Nick recently visited the gardens of Batcombe House for his latest Bath Life article, out today. Landscape designer Libby Russell has spent the last 17 years developing her Somerset garden of two distinct halves, filling it with year-round colour and cultivating a sense of calm and joy. If you’re in need of some garden inspiration, there’s an NGS open day on Saturday 19^th June, from 2 – 6pm, complete with cream tea refreshments. If you get the chance to go, it’s going to look amazing then! You can book ahead, here.

Image by Eva Nemeth

We’re delighted to have been shortlisted as finalists in the Homes & Interiors category in this year’s Bath Life Awards. When we looked back at the last 12 months, we realised just how much we’ve grown as a business – both personally and professionally – and are really proud of the way our team has navigated the pandemic to date. It’s a tough category, with some long-standing and much-loved local businesses on the shortlist, so keep your fingers crossed for us on 9^th September!

It’s got to be the wonderfully named and immediately captivating, The Lost Console, by Gareth Devonald Smith for Porta Romana.

Handmade here in Britain, it’s a beautifully sculptural piece in forged steel and shale with a black lacquered top, which effortlessly exudes the artist’s strong sense of style and is sure to create a talking point.

We recently welcomed Sophie Lamb as a full-time design assistant. Sophie is an interior architecture and design graduate from Falmouth Uni, who will be working across our current projects.

She brings our team up to 13!

We’ve chosen Julian House, a local charity supporting the homeless across Bath, Bristol and the South West as our charity of the year and the first initiative we’re getting involved with is their Big Bath Sleep Out: At Home.

Historically the event has been held in Alice Park, but with the current restrictions, participants are sleeping out at home and in their gardens to raise money and show their support for the men and woman who sleep out every night.

Nick, John and Taylor are taking part in the sleep out on Friday 5^th March, and if you want to join them with your own sleep out at home, you can find out more, here, or make a donation via our Just Giving page.

The snowdrop has long been the much-anticipated signal that, whilst spring is not quite upon us, it is undeniably on its way. Despite its reliable entrance each year, it’s difficult not to marvel at how something so delicate can make its way through such unfavourable conditions, and in such quantities.

The annual spectacle at Rococo Gardens at Painswick is no exception, If you’re local to Painswick , we’d highly recommend checking out their snowdrop display as a backdrop to your daily lockdown exercise over the coming days. To book your arrival time, click here.

Those of us a little further afield may have to wait a little longer until we can experience these wonderful gardens first hand. In the meantime, Nick’s latest garden design column in Bath Life gives an insight into the extraordinary history of the only remaining Rococo garden in the country.

We were thrilled to have a recent restoration of a 1730s country cottage featured in the February issue of 25 Beautiful Homes magazine.

A second home for our clients, whose main residence is a contemporary property in Surrey, they’d fallen in love with rural Somerset and were inspired by the laid-back style of one of their favourite places to visit nearby, Babington House.

They wanted that same country, cosy, welcoming feel with a sense of fun, asking to be pushed out of their usual neutral comfort zone, with plenty of bold colour and pattern incorporated in the schemes.

It was also important the cottage still felt personal to them, so we made sure to incorporate some of their existing pieces, such as a leather sofa and Chesterfield, into the space.

We loved working on this project, so if you fancy injecting some Soho House interiors style into your home, make sure you pick up a copy next time you’re on the supermarket run!

We’re delighted to be start 2021 on a high, having been appointed by property developers Kersfield, to work on their latest project at Sion Hill Place, across five luxury apartments.

Designed by world-renowned architect John Pinch the Elder, the Grade I property on a secluded Georgian terrace in Lansdown, is of notable historical interest.

As one of the city’s most sought after locations with property values to match, it was named by The Sunday Times as one of the UK’s ‘most wanted’ streets last year, as well as one of the city’s best-kept secrets!

We’ll keep you updated on our progress on our Instagram and Twitter feeds!

Our work on a recent project, turning an unloved Georgian townhouse in Bath into a weekend holiday home is featured in the January issue of 25 Beautiful Homes, which is in the shops now!

We designed interiors and exteriors, for that sense of flow, and in keeping with the feel of the house, used a warm neutral palette, with splashes of colour on top to help create the calm vibe our clients were after.

So, if you’re in need some New Year home inspiration, you know where to look…

We decided against sending Christmas cards this year, instead giving the money we would have spent on cards and postage to our local homeless charity Julian House’s Christmas Appeal.

The charity sector has been hit especially hard, and the need for Julian House’s life-changing services to support the city’s vulnerable has dramatically increased when their income streams have been dramatically reduced.

For more on this year’s appeal, and how donations can help rebuild a life this Christmas, head to: https://www.julianhouse.org.uk/christmasappeal/