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Tenby Golf Club It has been a privilege to be the Interior Designer for the Historic Tenby Golf Club’s renovation and new build. I started work with them in August 2022 and we are finally achieved our goals November 2023. It now has an airy comfortable space with new restaurant, coffee lounge, bar and club room with new entrance and pro golf shop. A whole new first floor was built to house ten new bedrooms with en suites that will be open to the public to stay as well as members. They have been designed with a clean fresh look in either ink Blue or Lagoon green, I have given the rooms a sense of place with the Welsh tapestry fabrics and local artist’s watercolour of Tenby. The public rooms on the ground floor reflect the soft landscape colours outside with the use of acoustic wood slatted walls and huge Welsh fabric lampshades.
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Pembrokeshire Cottage. I was asked to help pull together a dining room and a large sitting room without
incurring any major building works. This was a project where a few simple changes make a huge difference. In the Sitting Room they had inherited a large brick fireplace/chimneybreast with black pointing which completely overwhelmed the room. The solution (without demolishing it) was to paint it all one neutral colour to disappear against the walls. They had a lot of books in various bookcases so I suggested one large bookcase against the bare wall we had bespoke made in a green colour to work with the rest of the room design. The colour scheme was inspired by the rugs they wanted to keep, so soft greens for curtains and sofa and picking up the terracotta colour of rugs for the armchairs. They did not want a TV in the room, I thought the space near the large window where TV would have been could house a desk perfectly and was a big hit with customer. The room now has a warm, cosier feel with the introduction of the soft furnishings and more side lighting. The Dining Room has a wonderful original stone wall with an old black range. By introducing black iron curtain poles and framed mirror it ties the room in to the feature wall. The customers wanted to keep all their furniture in this room so I recommended the beautiful oak leaf fabric for the curtains and picking out the green colour to paint the recess wall to show off the gorgeous copper plate on the wall, all of which worked well with the furniture. The whole room was competed with new natural looking flooring.
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Scarborough House Tenby My clients purchased this very tired looking large apartment in one of Tenby’s seafront Victorian mansion blocks. It had great potential for a complete re-furbishment but the clients wanted to quickly bring it up to date for their holiday home and some letting for the first five years and after that do a bigger project. So the challenge was to work with existing layout, kitchen, wallcoverings and flooring. It suffered from very dark woodwork and anaglypta wallpaper. But it is amazing what a change of paint colour, new soft furnishings and lighting and new furniture can do! Very happy customers with total transformation. The photographs are before and after images of each room.
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Manorbier Property Pembrokeshire This client has a wonderful large property in Manorbier and i started off the project with the lower basement to be used as a guest apartment for family visits. The bathroom had already been finished and needed the lounge/diner, hallway and two bedrooms brought up to specification. Lots of natural materials used with earthy colours.
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Harbwr Bar & Kitchen This project I worked with Manager Ross to create a more contemporary atmosphere in the building. It has two floors, the ground one more bar orientated and the upstairs a plusher restaurant feel. Being so close to the sea it was natural to make a nod to a coastal design using deep blues and greens for colour scheme with a lot of natural wood in downstairs bar with metal lighting and fabulous cane lights in the stairwell and upstairs restaurant that had a lobster pot feel to them.
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Two cottages owned by Cadw (Welsh historic monuments) I have been working on two very interesting properties owned by Cadw in the Abergavenny area of Wales. Both these properties were attached to historic monuments and were deemed worthwhile restoring for holiday letting.
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Restaurant for Milford Haven Marina. Inspiration boards and designs for new restaurant/cafe inMilford Haven Marina – opening Summer 2017.
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Saundersfoot House. This is a Victorian five bedroomed holiday home for a family. I worked out a brief with the client and we agreed on a sophisticated and relaxed coastal theme that reflected both the property’s near-sea location and the family’s love of the coast.The eldest daughter, was very specific about her requirements – her room was to be fit for a pink princess! I created a theme that respected her wishes and had to accommodate a double and single bed for extra guests. The younger daughter was less specific about her room so I suggested a county woodland theme in soft colours which carried through to high quality detailing such as the woodland creatures curtain fabric with matching patchwork quilts for the bunk beds and painted furniture.I was able to use some beautiful coastal themed linen fabrics for the curtains and blinds throughout the house with complementary poles and some great headboards.The kitchen was just refreshed with new lighting, worktop and tiles and painting the dining furniture.
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Tenby Boutique B&B. Careful thought was given to achieving a chic look for guests looking for something a little out of the ordinary for a special break which has been particularly achieved for the new luxury eco garden cabin. In a world of corporate hotel rooms, creating something that is a ‘cut above’ the uniformity of the modern hotel design, both stands out in internet listings and creates an atmosphere in which guests are happy to while away time.This approach has been particularly successful in increasing low season occupancy rates when guests may want to spend only part of their days ‘out and about’ and has worked well in building customer loyalty for the guest house.A welcoming lounge also provides a welcome facility for guests wishing to avoid the corporate hotel style of break.
