ENGLISH HOUSE TOUR A Layered London Home of Prints Texture Color

Today we're in London stepping inside the home of fashion designer Wiggy Hindmarch. Set right on the Thames River, this vibrant, character-filled home is a joyful celebration of print, texture, and British charm. From a coastal treasure box dining room to a countryside inspired guest bathroom, every space feels playful, layered, and deeply personal. Originally owned and designed by renowned textile designer Kath Kidson, the home carries a rich creative legacy, one that Wiggy has made entirely her own. So come with us as we explore this extraordinary West London home where fashion, textiles, and storytelling meet. To watch Wiggy's home tour ad-free where she gives us a masterclass on how to decorate chic children's bedrooms, scan the QR code on screen, or visit homeworthyplus.com for access to all of our latest episodes ad-free and to receive other exclusive membership perks. Hi Homeworthy, I'm Wiggy Hindmarch. Welcome to my home in London. Come in and take a look. You're watching Homeworthy, where we believe every home has a story. I'm Alison Kenworthy, the founder of Homeworthy, and we take you inside the world's most beautifully decorated homes and introduce you to the brilliant people who live there. Hi Homeworthy, I'm Liz Lang. Welcome to Grey Gardens. Click the join button below to access all of our latest episodes ad-free and watch extended cuts of this and other homes, opening the doors to new rooms and exclusive content featuring our beloved hosts. I can't wait to see them. I'm so excited. And if you're looking to shop items inspired by this and other homeworthy tastemakers, be sure to use the product links below or scan the QR code on screen to find fabulous furniture, coffee table books and accessories that can transform your house into a home. Hi, I'm Wiggy Hindmarch. I'm a fashion designer and welcome to my home in London, England. Previously, we were living in the area of London, which was very kind of family centric. We had two children in Chelsea and we had a beautiful, lovely little terraced house there in the heart of Chelsea, but we soon outgrew it and we really needed more space. Hence the fact we moved to this kind of quite a family area of Parsons Green. I knew that wasn't quite what we were all about as a family. And as soon as the children were old enough, I knew we were going to move to a different area. During the time that we actually lived there, I would take long walks along the River Thames. We're very lucky to be quite situated, quite close to the Thames. And during these walks, I would come across this beautiful little enclave of London that I wasn't actually very familiar with. And as you walk along the Thames, they had these pretty little river gardens and beautiful and sort of very antiquated, gorgeous houses. It felt like you're almost in the countryside of London. It's an area I had never seen before or knew existed. And I said once or twice to my husband, this is where we're going to end up. This is where we're going to live. And much to his chagrin, he said there's no way that he was moving even further out of London. But I reassured him that actually, if he had a chance to go see this beautiful area of London, he would, I'm sure, agree with me. We'd recently spent some time away in the Bahamas, where our children had gone to school and were coming back to the UK. And I knew at that stage that I had a bit of a different feeling and idea of how I wanted to live in London. And for me, Parsons Green really wasn't it. He said to me, unequivocally, please, when we go back to England, don't go looking for houses. I think he knew that I was on the search to move us out of that area. Within a week of returning, I'd already booked a house tour to come and see this house. He came along, but very begrudgingly. We took a very long and luxurious tour of this wonderful house. And he didn't say a word to me whilst we were going room to room. We, in fact, left in silence, sat in the car in front of this house and paused. I didn't turn on the engine of the car. We just sat there. And within about 30 seconds, he just simply turns to me and says, we're going to have to have this house, aren't we? And we spent the next few months trying to purchase this house. And fortunately, we were up against lots of people for the house, and we were lucky enough to finally win it. It really literally felt like winning the jackpot. So I think this is a really important vignette. When you come in to the house for the first time, what you're really doing is you're seeing this really wonderful symmetrical sort of scene. And I really like how this very grand, beautiful sideboard really anchors the space. The beautiful sort of almost bird's eye marble on top gives it a real grandiosity. And I like all the flaky paint as well. This came from Robert Kime. I put two Paolo Moschino lamps here. And I think with the colour of this room, which is this kind of interesting ochre colour, the white bases of this kind of modernist Roman style urn lamp base really sort of pops out. I started collecting actually lots of porcelain, which I have piles all over the place. The idea is we are going to do a blue and white mixed antique wall of plates here, which I think will frame the space really nicely. Because it's a long, narrow room, to be able to bounce light