Displaying posts labeled "Colour"

I couldn’t end the week without a fabulous kitchen diner from London-based Laura Stephens. A delicious combination of yellow, ochre red and natural wood. The room is light-filled and fun with bags of personality. Favourite spot? The pantry of course. You can see more of this colourful West London Terraced House here.

The last time I featured interior designer Laura Stephens’ work it was a quintessential English townhouse. All wallpaper and chintz, overstuffed armchairs and family antiques, lamps with pleated shades on tables, entry hallways leading the eye to stairs with runners, country-style kitchens and roll-top baths. Now if we just add a Cotswold stone historic cottage in an area of outstanding beauty, what do you get? Why just about everyone’s vision of the perfect country bolthole. Welcome to Well Cottage in the Cotswolds.

I am completely mesmerized by the photo above. Enjoy it and many other spaces by British designer Gavin Houghton – known for his bold combinations of both the modern and what is a quintessentially English layered style. Creating for clients’ practical houses that are clever and individual, yet soft, romantic with real charm.

It’s the meeting of two halves. It’s traditional and contemporary, country and coastal, colour and pattern, farmhouse and now event and accommodation space. The whole is a country house chock full of personality and style, strong and bold. Greyleigh in Kiama north of Sydney by Duet.

Photography by Anson Smart

It’s about colour and joy as well as storage and sightlines. This handsome, four-storey Edwardian home exudes comfort and conviviality without compromising on practicality. The ground floor plan was rationalised, storage prioritised with a home for everything and everything in its home as well as lots of opportunities to display the family’s “treasures”. Stamford Brook by London-based Sarah Brown Interiors.