With its swish Georgian proportions and mellow Cotswold stone facade, it’s laborious to consider that this Gloucestershire home was constructed simply 20 years in the past.
‘A variety of consideration had been put into getting each function of the home proper and this actually offered it to our purchasers,’ recounts Taline Findlater of Olivine Design, who collectively together with her co-founder Victoria Grey was enlisted to convey that very same stage of element to the interiors.
‘We wish to create layered areas that mix shade, sample and texture, and these rooms, which have been beforehand all white, appeared to be crying out for this strategy,’ she observes.
Plans for the schemes commenced in March 2020, simply days earlier than the UK entered its first lockdown.
‘The household’s move-in date of July was already somewhat tight and naturally this added one other layer of complexity, as we out of the blue had delays for objects comparable to tiles and tub tubs,’ Victoria remembers, including, ‘happily, we labored with an unimaginable group of builders and tradespeople who have been in a position to step as much as the problem.’
Drawing room
The purchasers, who’ve 4 teenage youngsters in addition to canine and livestock, already possessed plenty of antiques and likewise a a lot cherished assortment of artwork.
‘They’re rightfully happy with their work and these helped inform the schemes,’ notes Taline.
Within the drawing room, for instance, heat stone coloured partitions offset an previous oil portray and a recent work whose vibrant yellow tones have been picked up in a pair of armchairs.
‘We love the stress you get by mixing previous and modern artworks and we’ve got achieved the identical with the ornamental decisions,’ says Taline, declaring a stool upholstered in a neat geometric print, which sits on prime of a classic kilim.
All of the totally different accent patterns work as a result of there’s a frequent blue and crimson theme.
Lounge
Wealthy blues and rust colours are lounge concepts that offset the sunshine that streams by way of the tall home windows.
A lot as they’re one of the interesting options of the home, the tall home windows introduced challenges.
‘We needed to be actually good with the layouts as you couldn’t have furnishings up in opposition to the partitions; we additionally wanted to be conscious of price range when selecting curtain materials, as the lounge home windows alone required 72 meters of cloth,’ factors out Taline.
The answer was to make use of modestly priced materials, complementing them with, say, a reasonably braid on the forefront and backside of the curtains, or – within the case of the eating room – easy ruched pelmets.
All 4 youngsters gave their enter into the design of their new house and that is witnessed not solely of their bedrooms but in addition in sociable areas comparable to the lounge, the place a sturdy espresso desk/ottoman that they might put their ft on was excessive on their listing of priorities.
Kitchen
For anybody in search of a masterclass in painted kitchen concepts, that is it. Each homeowners and designers have been conscious to not waste completely good fittings, in order that they got here up with a plan to maintain the present kitchen cabinetry, enlisting a neighborhood joiner to construct matching tall cabinets and lengthen the island unit to create a convivial seating space full with bar stools.
The black granite counter tops have been changed with pale quartz and fussy handles have been swapped for easy black iron variations.
‘We cleaned up the stone ground by sandblasting it, and painted the joinery a contemporary pale inexperienced – it now seems like a completely new room,’ says Victoria.
The fragile inexperienced paint and pale counter tops have helped remodel the present kitchen.
Primary bed room
Lovely bed room concepts abound: the designers’ skilful ornamental layering is witnessed on this considered mixture of shade and sample, which features a block-printed wallpaper, an vintage Indian silk throw and a superb floral print on the upholstered bench.
Primary toilet
Tiles within the alcove above the self-importance unit and the wing chair’s geometric print introduce ornamental touches.
Dressing space
The partitions and current joinery have been painted inexperienced to introduce a punch of shade.
Toilet
Placing vinyl flooring lends a graphic factor to the toilet concepts on this room beneath the eaves. To reinforce the sense of house, the partitions, ceiling and tub have been all painted the identical plaster pink hue.
‘The homeowners inform us that this has undoubtedly change into the household house that they needed it to be,’ says Taline, including, ‘It’s a colourful but calm backdrop to their busy lives.’
Inside designer/ Olivine Design
Pictures/ Simon Brown
Textual content/ Rachel Leedham