coming from either end of the room is really important. So we have these two matching pairs of antiques mirrored glass here, which really does create a lot more space in the room. This bay window, I think is such again, another beautiful vignette that frames our garden and the river garden really nicely. I've upholstered actually these these lovely old ex-bench little seats. The idea is you could sit here if you wanted to, when it's not covered obviously in coffee table books and porcelain, and you can sit and maybe work and look out the window. Another really favourite part of my house is this little tiny bureau. I found this locally in a beautiful antiques shop that I drop into every now and again, and I always go there with the intention of buying nothing. I always come up with something. This was something I couldn't stop thinking about. I knew I had to get it, and it's funny to find such a little diminutive bureau, but what I liked about it was the patina of the wood. I like to see the marks and how it's been lived with, and it has a great little secret compartment here. I use this as a bit of a almost like a space where I can collect and put more of my little miniature collections, and if you see closely in here, I've collected lots of antique lead toys. That really brings me a lot of joy, but this is where I sit. I write thank you letters, which I'm a big fan of. I think thank you letters are an aging, old, dying art, and I think it's really important. So I keep all my stationery in there, and I make it my point to write thank you letters every time I've been lucky enough to be invited somewhere. And down there is also the present drawer, so don't go looking in there because your present might be in there. I like some curiosity, so things with a bit of humor. I really liked him. I found him in this fantastic shop called Ridge and Ridge, and in there he has a nice combination between newly upholstered pieces and funny quirky bits like this. Again, when I looked for a side table here, it's having the patina and all the old marks where people have put their glasses down and drinks over the years. I really think that that is a lovely addition to the room. The fabrics that we have in this room, a nice combination of usually American interior designers. So we have Lisa Fine textiles in here, we have Peter Dunham textiles, and I think they all work together. They have a kind of slightly either a tribally look or an antiqued, almost chinoiserie kind of a look, and I think those really work nicely together. This was actually a custom-made sofa, and so we're able to be quite specific about how the filling was, how it all sort of felt when you're sitting on it, how we like to sit. So that was a really important piece that the whole room began with. So this sofa in itself was the starting point to the whole design of the space. Above here we have a Sidney Albertini painting. Now it is kind of strange when you look at it because you think, why on earth have they hung that knot directly over the sofa? The reason being is it's actually quite a strangely shaped room, and I wanted to make sure that the sofa was directly opposite the fireplace. That is the center of the room. Unfortunately, the way the paneling works, it doesn't allow for that because we have a run of paneling along here that doesn't make it symmetrical. We tried actually hanging over the other way, it didn't work. So actually, this doesn't seem to work on paper, but I think it does in reality, and something so vibrant like this is a really nice juxtaposition to all the traditional features of this room, and what I particularly like is it's been painted on craft paper, so it's very, very naive. These two bits of three-dimensional art we actually inherited from the previous owners. They were kind enough to leave them behind, and as you can see, it works really nicely with this big piece. A reading light like this, I think, adds a bit more texture to the wall. We have this tortoise shell. We have a tortoise shell lampshade here, which really complements all the other pieces in the room. It adds almost like a bit of animal print, which I think is kind of a neutral. This center table here, this is called the Cock Pen Table. It is by Sybil Colfax and Fowler. It was an amazing design because if you cinch down, you actually look at the base of it. It's got a really interesting cage-like structure, and I like how glossy it is. Again, it anchors all these other colors here in the room. We have martini tables. Now, these are very useful tables to have because you can literally, if you have a long sofa like this and nowhere to put your cocktail in the evening, you literally can stick it here, and it's an unobtrusive way to keep your cocktail close by without having to reach forward, and I think that's actually the ultimate in decadence. Over here, we have two tiny little chairs. Now, not very useful if you're sitting in there day to day, but for me, I wanted two little chairs that if we're having a dinner party, having friends over, they can sit here quite comfortably with a cocktail, and we can move them around the room any time that we need to, and an inlaid antique small table to the side, which meant that you can also put your little cocktail there as well. Behind here, we hide all the things that we utilize for our fireplace, so it's in a nice old antique trough. This