Nara Interiors

Cotswolds House

Cotswolds, United Kingdom
Independent design study
Concept study — not built

Cotswolds House occupies a historic stone building where the interior is treated as a quiet counterpoint to the architecture rather than a continuation of it.

Original stone, mullioned windows and dark timber boards are left to carry the character of the house. Against them the scheme stays deliberately restrained — pale plaster, linen, wool and a small number of dark timber and leather pieces.

Rooms are kept sparse so that the light, the stone and the floor do most of the work, and the few objects that remain are given room to be seen.

ScopeInterior design, materials and FF&E
Key materialsCotswolds stone, lime plaster, dark timber, linen, wool
Gabled Cotswolds stone facade with stone-mullioned windows, seen across the lawn
Principal drawing room with a monumental limestone fireplace, a tall mullioned window onto open countryside, a long ivory sofa and a dark leather chaise
Sitting room against exposed stone, with a linen sofa, a dark leather chaise and an arc lamp beneath a full-height window
Bedroom with a stone-mullioned window, pale plaster walls, linen curtains and dark timber boards
Exposed ashlar stone beside a full-height linen curtain, light across dark timber boards

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