Luxury Interior Design
How interiors are specified, when carpentry has to be ordered, and what styling actually covers.
In this guide
32 min · 5 articles
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Specifying a Kitchen That Lasts
A kitchen dates through its hardware and its layout, not its colour. Get the working triangle, the ventilation and the storage heights right and the room will still work in fifteen years. Order it early — carpentry is a long-lead item and is the most common cause of a late handover.
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Lighting a Landed House
Most houses are lit for the photograph and not for the evening. A good scheme has three layers — ambient, task and accent — on separate circuits, warm enough at night, and with almost nothing pointing down from the centre of the ceiling. It is decided at first fix, months before anyone chooses a fitting.
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Furnishing a House You Just Built
Start with the three pieces you already love and plan around them. A house furnished entirely at once, from one supplier, reads as a showroom — and showrooms are impossible to live in and impossible to add to.
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Reading Design Trends Without Following Them
Ask what is driving a trend and where in the house it would sit. Shifts driven by climate, cost, technology or how people actually live tend to last; shifts driven by novelty pass. Adopt trends in the layer you can change in an afternoon — furniture, textiles, paint — and be sceptical of them in stone, carpentry and structure.
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How to Design Interiors That Last
Interiors age badly when their character depends on something briefly fashionable, and well when it depends on proportion, light and material. Let the architecture carry the room, keep the permanent layer neutral and the replaceable layer personal, restrict the palette to three or four materials, get proportion right, and let one element in each room do the work.
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