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.

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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.

Recent work from the studio

A few rooms from recent projects. They were not all photographed in Wilmslow, but they are the standard of finish the work is held to, and every piece in them was chosen in the Bowdon showroom.

Kitchen with a marble island and brass pendant lights
Kitchen island with bar seating below pendant lighting
Kitchen with a backlit geometric wall panel above the worktop
Open-plan kitchen and dining space below a roof lantern
Handleless units and integrated ovens along the working run
Open-plan living and kitchen space with a marble island
Kitchen island with a lit textured front and a linear pendant above
Open-plan living area with a patterned corner sofa and the kitchen beyond
Open-plan sitting area looking through to the kitchen
Open-plan living and dining space with full-height glazing to the garden
Open-plan living space with a feature wall and garden doors
Galley kitchen with a lit stone splashback and a curved breakfast bar

Rooms we design

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

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.

Recent projects across Cheshire

None of these is in Wilmslow, but they are the kind of work the studio takes on and the standard every job is held to.

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