Prior to & After: A Soulless Home Gets the ‘More Is More’ Treatment
Côte de Folk creator Sophie Rowell moonlights as a campanologist. Let me conserve you from needing to Google the term and inform you now that a campanologist is one who calls church bells. It might look like an odd side gig for a style stylist-turned-interior designer (called a “Rising Star” by Home & & Garden U.K. in 2015), however one peek at her tasks and it makes good sense: Sophie makes houses sing.
Case in point: this house in a maisonette in Hackney, London, that Sophie created for her customer, Daniela Nardelli, and her pet, Tulip. “The flat, when she purchased it, had in fact been ‘done up’ however not to her taste– it was really medical and did not have soul,” she states (scroll to the bottom to see the “in the past”). So Sophie commenced including color, pattern, texture, and womanhood to the flat. “More is more. My preferred part of the procedure is developing plans and pattern play.”
Listed below, Sophie discusses how she made up a sweet and comfortable very first house for her customer.
Above: Sophie’s preferred part of the task? “I believe the tiled fireplace and the colour scheme in the sitting space,” which was initially a bed room with white wall-to-wall integrated cabinets. “To expose the shape of the initial space and have the ability to include all that texture was a genuine win, whilst still keeping storage on either side however with a far more sophisticated style.” The pink zellige tiles are from Otto Tiles
Above: “The armchair was an old one I discovered on Vinterior that I had actually brought back and reupholstered in Studio Atkinson Checkerboard Material” The side table is from Zara House Above: “I enjoy to see television, however I likewise, as a designer, hate needing to accommodate a huge black box into such a peaceful, stunning plan,” states Sophie. Her service: “wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling drapes for (a) the window and veranda door and (b) to conceal the awful television!”
Above: Sophie likes classic fabrics, especially Kantha quilts from India. “Curtain one over the headboard to develop a makeover with really little cost.” The vintage blue and blue-green quilts here are both from The Potting Shed Folkestone, as is the vase.
Above: About the single drape panel, pinned up on side: “We were lacking budget plan and time, so this was a simple, cheaper method to dress the window and was likewise in keeping with our ‘camping’ feel for the space,” states Sophie who uses the very same technique in her own house. The small tulip light is classic.
