Wilmslow is roughly twenty minutes from the showroom and mixes Georgian and Victorian property around the centre and Fulshaw with a great deal of twentieth-century and modern detached housing out towards Lindow and Styal.
Two quite different jobs, then. Period houses in Wilmslow tend to need window treatments and lighting resolved carefully, because the rooms were built for a different way of living. Modern detached houses more often need warmth and texture (fabric, rugs, layered lighting and artwork), because the architecture supplies volume but not much character on its own.
A good many Wilmslow projects begin with curtains and end up broader, because window treatments force decisions about colour and light that the rest of the room then has to answer. It is a sensible place to start if you are not yet sure how far you want to go.
The showroom is at York House, Vicarage Lane, Bowdon WA14 3BA, open Monday to Saturday 9am to 5pm. More about the showroom.
Two different jobs in one town
Georgian and Victorian property around the centre and Fulshaw needs its window treatments and lighting resolved carefully, because the rooms were built for a different kind of living and for far less electric light than we now use. Getting those two right does most of the work.
The twentieth-century and modern housing around the town needs warmth and texture instead: fabric, rugs, layered lighting and artwork, because the architecture supplies volume but not much character on its own.
Twenty minutes, and what that changes
Close enough that a scheme can move at the pace of decisions rather than deliveries. Samples come out to the house, and the showroom is used for the comparisons that need everything side by side.
Most Wilmslow projects start with one or two rooms and grow, which is a good way to work: the first room establishes what you actually like, and the rest becomes much quicker.
Questions we get asked
Do you work on both period and modern houses?
Yes, and they are genuinely different jobs. The approach is set by the house rather than by a house style.
Where should we start?
Usually the room you use most in the evening. It has the biggest effect on how the house feels.
Can you help with artwork as well?
Yes. The artwork is made by the designer rather than sourced. See contemporary art for interiors.