Six homes around Larkhaven: whole houses, single rooms and short colour consultations. Each one started with a conversation about how the people in it actually live.
The house sits at the edge of a birch wood, so the windows were always going to be the main event. We kept the walls pale and the furniture low, and pulled everything toward the wood stove.
A family kitchen that had to work hard and still feel calm. Appliances sit behind full-height doors, and the island carries the warmth: oak, softly rounded, long enough for homework and dinner prep at once.
A narrow upstairs bathroom reworked around one long basin. Fewer, heavier materials (stone, cast concrete, dark metal) so the room reads as one quiet surface rather than a collection of fixtures.
Two bedrooms built around colour. A clay-brown wall in the primary room makes it feel enclosed and restful; the guest room stays lighter, with wood and linen doing the work.
A ground floor opened up into one long run of rooms. We drew the new arch, held the trades schedule together and kept the old house's proportions, so the work looks like it was always there.
A two-session consultation for a small cottage. One deep olive green carried through the sitting room, with rattan, old books and pale oak to keep it from feeling heavy.