was a piece that I absolutely fell in love with. I discovered it on Lawfords, which is a bit of a weakness for me. I love antiques, and it's the first thing that I do if I want to relax. I scan antiques websites. This originally came as one large housekeeper's cupboard. The top part had beautiful doors that were glazed, and inside was a sort of duck egg blue that was all flaky paint. It was absolutely ideal, and I fell in love with it. The problem was when we put it in place, it felt too domineering in the room, and it also meant that we could not have this really important mirror that does bounce a lot of light off of the room, so that was lifted off. It's now kept in a warehouse, but we were left with the issue of it had no top, so we had a custom-made top made in the same vein, in the same keeping as the antique part. It's very hard to match it precisely, but you can literally get up this close and not be disturbed by this new top that we had made. Above the mantelpiece, I have this piece of artwork that may or may not stay here, but it's certainly staying here for the moment. It involves a lot of people who have very mixed feelings about this, mainly because it could possibly be coming from a children's Sunday school. Potentially, I'm not trying to insult the artist, but I really love it. I love the depth of this piece. You can look at it from any different angle, and you'll find something new lurking underneath there, and I love anything in a Perspex box. I really think that that creates something rather fun, and I don't think you would ever expect to find a piece like this in such a traditionally panelled room. The previous owners, Cath Kidston, had a fantastic original frame from a Walt Disney Mickey Mouse movie above here, and I loved how unusual that was, to have something that you weren't expecting to be there. So that was a really nice touch. I collect things on my travels. This was my latest thing that I brought back. I've just been traveling through Southeast Asia and was introduced very much to Buddhist faith there. There's some really wonderful teachings in it, and so for me, bringing a Buddha back to the UK was a nice reminder and a nice memory of a wonderful family trip. When we were touring around the house for the very first time, what really struck me when we first walked in here was how joyful it was. It was filled with colour and interesting artwork, really mixing the traditional with some contemporary. In fact, the previous owner of this house was a very well-known interior designer called Cath Kidston, and she is absolutely expert with colour and really juxtaposing interesting things next to one another, and we fell in love with it the moment we walked in. In fact, so much so, we lived with her interiors for approximately six or seven years until we decided to embark on a refurb, and we were really toying with trying to keep it, particularly this room, as it was, which was a neon, almost coral colour, which is not usually a colour that you would immediately think of painting a drawing room, but it really was wonderful. The way that it would reflect light on your face, it just put you in a good mood when you're in here, so it really was hard for me to change that aesthetic, but when the time came, I realised if you're going to all this expense to really refurbish a place, it needs to sort of feel like it has your own stamp on it, as much as I loved what Cath had already done to the house. But the bones of this house were so good that we didn't really have to do too much, we just wanted to keep it feeling like a country house in London. For me, having lived in America, I really wanted to bring into this space a feeling of America, but with an English person's point of view, and so again, colour, texture, clashing of prints, that was very important, and I do think that I have incorporated with the house a kind of American way of approaching design, which is, in my opinion, focusing on three to four main colours per room, and really layering on those different prints, tones of that colour, and really playing with a very certain directional look. And as you move from room to room in my house, you will see that three to four colour rule embraced. So, we're here in our dining space, which we actually like to call the morning room, and this was probably the biggest transformation of all the rooms that we attempted in the house. As you can see, there's trellising all around, floor to ceiling, it was a labour of love, really. I am familiar with this kind of wall treatment just from living in America, but in the UK, this is not really something that is that typical. So, I had to work with some carpenters, some joiners to create this space, and what made it even more complicated? It's not perfectly square. When you're dealing with millions and millions of little squares, you can imagine the mathematical concept behind doing all these panels. But for me, what I wanted to do is bring the outside in and make this feel like a home that had a big connection with the garden and the exterior space. The way that the house works is you have double aperture front and back, it's actually quite a narrow space, so you do have a lot of access to outdoor visibility at all times. We had to integrate a bar. I'm not really a bar person unless you create something like this, and for me, it was bringing a traditional