Full Interior Design · Watford

Cassiobury Family Home, Watford

A family home, reshaped around the way they live.

The brief

The family loved their home. It had simply stopped working the way they live. The house was ready for a refurbishment, and the hallway, unusually generous for a house of this size, was space doing nothing at all. Older relatives come to stay for a couple of months each year with nowhere on the ground floor to put them, and upstairs the family bathroom had always felt tight.

The design

We explored a couple of layouts with the family before settling on the one that felt right. Moving the kitchen to the back of the house was the move that set everything else free. Part of the old kitchen, a slice of that oversized hallway and the original WC came together as a guest bedroom and a ground floor shower room, both opening off the hall, so visiting relatives now have a room of their own.

What was left of the old kitchen and the former living room became a kitchen diner running the full width of the back of the house, open to a large, welcoming lounge. The heart of the home moved, and the house feels twice as generous for it.

Upstairs asked for less. Drawing a hall cupboard into the family bathroom found the room for both a bath and a separate shower, where the space had once felt tight. The other rooms already worked well for the family, so their layouts stayed much as they were, apart from reworking the storage. From there it was all in the finishing layers: new flooring, coving and skirting, fresh surface finishes, window treatments, and furniture that mixes new pieces with their own, upcycled to belong in the new scheme.

Original ground floor layout plan of a Watford family home before the interior design project — **Before**

Finalised room and layout plans drawn up by an interior designer in Watford — **After**

Every detail, considered

The pieces the family lives with mattered as much as the plan. We designed the kitchen and the wardrobes, planned the lighting and sourced every finishing material. They wanted to keep their original beds in a couple of the rooms, so we upcycled them to sit naturally within the new look, and sourced the rest of the furniture, decorative lighting, fixtures, fittings and accessories throughout the house. On site, we worked alongside the family to coordinate the trades, so that every detail stayed true to the design.

Welcoming hallway with engineered oak flooring, a carved black sideboard, round mirror and staircase in a Watford family home

Double glazed doors from the hallway into the open plan kitchen diner, flanked by two brass wall lights

Navy and white open plan kitchen diner with a Silestone island, bar stools and glass pendant lighting in a Watford family home

Kitchen diner island with Silestone worktop, bar stools, range cooker and white metro tile splashback

Open plan kitchen diner with white porcelain pendant lights over the dining table, part of a whole house lighting design

Sculptural white pendant light above the kitchen diner island, specified as part of the lighting design

Living room with a cream Natuzzi sofa, glass coffee table and cowhide rug, opening off the open plan kitchen diner

Living room with a media unit, Natuzzi upholstered ottoman and cowhide rug, open to the kitchen diner

Cream Natuzzi armchair with an Andrew Martin cushion beside a window in the living room

Living room with wall-mounted television, brass wall lights, a dark sideboard and engineered oak flooring

Detail of a carved white cabinet door with a brass handle in the living room

New ground floor shower room with marble-effect tiles and a slim black wall light, looking through to the hallway

Ground floor shower room with a floating white vanity, wall-hung WC and marble-effect tiles

New ground floor guest bedroom with a white bed, Romo cushions and an ochre throw in a calm neutral scheme

Mid-century modern West Elm globe ceiling light in brass and white glass in the ground floor guest bedroom

Daughter's bedroom with a window bench, scatter cushions and a calm neutral palette

Window bench with Romo and Andrew Martin cushions beside the bed in a daughter's bedroom

John Lewis side table and lamp against a Harlequin Paloma accent wallpaper in a daughter's bedroom

Bespoke wardrobe doors with Pushka brass hexagonal handles in a daughter's bedroom

Principal bedroom with new fitted wardrobes, a textured accent wall and Crucial Trading carpet in a Watford family home

Principal bedroom hand-finished Roman blind with piped trim

Principal bedroom bouclé armchair and side table beside the window

The result

Visiting family now have a comfortable room of their own. The kitchen diner has become the heart of the house, where friends and family gather, and the lounge is where film Fridays happen.

Services: Full Interior Design, including Lighting Design, from the brief through to installation.

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