As you move upstairs and into the guest areas, soundproofing becomes more vital, so the staircases feature 100% wool Fabulous carpet from Crucial Trading, picking up the multitude of colours in the upstairs rooms and complementing the practical wood panelling and glorious feature wallpapers from Masureel and Osborne & Little. Bedrooms have Karndean herringbone wood-effect flooring with a plank border, which is comfortable and warm on the feet and sound absorbent. Te largest of the individually designed bedrooms features two magnificent Christian Lacroix Geisha Prisme rugs, either side of a room divider,
Clockwise from top The private dining cave also features black and white patterned LVT; the staircases are fitted with 100% wool carpet; the bedrooms have Karndean herringbone wood-effect flooring
linking the sleeping and living areas together, while each bathroom is finished with different large-scale wall and floor tiles to introduce even more colour and pattern. Aynsley concludes: ‘Te client did suggest we could do two or three room designs and duplicate them, but every room was a different shape so we were already doing different layouts and joinery detailing for every room anyway, so we thought we could have some fun with the room designs at the same time. And it was really fun! I didn’t want to do the same thing throughout – I like to approach every space and let it tell its own story.’