Luxury Interior Design

How interiors are specified, when carpentry has to be ordered, and what styling actually covers.

Living and dining room with suspended glass pendants

18 min · 3 articles

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6 min · 8 July 2026
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.
6 min · 30 May 2026
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.
6 min · 28 April 2026
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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