aspect that was a way to be hospitable. This is a lovely place to come and stand. When you're bringing guests into the house, you can stand here, get them a drink, you have the fire going. It's a really convivial space to actually entertain. This was a really nice little vignette, I thought. This top of this bar, we wanted to create a brass bar, but actually, this is a very clever paint. It mimics actually brass. It even has the patina, so you have your fingerprints on it, which makes it very, very genuine feel to it. Beneath here, of course, we have the fridge and all the accoutrements to make delicious cocktails. This was a wonderful little space that was all about entertaining and guests. Our gas fire was expertly designed for us to have the feel of a real fire. There's ash, there's all sorts of things that makes that feel like it's a true fire, and we can switch it off when we want to go to bed and feel very, very safe and secure. The main focus of this room really is the cox chandelier. What's so clever about it, it is very, very realistic up close. You can choose how you patina the leaves to be exactly how you want it. For me, I want it quite naturalistic and that you could see a little bit of the changing of the leaves. That's a very special piece in this room, and it really does anchor the space. Beneath the chandelier, we have a beautiful antique pedestal table, but I have covered this with a glass top and plenty of different layering of tablecloths underneath. The reason I've done this is so that we could really use this almost as a hall area. If we ever want to turn this into more of a dining area, we can remove the tablecloths and this becomes a very convivial dining space. For the majority of the time, we use this space for entertaining and as an extension to the entry when you walk in the door. Of course, you can then look through into the garden and have the doors open in the summer, which is a lovely touch. Above the mantelpiece, we have this beautiful piece, which is a lovely convex mirror from JAM. JAM is a bit of a weakness of mine. J-A-M-B is a beautiful shop, and they have wonderful lighting, which we can see also here on the wall sconces here at the back. I love the gilding on here, and the fact it's actually all antiques. This is a new piece, but very much looks like an antique find. On the top here, my lacquer collection, which I'm slowly collecting over the years. I love these pieces. The chinoiserie aspect of this room really lifts the space. Framed on the walls, we have these beautiful antique playing cards, and they're on each four corners of the room and really give a certain decoration without shouting too loud, which I think is really nice. Not spoiling this wonderful jewel box of a room. Custom-made thick curtains are a bit of a thing that we have in the UK. I actually don't have many curtains in the house. I think these could almost be the only pair apart from up in my daughter's room. I really wanted to make sure they were incredibly special indeed. The fabric is namae same, which is some of these fabrics in here are also namae same on the chairs and the cushions here. It's all hand embroidered and really quite stunning and beautiful. This peplum top also is an unusual design. I liked the fact that it feels like you've taken an antique piece of fabric, flopped it over and just hung it up there. That has a wonderful casualness that I love. Inside, we've also taken reference from the tablecloth here and used an Ian Mankin ticking, which is a classic for all time. That frames that wonderful window really nicely. These chairs were an antique find that I found through another wonderful design company called Soane here in the UK. They're known for their wicker and their rattan. These were in fact actual antiques that they had found themselves. I thought this was a lovely accent to the room. Originally, I thought I was going to change the color from maybe blue to green or even a pop of red. Actually, I did like the offsetting of all the green and the cream that you have here with a little bit of color. We have an old tea canister here that was transformed into this wonderful lamp. It's sitting on an antique bamboo, little conservatory style table. Here we have another one of my finds from Lawfords. What I wanted this room to behave as was it could be a morning room, it could be a place you come for breakfast, or you could have drinks in here with friends. What is concealed behind here is great storage. I was even thinking of keeping the doors open because inside, I will show you here, is a treasure trove of crystal plates and silverware, which is a really nice aspect to the room. Especially if you had the doors open, it would actually be a lovely thing to even look at. That is hidden behind these wonderful doors. Beneath here, of course, this is where you keep all your linens and other tableware. Rooms that are multifunctional here in London is actually a must. If you live in any city where space is at a premium, it's really important that your rooms can do double duty. This was a little area we thought could be used for computers where you're sitting. If you remove the computer, you can also use it as a serving area. If we were to do a buffet lunch, for example, we can use this space as a serving station here. In the meantime, we have an antique model of a ship, which I'm very keen