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Room and garden inspiration

I’m just starting out, so there’s no long list of finished homes here yet. What you’ll find instead are concept boards, the sort of thing that lands in your inbox at the start of a project. They’ll give you a good feel for how I design and the kind of spaces I love. As real projects finish, and only ever with the client’s blessing, they’ll go up here too.

Concept boards

This is where your design would start

These aren’t photographs of finished rooms, they’re concept visuals. A board like this is the first thing you’d see when we begin, and it’s where we agree the direction together before any of the detail is settled. Yours would land in , ready for your thoughts.

Concept visual for a calm living room with a sage green wall, cream linen sofa, olive tree and oak table

Concept visual

A calm living room

Sage walls, a cream linen sofa and an oak table, worked around the light the room already gets. The olive tree sits in the corner that catches the most sun, which is the only spot it would do well in.

Concept visual for a calm Scandinavian and Japandi bedroom with a sage green wall, oak bed, cream linen bedding, a jute rug and an olive tree

Concept visual

A restful bedroom

A soft sage wall, pale oak and rumpled linen, kept deliberately spare so the room can breathe. Planned around the morning light, with a corner given over to something green.

Concept visual for a warm modern Mediterranean dining nook with lime-washed plaster, an arched niche, an oak table, rattan chairs, terracotta pots and olive branches

Concept visual

A warm Mediterranean nook

A warmer scheme, for anyone drawn to the Mediterranean end of things. Lime-washed plaster, an oak table, rattan and terracotta, with olive branches in a stoneware jug. Calm and sun-washed, and built for long lunches.

Concept visual of a soft, homely sitting room with a curved cream armchair, a floral cushion, an aged pine dresser, garden flowers in a stoneware jug and a jute rug

Concept visual

A soft, homely sitting room

The gentler end of the studio, where modern farmhouse meets a little cottagecore. Curved shapes, aged pine and one floral cushion doing the work, so the room feels collected over time rather than bought in one go.

Concept visual of a walled courtyard with lime-washed cream walls, climbing white roses, a rattan sofa with cream linen cushions, wall lanterns, terracotta pots of olive and lavender, and white hydrangeas

Concept visual

A walled courtyard, softened

Four walls can feel like a box or a room, and the difference is what you grow up them. Roses and jasmine take the hard edges off, the seating faces the last of the sun, and everything else lives in terracotta so it can shift as the garden settles.

Concept visual of deep flower borders full of white hydrangeas, roses, foxgloves and grasses around a small stone terrace with a teak bench, cream cushions and lanterns

Concept visual

Borders you can sit inside

Most gardens push the seating to the edge and the flowers to the fence. This does the opposite. The bench sits within the planting, so you are surrounded by it rather than looking at it from a distance, and it is chosen to flower right through the season.

Concept visual of a balcony at dusk with a rattan two-seater, cream cushions, festoon lights, a slat screen with jasmine, a potted olive tree, ferns, grasses and a herb trough

Concept visual

A balcony that feels like a room

Small does not have to mean sparse. Everything is in containers, so it suits a rental and comes with you, and the planting is deliberately generous, because a balcony feels bigger when it is green on every side rather than tidy and bare.

Concept visual of a sun-baked gravel terrace with lavender, santolina and rosemary, terracotta pots of olive and fig, low rattan seating with cream cushions and a stone water bowl

Concept visual

A sun-baked gravel terrace

For the plot that bakes all afternoon and defeats everything you plant in it. Gravel keeps the roots cool and the weeds down, the planting is chosen to enjoy the heat rather than survive it, and once it is settled it needs very little water.

Concept visual of an outdoor dining terrace under an oak pergola at dusk, with wisteria overhead, festoon lights, a long table with linen cushions, lavender beds and potted olives

Concept visual

Supper under the pergola

A garden built around eating outside. The pergola gives the table a roof and something for wisteria to climb, the festoon lights make it work long after the sun has gone, and lavender either side means you smell it before you sit down.

Concept visual of an outdoor kitchen at dusk with a built-in barbecue in warm stone, an oak pergola with climbing roses and festoon lights, a round table with rattan chairs, hydrangeas and potted olives

Concept visual

An outdoor kitchen for the summer

For anyone who ends up cooking outside every time the sun appears. The run of worktop and storage means you are not carrying everything back and forth, the table sits close enough to talk while you cook, and the lighting keeps it going well past dusk.

Concept visual of a long table with rattan chairs set on a lawn beneath a mature tree, lit by festoon lights and candles, with white hydrangeas, grasses and potted olives behind

Concept visual

A long table under the tree

The tree you already have is usually the best room in the garden. Lights strung through the branches and a table underneath turn it into somewhere to eat all summer, with no building work and nothing permanent to undo.

Concept visual of an outdoor lounge with a lit stone firepit, weatherproof sofas with cream cushions, lanterns, hydrangeas, ferns and grasses beside a curved lawn

Concept visual

A firepit corner for the evening

The bit of the garden you use once everyone else has gone in. A curved sweep of lawn into paving, proper seating rather than a fold-out chair, and hydrangeas and grasses close enough to feel like you are sitting in the planting, not beside it.

Concept visual of a timber-framed open-sided garden room with a lit stone fireplace, rattan seating with cream cushions, festoon lights, white hydrangeas and climbing roses

Concept visual

An outdoor room with a fire

This is the one that stretches your garden into spring and autumn. A roof over your head and a fire in the corner means you use it in October, not just in July. It is a proper build though, so it suits owners rather than renters.

Concept visual of a shaded Mediterranean courtyard terrace with lime-washed walls, an arched opening, a grape vine canopy, rattan seating, terracotta pots of olive, rosemary and fig

Concept visual

A shaded Mediterranean terrace

For a suntrap that needs somewhere to hide at midday. A vine trained overhead does the shading, lime-washed walls bounce the light around, and everything else lives in terracotta, so it can be moved as the garden settles.

Concept visual of a rattan garden daybed with cream cushions under a timber frame hung with linen curtains and lanterns, surrounded by white hydrangeas, ferns and climbing roses

Concept visual

A daybed in the shade

Somewhere to read for an hour and lose the afternoon. The linen curtains are doing real work here, cutting the glare and the breeze, and they draw back when you want the sun. Nothing is fixed, so the whole corner can move.

Concept visual of a garden swing seat with cream cushions under a timber frame with linen curtains and hanging lanterns, surrounded by white hydrangeas, roses, ferns and lavender

Concept visual

A swing seat to disappear into

Every garden deserves one spot that is just for sitting. Linen curtains soften the frame and give you somewhere out of the wind, lanterns take over as the light goes, and the planting is deliberately close, so you feel tucked into the garden rather than parked on it.

Thinking about your own space?

Send me photographs or a video of your room or garden, along with a note about what you’d like it to become. I reply personally within a working day, and there’s no obligation on either side.

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