Cornish holiday home - a view into the new garden room that you can see in the previous post - we created this wonderful new room to take full advantage of the fantastic views across the estuary that were completely invisible from the rather dark existing sitting room. For a large house, the room was really too small - and so by adding a single storey glazed extension we transformed the sense of space and connectivity to the outside that’s so important in a place like this. The decoration is intentionally simple and relaxed - all my favourite things - seagrass carpet, plain and inexpensive arts and crafts furniture, wicker sofas, and you’ll notice a few pops of brilliant colour from my first @wmorrisandco collaboration that I was working on at the time. It’s wonderful to see how this simple ingredients work in a space like this - all, I suppose, a question of getting the framework right in the first place. Swipe right to see how the sitting room looked when we first saw it - and the fireplace that we replaced with a simple painted timber design of our own. What these photographs don’t show is the phase of construction when the walls were entirely stripped of a hard cementitious plaster applied in the 70s, so that we could properly line and insulate the house; the floors dug up so that we could install energy efficient underfloor heating, and the south gable wall completely opened up to create the link into the new garden room. There are times in construction when it seems pretty depressing to have gone this far, but it’s so worth it in the end!