Work journal · Residential
Prestbury Family Home
A substantial family home, reimagined top to bottom for the way they really live.
Elegant, warm, and built to be properly lived in.
This was a full-home project, every room, top to bottom. The family wanted somewhere that felt elegant and grown-up, but that could still take everything a busy family life throws at it. That’s my favourite kind of brief: beautiful, but real.
- Location
- Prestbury
- Discipline
- Residential interior design
- Scope
- Full home design & renovation
- Year
- 2025
The brief
We took on the whole house, from the sweeping entrance hall to the children’s bedrooms, with one rule running through all of it: nothing precious. Every room had to look beautiful and work hard, with a warm, tonal palette and natural materials tying the home together so it feels considered from the front door up.
Back to brick
First, the hard work nobody sees. We stripped rooms back, reworked the structure and the flow, laid new floors and ran all the services, so everything that came after sat on solid foundations.
Before & after
From a bare staircase to a hall that stops you in your tracks.
The staircase pendants were the moment I was most excited about. Each piece of glass was hand-blown, then hung individually to cascade down through the stairwell, the first thing you see, and the thing everyone remembers.
Behind the scenes
From concept to completion.
Every room begins as a concept, layouts, joinery, materials and lighting all worked out before anything is fitted. Here’s one of the principal-suite drawings next to the finished room, so you can see how closely the two line up.
Our approach
I always design around the people who’ll live there. For this family, that meant a home that feels calm and grown-up but never off-limits, a confident, consistent palette from room to room, natural textures you want to reach out and touch, and lighting that makes every space feel warm. And so much of it was made to measure, the kitchen, the cabinetry, the panelling and a showstopping book-matched marble feature, because bespoke joinery is what makes a house feel truly finished, rather than just furnished. Refined and timeless, but never precious.
The living spaces
Layered, tactile and endlessly comfortable, the rooms the family actually lives in, day to day.
Family living
Built-in joinery, a proper fireplace, and the kind of seating you sink right into at the end of a long day.
Kitchen, dining & bar
The heart of the home, open and sociable, with a formal dining room and bar for when the occasion calls for it.
The principal suite
A calm, hotel-like retreat for the grown-ups, from the bedroom through to the marble ensuite.
The boy's bedroom
A room built for adventure, a hand-painted sky of vintage planes and hot-air balloons, a soft blue bespoke headboard, and plenty of room to play.
The girl's bedroom
Soft, pretty and a little bit magical, a scalloped blush headboard, delicate butterflies and a sweet dressing area to grow into.