on anything nautical, and then a few collectibles here on the top. A really fun and traditional thing that we have in England quite often is jib doors. These are doors that are concealed within the walls, so you don't immediately notice them and they don't spoil a room, but it's a feeling of a secret passage almost. This door leads me directly in to the drawing room. Welcome to my powder room. This was a room that used to be the laundry room here on the ground floor, but it wasn't really suitable to have as a laundry room. We moved that downstairs, so we have much more of a traditional laundry room in the basement. Here is just off the entryway and just off the kitchen. It is supposed to resemble something you would find in a country house and to have plenty of things on the wall. I'm still curating the walls as we speak. We have lots of wonderful pieces and curiosities on the wall. I wanted this to feel decorated and not a sterile place, which most bathrooms are. This has to have rugs on the floor. It has to have accoutrements all around. One of the things I really like about this custom-made vanity that we've done here with a really beautiful old piece of marble that I found that really complemented the base really nicely. The taps are by a very traditional company called Drummond's. We went for the unlacquered brass purely because it has a great patina as it gets older and older. We do not polish those at all. No better than this wonderful framed ties of my father. My father unfortunately died about a year and a half ago. This was a gift from my brother of all the ties, his favorite ties that he wore and were even worn at his funeral. This is actually a really special part of the bathroom. Come with me downstairs to our basement. We've transformed this into a bit of a family room, somewhere we can all go to to relax. Big deep sofas, massive TV. This is where we go to relax. I came to fashion actually in a bit of a convoluted way. It wasn't my intention to actually start my career in fashion. Quite like a lot of other people when they start out on their careers in life, they take their first jobs and for me that just happened to be working in retail. I was living and working in America at the time and when I first moved over there, I had no intention of going to university. So I actually started to work locally and learnt my whole retail experience immediately when I was 18. One job led to another and before I knew it I was actually starting to manage retail stores and each job gave me more and more responsibility and I really started to think that actually I was kind of good at this and by the time I moved back to the UK, I was starting to run a few people's businesses. I was working in cashmere, I was working in jewellery and I really got to understand the workings of how to run your own business. When the time came, my children were the youngest was four years old and it was the right time for me to start my own business and for me it was very obvious that I was going to go into fashion. I really enjoyed fashion, I really enjoyed women's clothing and I felt I really got an understanding of what women like and want. So I started Wiggy Kit in 2015 and it really started off as a very concise little collection. The whole aim of what I was trying to do was produce a collection of really hard-working separates and dresses that will take you anywhere. It starts off really because I discovered in my own wardrobe as I was clearing it out that I had two summer wardrobes. One for when you're really hot and you're on the beach and you're in a bikini and then for London when it's nice and hot, which is obviously a rare thing, I realised I didn't have anything to wear in a city or an urban kind of environment in the summer and it got me thinking how ridiculous that was that one should have two different wardrobes for the summer and so Wiggy Kit was born. I really wanted to develop pieces that can wear every day in and around London. You can dress up, you can dress down or literally you could throw over a bikini and or go to the market wherever you are on vacation. So that was the whole idea behind it and what started off as just a spring summer collection slowly morphed into having also winter pieces as well. A lot of my clients were saying to me, now Wiggy, what do you wear in the winter? Because I'm absolutely stuck, I wear all your pieces during the summer and then I don't know what to wear in the winter and that's why I started designing winter pieces as well. So now I've been in business for about 10 years, it's growing beautifully. I have so many wonderful clients on all sides of the world, a lot in America which really speaks to me because I used to live and work there for about six or seven years and I absolutely loved it and it really does influence how I design today. Basements are notoriously difficult to inhabit because they're inherently quite dark and quite depressing so it really lends itself to having this kind of cozy atmosphere and we've gone above and beyond with the joinery in here with super glossy deep dark blue that really keeps the the feeling of a snug beautiful area. We have wallpaper by Paolo Moschino, again it's that very naturalistic print that is not too perfect which I like. We have this original Hugo Guinness painting that I had to actually send over from New York and we have that framed