Refurbishment and Restore Issue 13 2018 | Page 55

newly created open plan living room space. While Bronwen felt very comfortable with a grey palette, she loved the deep matt lacquer blue of Angus’ own kitchen and unquestionally trusted Clare’s advice to embrace this colour in her home too, resulting in a highly successful design feature. The deep blue wrap around feature wall absorbs the full height living room cabinets, while clearly differentiating the kitchen & dining room from the sitting room within the open plan living space. The colour adds a welcome depth to the scheme, grounding the soft grey oak flooring, light grey walls and matt lacquer grey kitchen. During the building works, Bronwen was faced with continued questions for answers to interior decisions. Clare happily acted as a sounding board, offering up solutions and points to consider to help guide Bronwen to making decisions with confidence. This extended beyond the kitchen design and colour palette for the space to lighting, furniture, window treatments, accessories, decorative details and final styling. Angus & Clare offered the same advice, albeit separately, giving Bronwen the confidence to make bold the design decisions that result in the final interior being such a triumph. Bronwen was the perfect client. By embracing all the design ideas and direction Angus and Clare offered, and by trusting that both understood her brief, the project restrictions and her vision for the home she wanted to create for her and her two boys. For the final touches, Clare called upon the skills of personal friend, blogger and burgeoning Interior Stylist Karen Baldry of @thislittlecorner. A fellow member of the Design Collective Chichester, with both Clare & Angus, Clare could see that Karen’s naturally British ‘Scandi- noir’ style would be prefect to add the final embelishments to the interior. Karen’s touches include the on trend use of trailing plants and succulents to the invaluable familiy noticeboard – sure to keep this busy, tidy family organised. www.refurbandrestore.co.uk - 55