Garden flat, Peckham · 2025

Pell Bedroom

A dark room made deliberately darker, and lit so it works at 7am and at 11pm.

Spruce 12 · Oyster · Aged brass

Bedroom with deep blue-green panelled walls, low opal globe pendants either side of the bed

Rooms: Main bedroom and dressing wall
What we did: Full room design
How long: 14 weeks, first visit to handover
Our fee: Design fee £5,400

The room faces a brick wall four metres away and never gets direct sun. Fighting that with white paint had left it looking grey and cold, which is how the owners had lived in it for three years.

We went the other way: a deep blue-green over walls, cornice and the back of the door, wardrobes built flush into the chimney breast, a dressing corner at the window, and two opal globes hung low either side of the bed so the light is at reading height rather than overhead.

What the client was handed

Layout and joinery drawings the cabinetmaker priced from
Lighting plan with switching, on three circuits
Paint schedule — colour, finish and coat count per surface
Furniture and textile schedule with prices and lead times

Corner of the bedroom with an upholstered chair, a small writing table and a folded robe — The dressing corner, by the only window that gets any morning light.

Guest room with a textured plaster wall, timber ceiling and layered bedding — The guest room next door, done at the same time in the same palette, warmer end first.

Next project

Marlowe Drawing Room

Panelling, a cold north light, and one colour that had to hold up under lamps as well as daylight.

See Marlowe Drawing Room Book a consultation

Drawing room with grey-green panelled wall, blue velvet sofa and a black wood-burning stove