Honouring the Heritage Home

Our client, with her interior designer Joanna Bamford, has been carefully and comprehensively renovating this beautiful, Welsh Marches (Y Mers) farmhouse, going to such painstaking lengths as quarrying their own stone for walls, flags, and roof tiles. The oldest part of the house dates back to at least the fifteen hundreds, with evidence of extensions and alterations over the course of the intervening centuries.

The house today has many of the comforts and conveniences that we associate with the 2020s, though the bulk of the construction would be immediately familiar to any one of the builders who have worked on it through the ages, and is expected to endure for centuries to come.

We were fortunate to be asked to provide fitted furniture for the living room; shelves and alcove cupboards, and window shutters, that sit comfortably with this ethos; practical, robust, hand-crafted, timeless: sympathetic to place and its vernacular.  

 

We used oak for the furniture, as this had clearly been the preferred timber in the rest of the farmhouse. English oak, certified Grown in Britain, sourced from our favourite sawmill, just ten miles away as the crow files. Encouraging the renaissance of the home grown timber that has always graced these traditional, border homesteads.

Interior Designer: Joanna Bamford

Photo: @amandajaxninteriorphoto