Gilded Bed Tester – a very bespoke brief! Our client presented us with a tear sheet from one of the home interest glossies. She was scrupulously restoring her early 19th century Grade II listed hall, and had found a look that captured the very essence of what she wanted for her the master bedroom – ...
It’s great when an old friend gets in touch – the icing on the cake is when a curtain conundrum has given them an excuse to pick up the phone! So a short trip down the M5 to beautiful Cheltenham revealed the problem. The old roman blinds in the Sitting Room bay windows of ...
We’ve done a lot of electrical blind installations in and around London, but last week’s install was a little different. Different because our client, concerned about security in their new kitchen, had the presence of mind to ask if they could have a timer switch with their new Somfy roller blinds that we were soon ...
On a recent home consultation we were advising our client of the various ways of spanning a 4 metre recess in their drawing room. Client had recently removed the fussy pelmets they had inherited when they had bought the property – a stunning mansion nestled in the Northamptonshire countryside, and they were keen to replace them ...
When you’re planning home renovations or starting from scratch with a new build, it’s easy to get mired in the detail of the build – through tireless meetings with architects, builders and contractors. With money seemingly leaving your pocket like water through a sieve, the tendency is to leave soft furnishings right until the end. But ...
A London client recently got in touch with us for help with soft furnishings for their gorgeous Tudor cottage in the heart of Surrey. Old buildings present a host of challenges. Single glazed windows (normally protected by Listed status) and wattle and daub walls that are to draught like water is to a sieve in ...
In October 2013 we were contacted by a couple in Oxford who had installed a stunning kitchen extension on the back of their town house. The kitchen and TV room both now featured a combination of bifold and sliding doors (the kitchen is pictured below). The TV room, just out of shot, left, in the ...
I have to say this one tested us a bit! Our client living in the suburbs of Bath wanted to introduce curtains to her conservatory, to create a warmer, cosier environment in a room that serves as a toddler’s playroom by day and doubles up as a lovely dining area by night. The conservatory was ...
What to say about electric (or motorised) roller blinds? They’re not cheap, but perhaps not as expensive as you thought? They’ve not exactly flooded middle England in the way that perhaps shutters have over the last 10 years – they remain very much the preserve of a young(ish) audience who appreciate technology and how it ...
We’ve blogged before about the challenges presented by square bay windows. Curtains are the obvious solution to get round the problem of how to dress the tricky right angles between the side and back windows in the bay. But there are two problems here. Firstly, there often isn’t enough stacking space for the curtain to draw back into ...
