How the designers turned this old hunting lodge into an inviting home

“There are two ways to decorate a country house,” says Bunny Turner, co -founder of the interior design studio Turner Pocock. 'One is that they back patterns and coloring and let the outside in, although this can feel quite bleak in the middle of winter. The other is to approach it in the spirit we did here and to have it all the time. And that's pretty wonderful, isn't it? '

This house design has inherently uplifting, a historic former hunting lodge in Berkshire, which goes back to the Georgian period. On every corner, colors and patterns joy: a lively coral stick deaf dances with spring flowers; A lobby is decorated with delicate clover leaves; A yellow sofa shines like a sunbeam in the living room. “We have selected patterns and materials that really sing in a land environment,” notes Bunny.

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In fact, customers are Bunny's sister and brother -in -law who moved from London with their four children in 2019. “In the first year they did not do anything in the house so that they could be included in the problems and consider how to get the rooms in the sun and where they hang as a family, for example,” says Bunny, who points out that the layout is already ideal. “Like many Georgian houses, the proportions were perfect for life in the family. It just needed love, life and spirit, inhaled it. '

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Bunny and co -founder of Turner Pocock, Emma Pocock, are “quite militant” when it comes to extracting a short time, and working with the family has had no exception. “We asked her to harvest visual information in order to distill the aesthetics that they wanted to achieve. This process is always quite revealing,” she says. “What came again and again in the pictures was this joyful use of color and pattern. It was brave and we found it very exciting. '

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The impressive extent of the rooms turned out to be an ally when it came to being bold with color. “We could be blockers with color,” says Bunny and points to the family room, in which walls in a rich leaf green -offset -furniture in red, pink, blues and softer green.

Some pieces were converted from the family of the family in London, but as Bunny puts it: “This house eats furniture, so that they were not really scratched on the surface.” The couple are enthusiastic art collectors, and the designers have helped them create a gallery wall in this room. “Smaller pieces risked to lose themselves individually, so we summarized them to achieve effects.”

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Decorating with antiques offers a significant counterpoint to the living colors. “Without some brown furniture, many of these rooms would not have felt enough or layered,” says Bunny, who led her sister with concept visuals so that she could get pieces over time.

A similar approach was followed with carpets, including worn kilims that were bought at an auction, or pieces that were recorded on a trip to Morocco. “I was pretty nervous about the idea that my sister was released in a souk to complete the rooms, but I don't have to be,” says Bunny. A certain flatwave that the couple chose with their children has the feeling that it was made for the living room.

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On the upper floor, the unshakable confident approach to color continues: “If you do not keep it consistent, the rooms can feel separate as if they were set up at different times,” says Bunny. In a children's bath, acid -yellow color takes out the tones in a wallpaper that buzzes with grasshoppers and birds, while earthy greens are wonderfully tempered in the main suite of earthy greens.

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The most exuberant space of all is the play room on the first floor, in which walls and a perfectly set up blanket are wrapped in strong blue and white stripes and woodwork can be selected in purple red. “We love a tent ceiling – always have it,” says Bunny. Under the built-in banquet facilities, tailor-made hubs are transformed into the ultimate overnight room.

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