SBID International Design Awards Finalist 2026 | Residential House over 1M

Winner Best Interior Design 2025 Northern Design Awards

SECTOR: High end residential

Bespoke Kitchen Design

Interior Design

Floor planning

Styling

Bathroom Design

Bespoke Joinery Design

Sourcing

This luxury interior design project in Aberdyfi, Wales brings refined materiality, layered texture and considered restraint to high-end residential living.

Set against the backdrop of the Welsh coast, this project was about creating a home that felt both luxurious and deeply personal. The brief was clear: timeless comfort, layered textures, and a sense of quiet ease that matched the pace of coastal living.

We worked with a muted, natural palette, deep taupes, whites, soft yellows, greens, soft linens, warm timbers, balancing elegance with grounding materials that would wear beautifully over time. Low-level lighting was introduced to soften the evenings, while bespoke details gave each room its own sense of identity.

The design holds contrast: a living space that feels expansive yet intimate, a bedroom that balances simplicity with indulgence, and details that reveal themselves slowly rather than shouting for attention.

This is a house designed not just to be seen, but to be lived in. Calm, layered, quietly luxurious, an interior that reflects both its setting and its owners, perfectly at home in Aberdyfi.

SECTOR: High end residential

Interior Design

Floor planning

Styling

Bespoke Joinery Design

Sourcing

Situated in a distinguished historic building in the heart of Liverpool, this apartment celebrates architectural proportion and tactile materiality. The design approach was intentionally restrained: to let light and space shape the experience, and to encourage stillness, rather than overwhelm the eye.

A considered palette of warm neutrals — limestone, soft plaster, faded taupe and ash timber — creates continuity throughout the home. Textures, not colour contrasts, build depth: nubby linens, washed leathers, sculpted plaster, and quietly grained woods. Each surface feels lived-in, familiar, and composed.

In the principal living space, tall windows draw daylight deep into the plan, animating surfaces and accentuating the calm rhythm of form. Custom joinery sits quietly against walls, balancing utility with restraint and allowing negative space to become part of the architecture.

Furnishings are measured and purposeful — low silhouettes, muted upholstery, natural fibres — creating intimacy without clutter. Lighting is layered to shift the mood subtly through the day, from bright and precise to soft and inviting.

This is a home that feels instinctively right from the first moment — serene, materially rich and quietly assured. It honours the building’s heritage while introducing a nuanced contemporary calm.

Llwyn Offa — Listed Country House, Wales

Sector: Commercial hospitality

A Grade II listed country house in Wales, designed as a high-end commercial holiday let and event venue. The brief was to honour the building's history while creating a space that felt genuinely alive — somewhere guests could spread out, exhale, and feel at home in a way that had nothing to do with five-star hotel polish.

The design holds the original character of the house intact: servants' bells, open fireplaces, bespoke wooden shutters, a curated collection of Welsh art and objects collected with the place in mind. Nothing was introduced to impress. Everything was introduced to belong.

A palette of warm, layered materials — aged timbers, plaster, stone, soft textiles — creates depth without heaviness. Rooms feel distinct but coherent, each with its own atmosphere, none competing with the architecture around them. The scale of the house is tempered throughout: large spaces made intimate, every room somewhere you'd actually want to stay.

The property now hosts weddings, celebrations and events alongside private stays, and consistently receives reviews that name the interiors as the reason it exceeded expectations.

"Stunning — even better than the pictures."

"Every single room is designed and beautifully decorated. The house truly is breathtaking."

"Despite the huge size, it's so cosy — the nicest kitchen I've ever seen."

"A Welsh country home that perfectly balances contemporary living with character, craftsmanship and a deep connection to its surroundings. Every corner feels calm, layered and intentionally designed."

When asked how they hope guests feel, the owners said: "Like they can breathe. At home, but with just more of it. There's a difference between a house that looks impressive and a home that feels right. It's not matchy matchy. It's not trend-led. It's got soul."

That was the brief. And the measure of whether it worked.

Llwyn Offa — Listed Country House, Wales

Sector: Commercial hospitality

A Grade II listed country house in Wales, designed as a high-end commercial holiday let and event venue. The brief was to honour the building's history while creating a space that felt genuinely alive — somewhere guests could spread out, exhale, and feel at home in a way that had nothing to do with five-star hotel polish.

The design holds the original character of the house intact: servants' bells, open fireplaces, bespoke wooden shutters, a curated collection of Welsh art and objects collected with the place in mind. Nothing was introduced to impress. Everything was introduced to belong.

A palette of warm, layered materials — aged timbers, plaster, stone, soft textiles — creates depth without heaviness. Rooms feel distinct but coherent, each with its own atmosphere, none competing with the architecture around them. The scale of the house is tempered throughout: large spaces made intimate, every room somewhere you'd actually want to stay.

The property now hosts weddings, celebrations and events alongside private stays, and consistently receives reviews that name the interiors as the reason it exceeded expectations.

"Stunning — even better than the pictures."

"Every single room is designed and beautifully decorated. The house truly is breathtaking."

"Despite the huge size, it's so cosy — the nicest kitchen I've ever seen."

