Colour Consultation St John's Wood

COLOUR CONSULTATION ST JOHN’S WOOD

Injecting colour on a white canvas

This London semi-detached house benefited from colour consultations and structural alterations in the last decade. The ground floor was opened up and extended to create a modern Bulthaup styled, open plan floor with kitchen, dining, family snug and garden room.

A rear extension added two bathrooms and the roof conversion created a generous master suite with bedroom, bathroom and dressing room. While these works added valuable additional space, the interior decoration was kept white and plain.

The clients appointed us for a full house Interior Design project. The brief was to sympathetically update the interiors with a view to creating a vibrant, practical and sustainable home suited to the lifestyle of this family with three young children.

LAYERING COLOURS TEXTURES AND PATTERNS

Colour Consultation St John’s Wood

The first step in a project such as this is to study and analyse all the spaces in the house. We consider the architecture and its details, the artworks and furniture, the materials, fabrics and rugs, the toys and accessories. Then we listen to the client’s ideas, lifestyle and aspirations and take the time to engage in conversations, sharing our analysis of the spaces.

We propose where we would add splashes of colour, where we might use textures, wallpapers or other materials.  Claudia’s approach is to carefully curate a colour palette which will feel organically grown and not look ‘designed’; the key is to be varied and bold yet consistent and complementary with each other and with existing furnishings. In this case we kept the ground floor and staircase walls white, but we installed bold patterned and textured wallpapers on the upper floors.

We injected colour on woodwork, carpets, staircase runners, radiators, windows and upholstery. We picked yellow and pink as the accent thread that weaves through the house in splashes, while shades of blue and green combined with red and black offer vibrant variations and complement the clients’ artworks.