We came on board at first-fix stage, working alongside the architect and builder to take the house from shell to finished home. The brief was blunt about what to avoid: no generic five-star-hotel gloss. The house needed to impress, certainly, but it also had to feel warm and lived-in, somewhere that read as family rather than showroom.
That meant a genuinely full-service project: kitchen and bathrooms designed and specified from scratch, staircase, hallway and bespoke joinery throughout, curtains, upholstery and flooring chosen room by room, working closely with the lighting designer on every layout.
In the main living room, where a fireplace, garden doors and television all competed for attention, we replaced the classic sofa-and-armchair arrangement with flexible modular seating that could be rebuilt around whichever moment called for it.
An indoor swimming pool, spa, sauna and gym gave the project a different register again – spaces that needed to feel every bit as considered and calm as the reception rooms around them.
Elsewhere in the house, complex home automation works quietly behind the scenes – running the indoor swimming pool, lighting scenes throughout the house, and security, as well as a private cinema room. There, sculpted acoustic panelling and low blue lighting do the technical heavy lifting so convincingly that the room reads as pure atmosphere rather than a fitted-out home theatre.