"A Welsh country home that perfectly balances contemporary living with character, craftsmanship and a deep connection to its surroundings. Every corner feels calm, layered and intentionally designed."

When asked how they hope guests feel, the owners said: "Like they can breathe. At home, but with just more of it. There's a difference between a house that looks impressive and a home that feels right. It's not matchy matchy. It's not trend-led. It's got soul."

That was the brief. And the measure of whether it worked.

Luxury Cabin, Wales

Sector: Commercial hospitality

A boutique retreat in the Welsh landscape, designed to feel like a considered home rather than a holiday let — somewhere guests arrive and immediately exhale.

The brief was restraint: to let the landscape lead, and to build an interior that felt quietly exceptional without announcing itself. Natural materials throughout — timber, tile, linen — chosen for texture and longevity rather than trend. A bespoke kitchen designed to be both beautiful and genuinely used. A tiled fireplace that anchors the space without dominating it. Every decision made with the guest experience in mind, not the photograph.

The result is a space that has proven itself commercially as well as creatively. Featured in Enki, The Sunday Times and The Times — included in the 25 best cabins in the UK — and a finalist in the Northern Design Awards for best interior design in hotel and lodging.

Café, Birmingham

Sector: Commercial hospitality

A commercial space created from a former post office in Bournville, Birmingham — designed not just to serve coffee, but to give a community somewhere to belong.

The building had its own character and the design began there. Original parquet flooring, an old safe, the proportions of a period space that had been something else before — all of it kept, celebrated, made central. Nothing was imposed on the building that the building didn't already suggest.

A bespoke counter, handmade Moroccan tiles, warm materials layered throughout. The result is a space that feels rooted rather than installed — somewhere with history and warmth, where the design earns its place rather than performing it.

The brief was simple: make everyone feel welcome. That turned out to be the hardest and most important thing to get right.

Country Cottage, Shropshire

Sector: Commercial hospitality / private residential

A heritage cottage in Shropshire, designed for a client who wanted something that felt genuinely contemporary without erasing what the building already was.

That tension — between the age of the structure and the life being lived in it — was the brief. Not a restoration. Not a renovation that pretends the old parts aren't there. Something that holds both at once: the patina and the precision, the original fabric and the clean line placed deliberately against it.

The result is a space that reads as calm and considered rather than period or trend-led. Natural materials throughout, chosen to age well and sit quietly alongside the character of the building. Light handled carefully — a cottage that could easily feel dark made to feel open without losing its sense of shelter.

Originally operated as a high-end commercial holiday let, now returned to private use — proof, if proof were needed, that the same design thinking applies equally to both.

SECTOR: Residential

Interior Design

Sourcing

Bespoke Joinery Design

This luxury Victorian extension interior design project in Cheshire creates refined, high-end residential interiors that balance heritage architecture with contemporary restraint, warmth and thoughtful material layering.

The minimal style black kitchen units and white island were softened through the use of warm parquet wood flooring, warm tones in the snug and lots of textures.

With a mix of high street and high end furniture we have created a comfortable family space without compromising on style

If you would like to see more photos of the project in Cheshire, including lots of before photos, then head across to my blog here

SECTOR: Residential

•. Project co-ordination

•. Floor plans

• Kitchen Design

• Bathroom Design

•. Interior Design

• Sourcing

•. Styling

• Curtains & Blinds

Featured in both Grand Designs, Homebuilding & Renovating and 25 Beautiful Homes magazine and awarded the Readers choice award in the Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating competition and highly commended for Best Renovation.

This luxury Victorian cottage interior design project brings heritage charm together with refined contemporary design, creating a high-end residential renovation defined by warm materials, layered texture and architectural calm.

The exposed brick work, beams and original curved staircase in the cottage are contrasted against the polished concrete floor and open plan living in the modern extension into the adjoining cow shed.

For more on this project head across to the blog to see all the photos

SECTOR: Residential Design

• Interior Design

• Sourcing

•. Bespoke Joinery

• Styling

•. Sourcing

Set within a substantial luxury property in Alderley Edge, this project centred on creating warmth within scale. With a generous footprint and expansive proportions, the brief was to establish a home that felt refined yet deeply liveable — elevated, but grounded in family life.

Rather than emphasise grandeur, the design focused on intimacy. Spatial flow was softened through considered zoning and layered materiality, allowing each area to feel connected yet distinct. The aim was to temper scale with atmosphere.

Materiality as foundation

A palette of warm neutrals and natural materials anchors the interior. Timber, stone and tactile textiles introduce depth and quiet cohesion throughout. Texture carries the design — woven fabrics, softened finishes and subtle tonal shifts creating warmth without heaviness.

Artwork plays a defining role, thoughtfully curated to bring personality and movement to the architecture. Each piece was selected not as decoration, but as part of the narrative — adding cultural richness and emotional tone.

Lighting was layered to support daily rhythms, shifting from bright and functional to soft and ambient as evening falls.

The result is a home that feels expansive yet enveloping — a high-end family residence shaped by warmth, restraint and a sense of considered permanence.