here in the UK but this is a really again lovely naive naturalistic piece that I really enjoy in artwork. We custom made this L-shaped sofa so for maximum comfort. We all fight of course over this end of the sofa and so that is kind of the lover's chair so dependent on which of my children currently have a boyfriend that is where they sit, the rest of us have to sit down here. In the centre we have a custom-made ottoman that keeps all sorts of things we want to keep hidden away and that's actually a very useful extra bit of storage. All throughout this room we have storage, this is where I keep all my Christmas wrapping papers and things of that nature. I'm a big hoarder of coffee table books, interior books and so they all have to find a space in the house. This seems a better place than any in the house. Space is at a premium in London and so we had to build in storage everywhere we looked. We have a ginormous TV here and plenty of subwoofers so when you're here down here with a family you really are in a cinematic kind of setup. I found this wonderful antique tiger that's been painted actually on cloth. It even has some repairs that were done down here and this seemed like the perfect place to put it and picking up on the frame that pop of red which is scattered about the room. Now this is my favourite room in the house. It's kind of a fantasy room. It's a little jewel box. We call this the cabin room and I'll show you why. It really is a teeny tiny space but within this space everything is catered for. So we have a cabin bed that was specially built in here. Again a lot of inspiration came from New England little cabin beds that I had found and so it feels like you're sort of on a ship. Here in the window which is an absolute delight is this teeny tiny bath. This is by Albion Baths and they make the smallest little baths. They make them I believe in 120, 140 and 160 lengths so if you have a teeny tiny space this is the company that you need to go to and it gives you a nice deep bath and in fact one of my daughters, this is her favourite thing to do, sit in here at the end of the day and have a luxurious bath. All the fittings are by Drummond's again in that lovely antique bra so it gives this lovely cream space that warmth of an antique finish here. This room actually interestingly started its life as a family bathroom and in fact the bath was situated here with a sink here and then the loo was actually in this corner and behind here which is now where the loo and the sink is housed used to be in fact a steam shower. So we've really utilised the space incredibly well and so as to not make the space feel too claustrophobic or inhibitive in any way what we have done is we put some glazed doors so you can look through into this lovely little jewel box of a bathroom. On another one of my trips to my local antique shop that I swore I wasn't going to buy anything in I managed to come back with this wonderful bamboo display hanging case and this wicker Chester drawers. It really was an amazing find. I felt lucky to have found them because return is actually incredibly hard to come by without them being snapped up too quickly. This was an obvious place to put a few shell displays. We have our house in the Bahamas and so I wanted to bring in that slightly washed up on a desert island feel in a weird way to this space. As I said it does feel a bit like a ship's cabin and this is a really nice nightstand as well that also has some really good storage. This built-in cabin bed is a kind of a delight because you can really snuggle in there in the winter and we've got some cute little books you can sit and read on a cold winter's night. And then we have this lovely thick cosy ticking curtain which makes you feel nice and snug when you're tucked up in this bed. And underneath the bed we've integrated some great storage as well. As a fashion designer of course the dressing room is really important to house all my designs. Sadly they don't all fit in here hence the fact it's rather exploded. But this actually used to be an office. The previous owners had this as an office. It was actually a studio as he was a music producer. It was kind of an awkward shaped room and so fitting this out with wardrobes was actually a pretty difficult space. It is a wedge shaped room so you can imagine with joinery there's a lot going on behind these wardrobes that really hide the shape of this room. But having a view like this over the river to be able to do your hair and your makeup has been a godsend. Having had to do it before in my bedroom it really created a lot of hassle between my husband and I. He's now really pleased I've got my own space. Here we have also lots of drawers for things like underwear and small items and then the rest of these wardrobes are basically all mine. Each portions of the wardrobes houses its very own types of garments. So this for example obviously is my dress wardrobe. Like most girls I'm a shoeaholic and so this is only one of the very many closets I have to house all my shoes and girls can never have enough shoes no matter what anyone tells you. We are in the master bedroom and this really is I guess the main bedroom and the main room of the house. It has wonderful views both over the river and to our garden and so we're really lucky in the morning we get to lie in bed have a cup of tea and watch the rowers go