Living room with a built-in oak bench running to full-height garden doors

Private home, full interior

A House in Wood and Concrete

A whole house held together by one material story: oak joinery, plaster walls and a grey-brown palette that stays calm from room to room.

The brief was a house that felt finished rather than furnished, so the joinery was designed as part of the architecture instead of arriving after it. Oak runs from the living room bench through to the bedroom wardrobes, and everything around it stays inside one narrow range of plaster, concrete grey and warm brown.

Scope: Full interior design, from layout to fitted joinery
Rooms: Living room, main bedroom and second bedroom
Materials: Oak, plaster, stone and linen in a warm grey-brown palette
Stage: To be confirmed

Window seat with oak storage below, framed by plants and soft daylight — The window seat turns the depth of the wall into storage, so the living room gains somewhere to sit without gaining another piece of furniture.

Main bedroom with a full oak headboard wall and layered linen bedding — A full oak headboard wall does the work of a bedhead, two side tables and the art above them, which is what keeps the main bedroom this quiet.

Second bedroom with fitted oak wardrobes and a desk under the window — Fitted wardrobes run flush up to the window in the second bedroom, so the desk sits in the daylight instead of against a dark wall.

Floor plan of the house with the furniture layout drawn in — The furniture was drawn into the plan before anything was ordered, which is how the circulation got tested while changing it still cost nothing but a pencil line.

The house reads as a single idea from room to room because the joinery, the wall finish and the floor were specified together rather than chosen one after another. That is also what makes it easy to live in: nearly everything has somewhere to go.