If you are lucky enough to live in a house with a bit of history, you have a unique opportunity to reconnect with the origins of your home and celebrate the life it has had by restoring, reinstating and re-establishing its heritage through the design of your interior spaces.
In Britain, we are fortunate to have a range of architectural periods across our buildings which can be seen in the variety of house styles we can see in our towns and cities and sometimes these can vary from one side of town to the other and even from one end of the street to another! We can see, through these changes, the development of our towns and how tastes and styles developed over time.
I am not a historian or a restoration expert, but I love the character of buildings and the unique features which can be discovered while renovating a property. These features were carefully crafted as fashionable design details from the time they were built, and while every feature may not align with our own contemporary aesthetic ideals, embracing one or two features as part of our renovations can enrich and authenticate our designs.
These projects can be extremely rewarding, whether scouring antiques shops for furniture, updating a stained glass window to match your home’s colour scheme, or sourcing toggle light switches to replace originals found in your loft. By picking and choosing the details you like the most, rather than creating a complete historical homage to the original house, you create your own uniquely personal interior, enhancing all the features you like in the home and a space which represents you as well as the history of the building
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