past as they are doing right this moment. We had this bed custom made for us and it was to give a sense of importance to this room. We're very lucky we do have high ceilings and so I wanted to make sure that it really filled the scale of the room and it was all about a way to showcase this wonderful fabric by Lisa Fine. It was a fabric that I've been lusting after for many many years and it really just creates a lovely bohemian feel to the room. On the walls we have a seagrass which is nice and natural and again has texture has personality and is a great foil to any fabric. I'm a big fan actually of a shop in Palm Beach called Get the Gusto and if you are not familiar with it I thoroughly recommend you see it because it has so many wonderful things. This is a papier mache fig leaf or fiddle leaf I believe. Painted wooden floors are also a really nice way for furniture to also pop. This is an amazing antique that I found. It's a Biedermeier style chest of drawers that really again I fell in love with the cracks and I fell in love with the patina it really sung to me when I saw that. Above the commode I found this incredible bone and mother of pearl inlay antique mirror from Robert Keim again. Again it was a piece that I fell in love immediately knew that would tie in a lot of these wonderful pinks and browns and natural tones and so this is actually a very important part of the room and I think it really wouldn't be the room that it is without this this wonderful vignette anchored by two lamps from Bess Lincoln Jones which gives again that symmetry that I always love and crave. At the end of the bed we have a William Yeowood settle bench with that rush seating here which makes it that much more casual it knocks back the grandeur of this room a little bit and gives a bit of a Scandinavian or French country feel to it. Anchoring this space we have this beautiful glossy dark wood antique this really is my husband's wardrobe inside we keep all of his shirts and belts and things of that nature. As we walk into the master bathroom you will see it's a cacophony of colour print and some pretty loud marble probably a bit marmite to some people but I think it has a great effect we're still actually waiting for the perfect piece of artwork to go here above the mantelpiece it's actually quite hard as you can imagine finding an appropriate piece of artwork that will fill the space nicely. All the sanitary wear is from Drummond's which again is that very traditional bathroom outfitters and I really felt like this should be a space that has the mod cons of a really luxurious grand walk-in shower as well as a traditional bathtub and when you're sitting here in the bathtub you have the perfect view over the garden and the changing seasons ahead of you. I'm actually not much of a shower person however this has definitely converted me I would never take showers in fact I even went so far as to wash my hair over the tub but this shower has completely changed my idea about that. I spent months if not years looking for the perfect antique commodes to actually turn into vanities. I really gave up after about a year it was very hard to find exactly the right proportions with a matching pair that we could utilize in a his and her sinks so I then turned to a craftsman here in the UK to create these amazing commodes we literally went over every finish every type of polish the way that the wood has its grain it was a very in-depth process but one that I'm really pleased about because we've ended up with what hopefully will be a future antique. I found actually in any house that I have decorated that drawers instead of just a cabinet underneath your vanities is what makes it so usable it means that you don't have to really dig behind you can literally pull out your drawers and you find exactly what you need there and then and the depth of that is obviously very important so we spent a lot of time making sure that it fit all the lotions and potions extremely well and actually it houses tons and tons of products. Central to this room is this birdcage lantern from Soane and they have also the matching wool lanterns as well again it's bringing a sense of the outdoors it's bringing an orangery feel to it and furnishing a bathroom so it's not clinical that literally you can perch here and enjoy a glass of wine while someone else is in the bath and have a good chat. So for us as a family this home has been a real source of pride. I think whenever we have friends that come and visit us here they're blown away by the position that we have here it really is a unique house and it's not something you can replicate probably ever again so for me the uniqueness of this house its position on the River Thames its beautiful aspects back and forth really is just almost an unbeatable kind of situation but now that we have refurbished the house we've redecorated we've really made it our own space the thought of anyone having this house apart from us kills me so I don't think we will ever let this house go unless I'm forced to it really has become such a source of joy for our family and we relax here it feels it feels properly like home and how lucky we are to have a space like this with the space we have and the exterior space that we have and yet still be in striking distance of all the best places in London. 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