How We Transformed a Room I
This room in an 18th century farmhouse had been almost taken down to the bare bones, with the floor refurbished & original old floor boards made good. The original fireplace in Portland stone style remained. Our brief was to create a warm sunny room around the already chosen wall paint with floral curtains as the main design, to then dictate plain & semi-plain fabrics for the new & recovered sofas & cushions. We only needed to look at one fabric for the curtains.
A beautiful embroidered brocade called Margeaux from Voyage with a slightly rucked, creased effect to it that makes it look gracefully old. The corals, greens & golds in the design came in well with the yellow to match the wall paint ‘Yellow Ground’ from Farrow & Ball. We used an aged looking brass reeded pole with ribbed ball finials on the rear window & a gathered pelmet on the large front bay window following the full length contours. Both the pelmets & curtains were made with interlining. The tassel fringe & braid trimmings were from Titley & Marr’s Italian Siola Alois range. The two new sofas – a 3 seater & a 2 1/2 seater were ‘Keats’ from Westcote Design covered in Linwood’s weave ‘Kendall’ with a small sprig motif in a light olive/gold . The existing sofa was recovered by Westcote Design in Linwood’s trellis design ‘Montrose’ in light gold.
Cushions brought colours together with Robert Allen’s minute green/cream check ‘Zara’ sage, Lee Jofa’s ‘Silbury’ Chenille, a richly coloured chenille in spice/corals & a couple of cushions in the main curtain fabric trimmed in cord to match the curtain trims. We think you will agree that this has created a comfortable warm homely atmosphere, whatever the weather! Our customers were delighted with the results.
This is what the rooms looked like before :
and here is what it looks like now :
