Knutsford is about twenty minutes from the showroom, and the housing runs from Georgian and Victorian property in and around the town centre to substantial detached houses on the roads out towards Tatton and Mere, with new build developments added over the last fifteen years.

That range is the reason no single approach suits the town. A Georgian house near King Street and a new build off the Mobberley road need opposite things from a designer: one wants restraint and respect for what is already there, the other wants character introduced deliberately, because a new build supplies none.

The showroom is at York House, Vicarage Lane, Bowdon WA14 3BA, open Monday to Saturday 9am to 5pm. More about the showroom.

Period houses near the town centre

Older Knutsford houses tend to have the proportions people want and the constraints they forget: rooms that are tall but not wide, chimney breasts that eat the only sensible wall, sash windows that will not take a heavy curtain heading without looking wrong, and floors that are not level enough for a fitted run to be ordered off a drawing.

Parts of the centre sit within a conservation area, which affects what can be done outside far more than inside. Internally the work is usually about heating, lighting and storage: adding what a modern household needs without losing what the house is for.

Larger houses and new builds

The bigger detached houses around the town are where whole-house schemes happen, and they are the ones most often furnished a few rooms at a time. The palette has to be decided before the first room, because in a house of that size the rooms are seen through each other, and a hall that fights the sitting room it opens into will look wrong in both.

New builds are the opposite brief. The rooms are square, the finishes are correct and neutral, and everything that gives the house character has to be designed in: joinery, lighting, a wall that does something, and window treatments that soften a lot of glass without darkening it.

A Knutsford project

Photographs from a Knutsford project, room by room. Read the full case study.

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

Rooms we design

Every one of these is designed, supplied and installed for Knutsford houses from the showroom in Bowdon.

Questions we get asked

Do you take on a single room in Knutsford?

Yes, and often that is the sensible way to start: finish one room, live with it, then decide about the next.

How many visits to the house does it take?

Usually one to measure and look at the light, then the work happens in the showroom with the samples in front of you. Twenty minutes each way makes that easy to repeat while a scheme settles.

Can you work with an architect or builder already appointed?

Yes, and it is better early. Lighting circuits, joinery dimensions and window treatments all have to be decided before plastering, not after.

Projects in Knutsford

A whole house furnished and finished throughout, and a single bedroom with hand-made glass leaves above the bed. Both are in Knutsford, and they are a fair picture of the range of work here.

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