House Beautiful (2025)

Recently, our home was featured in Homes & Gardens in a piece exploring the relationship between colour, texture and creating interiors that feel personal rather than overly perfected.

The feature looked at how Rupert and I approached designing our South London family home, balancing contemporary architectural interventions with softer, more layered interiors that feel connected to everyday life.

One of the things I’ve realised whilst designing our own house is that the spaces I’m most drawn to are rarely the ones that feel completely “finished”. They’re the homes that evolve gradually, collecting pieces, materials and stories over time.

Designing A Home With Personality

There can sometimes be pressure within interior design for homes to feel highly resolved or visually perfect, particularly online.

For our own home, that was never really the goal.

Instead, we wanted the interiors to feel warm, relaxed and genuinely reflective of how we live as a family. Spaces that could hold colour, books, art, objects and texture without feeling cluttered or overdesigned.

The house became an exercise in balance: contemporary but not stark, playful but still calm, layered without feeling heavy.

Adding Colour, Texture & Atmosphere To A House

The Homes & Gardens feature focused particularly on the way colour and materiality shape atmosphere within the house.

I’ve always been interested in interiors that feel emotionally warm rather than visually minimal. Often it’s the quieter combinations - softer whites against timber, natural stone beside richer colours, textured fabrics catching changing light throughout the day - that create the strongest sense of comfort within a space.

Many of the design decisions within the house were intuitive rather than trend-led. The focus was less about creating statement moments and more about building an environment that would continue to feel good to live in over time.

A Family Home Designed To Evolve

Designing for family life naturally changes the way you think about interiors.

The spaces needed to feel practical, durable and adaptable whilst still holding personality and softness. We wanted rooms that could cope with the realities of everyday living without becoming overly precious.

That flexibility became an important part of the design process. Rather than treating the house as something static, we approached it as a home that would continue evolving alongside us over the years.

Featured In Homes & Gardens

It was lovely to see the project featured in Homes & Gardens and to reflect on the quieter thinking behind the interiors and how we approached designing a contemporary family home that still feels deeply personal.

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You can read the full feature here:

Homes & Gardens — "We're designers, so knew exactly what we wanted"