension for the kitchen I enlisted their help and it turned out to be a really good decision.” Kirsty’s project involved installing a new kitchen, utility and shower room in her modern family home, a property she’d moved into from a larger, older country property. The goal was to achieve quality and create a solid, high contemporary inframe shaker kitchen in the style that would reflect the modernity of the property. >>

Left: Kirsty Sydenham commissioned an in-frame shaker kitchen from Leicester-based Moir Wade for an extension in her modern property... the baby-pink Aga was the pièce de résistance of the project!

>> “Right from the start Moir Wade were absolutely brilliant to work with,” says Kirsty. “Jonathan joined the project when the extension was planned but still made some constructive suggestions as to how its design could be tweaked, changes which were well worth making and resulted in a better layout both for the kitchen and its utility room.” “I was really pleased with how invested in the project they were and how involved they were in getting the planning right. I really do belive that the extra expense of a bespoke kitchen, one designed as well as this one has been, is justified because I’ll be happier with it for years to come.” “I wanted a room that had a sense of luxury, but one that was practical too. My children are 12 & 16, and we have dogs too, so the place had to stand up to the rigours of family life, and I really think it will.” “From the height of the shelves in the cupboards to the intricate joints of the cabinets, everything was meticulous. Jonathan must have visited ten or 15 times dropping off samples, checking on the project and measuring. I was really impressed with the speed and ease of the eventual installation, and no detail was overlooked.”

“The cabinetry is solid oak painted in twotone Mole’s Breath and Ammonite shades. The surfaces are Kenilworth quartz and there are integrated Siemens appliances.”

The company was founded in 2002 by brothers-in-law Jonathan Wade – who liaises with customers and designs spaces for clients – and Will Moir, who heads up a six-strong workshop team and oversees the meticulous standards of quality and craftsmanship.

Working with budgets between £40,000 and £60,000, Moir Wade is one of the area’s most recommendable firms, creating everything from a classic in-frame shaker kitchen to dramatic contemporary kitchens more modern properties... with, Kirsty says, exceptional attention to detail.

“We even ended up moving the lights because originally they wouldn’t have been evenly aligned over the island... consideration of details like that are the reason I’m so delighted with the result.” n