Dartmouth Park House

We were approached by a young couple who bought a lovely Victorian house in the heart of Dartmouth Park in North London. The house had the great proportions that later Victorian London houses tend to have, but it suffered from one of those late-1990s renovations that really dampened the feeling of the building.

The clients encouraged us to use colour and pattern and asked us to maintain an element of traditional without making the house feel like an old-fashioned cottage. I immediately thought of wallpaper and proper 4-poster beds, but pulled the house back into the 21st century by mixing in plenty of more contemporary furnishings, colours and patterns. I hope the result is a house that feels vibrant and unexpected, while at the same time strongly connected to its Victorian roots.