House Designer

Curtains can make a ceiling look taller, a window look wider and a room feel finished, or do the exact opposite. It comes down to a few measurements most people get wrong. Our designers specify curtains as part of nearly every room scheme, so these are the rules we work to on real projects. And for the fitting detail, we asked Nancy Panther, who runs a family curtain business...

Creating an organised, clutter-free family home can feel like solving a puzzle where the pieces keep multiplying. School bags, toys, shoes, paperwork and the endless kit of daily life all need somewhere to live, and without a plan, every surface becomes the somewhere. The answer is rarely more storage, it is smarter storage, planned around how your family actually moves throu...

Most gardens are used for more than one thing. You want somewhere to eat outside, somewhere for children to play, somewhere to sit quietly, somewhere to grow things. The problem is that without any structure, these different needs end up competing with each other, and the garden never quite works for any of them properly.

Garden zoning is the design approach that solve...

Choosing an exterior colour scheme for a UK home is one of the biggest design decisions you will make, yet it is rarely just about choosing a paint colour. Most homeowners begin by looking at paint charts. We do the opposite. When we design a home’s exterior, colour is usually one of the last decisions we make. We first look at the brickwork, roof, windows, surrounding landsc...

A client in Slovenia found us online, sent through a brief for their front and back garden, and we designed the whole scheme without ever setting foot on the site. No site visits, just drawings, conversations and a shared understanding of how they wanted to live outside. The finished design is one of my favourite examples of what