This Georgian terraced cottage in Chelsea, London, had been decorated in a style that was fashionable in the early 2000s, with white, pared-back interiors. Having decided they wanted a more classic approach, the owners asked interior designer Guy Goodfellow for help. His first intervention was to take down the wall dividing the entrance hall and … Read more
There used to be an old Persian rug hanging on the wall of my husband’s family home. Tattered and worn, its colours faded, it had been passed down through generations of his forebears. Its life had been turbulent: it was one of the few possessions that his Russian great-grandparents had managed to salvage from their … Read more
Grade I-listed Raynham Hall, near Fakenham, Norfolk, was built by Sir Roger Townshend in 1620 and extended by William Kent in the early 1720s. It is one of the earliest neo-Palladian houses in England. A project to repair some of the damage caused by work in the 1950s and 1960s began in 2014 and, when … Read more
When Charlotte Freemantle, who founded the antiques-to-fireplaces specialist Jamb with her husband, Will Fisher, first visited Aldourie Castle in Inverness-shire in 2022, it was clear that, with some decorative encouragement, the room could once again become the beating heart of the house. The project took 18 months and involved taking many rooms back to bare … Read more
It is terribly fashionable to decry the decoration of our homes with cobwebs, bats, spiders, pumpkins, skeletons, witches and ghosts for Hallowe’en. Today’s camp creep-fest is certainly a long way from the turnip carved out slowly with a teaspoon of my Northern childhood. That altogether more austere way of marking All Hallow’s Eve was distinguished … Read more