Interior Design Sitting Room Pictures
Interior artisan Octavia Dickinson's south London collapsed illustrates the avant-garde access she brings to country-house style, accumulation aged furniture, floral prints and avant-garde pieces
["552.9"]Octavia Dickinson has accomplished a actual able trick: she has conjured up a country abode in the average of London. The two-bedroom collapsed area she lives with her fiancé Harry is a cake of floral prints, pale-pink walls and doughy sofas; there are jugs overflowing with flowers and the walls are afraid with pictures and plates. But associate through the sitting allowance window and you will not acquisition amaranthine fields with gambolling lambs. Instead you are added acceptable to atom a brace of anxiety boot forth the pavement aloft or car tyres rolling past. This is a basement collapsed in Battersea, not a cottage in the Cotswolds.
["485"]As the abounding paintings and prints on the walls attest, Octavia comes from an art background. Her ancestor is the acclaimed fine-art banker Simon Dickinson and her sister Phoebe is an artist. She interned at Marlborough Gallery in New York, and Sotheby's and Phillips in London, afore alive at Dickinson Roundell in London and New York and as an art researcher for the BBC. But accepting developed up on a diet of interiors magazines, aback she heard about a job with autogenous decorator Cindy Leveson, she absitively it was time for a career change. She went on to assignment with Flora Soames for a year afore ambience up her apprentice interior-design convenance at the end of 2016.
Octavia bought her collapsed in 2014. 'It wasn't in abhorrent condition, but it was rundown,' she says. 'I bashed bottomward the bank adding the aisle and the sitting room, and added a tiny bath to the aback bedroom.' Spread beyond one floor, with a attenuated allotment of garden, it is a bunched space, but admitting the anti-minimal aesthetic, it does not feel chock-full.
["744.96"]The advanced aperture opens into the sitting room, area Octavia has layered colour and arrangement with the lightest of touches. The walls are corrective in 'Setting Plaster' by Farrow & Ball. Itis a aerial adumbration of blush after actuality bathetic and is confused up a accessory by the amethyst bookshelves. There are G P & J Baker bolt curtains, an ottoman advised by Octavia and a mix of affiliated appliance and aged finds. 'I capital to actualize about I would never appetite to leave,' she says.
Octavia and Harry's bedchamber is an awfully adequate amplitude corrective a appealing adumbration of blue. 'I fell in adulation with the Claremont fabric, which I eventually adored up for and had fabricated into curtains,' she says. Another prerequisite was a aerial bed - the array you accept to ascend into - which she accomplished with a blind akin with a red border. It is a baby blow that neatly accentuates the floral arrangement of the curtains and illustrates Octavia's absorption to detail.
["485"]Next aperture is the bath - a maximalist anchorage decked out in a all-embracing floral wallpaper. 'I anticipate bathrooms should be comfortable and exciting,' she says. 'I laid a carpeting in mine, which is apparently ridiculous, but I capital it to be a allowance that I loved.'
A set of plates adorn the walls and forms allotment of Octavia's ever-growing accumulating of ceramics, which continues in the kitchen. 'I've learnt that if you see article you adulation and can aloof about allow it, buy it. You'll consistently affliction it if you don't,' she insists. This affect ability explain why she commissioned Alfred Newall of The London Workshop to accomplish a set of accessible shelves for her kitchen - every additional inch of which is bouncing with teapots, jugs, bowls and yet added plates.
["776"]Octavia's collapsed has abounding of the tropes of an English country house. There are abounding antiques, beefy cushions, oriental rugs, billowing table lamps and beginning flowers, but these capacity all appear with a audibly avant-garde aberration and that is because there are affluence of pieces by adolescent makers and artists. There are the Matilda Goad lampshades in the kitchen, a Francesca Gentilli agent in the hall, Alfred's shelving with ball uprights and artwork by her sister Phoebe. As Octavia develops her autogenous architecture style, it is auspicious to see the acceptable hallmarks of country-house appearance actuality reinterpreted by a new bearing of designers, artisans and craftsmen.
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