A house in Knutsford, designed in full. The task was the entire property and the supply of everything in it: furniture, lighting, wall coverings and the accessories that finish a room off.

The house is spacious and well proportioned, and the point of the scheme was not to fill every corner of it. Rooms of that size are easier to get wrong by adding than by leaving alone.

A neutral palette, with the colour in the accessories

The palette is neutral and calm throughout, with splashes of colour and metallic accents brought in through the accessories. That is a deliberate division: the expensive, long-lived pieces stay quiet, and the things that are easy to change carry the colour.

All the furniture was made to order and coordinated in colour and finish with the wall coverings and the window treatments, so the rooms read as one house rather than as a series of separate schemes.

Open-plan living and dining room with garden doors along one wall
Living room with a linear fire and two facing sofas
Sitting room with a wall-hung television and log storage niches
Living room with a copper sculpture and red accents
Silver leather sofa with copper floor lights beside the window
Patterned velvet dining chairs against a neutral window treatment
Seating area with armchairs and a low table by the garden doors
Dining area looking through to the kitchen bar
Tall coloured glass vessels used as a sculptural group
Glass console table below framed abstract artwork
Snug with velvet armchairs and a view through to the hall
Living room with a marble coffee table and the open kitchen beyond

Whole-house projects around Knutsford

Knutsford is a twenty minute drive from the showroom in Bowdon. A whole house is the one brief where the palette has to be decided before any single room is, because the rooms are seen through each other: a hall that fights the sitting room it opens into will look wrong in both.

Houses of this size are usually furnished over a few phases rather than in one delivery, with the rooms that get used first finished first.

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