“When we found the house it felt very unloved,
but there was a sense it was just waiting to be
woken up,” she explains. After a nine month
major overhaul, which involved installing new
central heating, wiring and plumbing, as well as
removing some asbestos flooring, Charlotte was
ready to move the family (Florence, seven, Linus,
five, and two rescued greyhounds, Velvet and
Dash, plus some chickens) in.
with a sense of modern flair and the fact that this
is very much a family home, not a showpiece,”
she explains. “I wanted to maximise the light
in the house so kept the background colours in
most rooms quite muted and brought in colour
with accessories,” she continues They had a lot of
furniture from their previous home to incorporate
so she recovered a lot of their chairs and sofas,
but confesses that she did indulge her weakness
for beautiful wallpapers in a couple of rooms. “I
Charlotte used scrapbooks full of tear sheets and like the odd quirky touch, a little bit of vintage or
photos to make her vision for the property a reality: boho, but not too much…I like houses to look like
“I wanted to achieve a look of classic elegance and homes, and therefore comfortable with style.”
remain true to the style of the architecture, but
53