{"id":682501,"date":"2026-07-09T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682501\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:07:16","slug":"a-victorian-house-in-notting-hill-that-has-been-given-a-brilliantly-bold-and-colourful-new-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682501\/","title":{"rendered":"A Victorian house in Notting Hill that has been given a brilliantly bold and colourful new look"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018We felt really excited after our first talk with these clients,\u2019 says Venetia Rudebeck one of two founders of Studio Vero about this Victorian house in Notting Hill that was waiting for a new look when the owners approached the practice. \u2018We had a getting-to-know-you meeting,\u2019 adds Romanos Brihi, her business partner, \u2018finding out how they wanted to live and looking through their inspo images. We knew then they were going to be great to work with. We saw they love 1960s Italian design and they were not scared of colour, which is why they came to us.\u2019 The previous owner had left the stucco-fronted house in good condition, though with bland, \u2018very vanilla\u2019 decoration<\/a>. Their clients had no furniture of their own, so Studio Vero sourced everything for the project, re-using the existing white linen curtains<\/a>, fabric walling and a sofa.<\/p>\n

Open the front door of this and the transformation is striking. All the woodwork, from the hall up, is painted in aubergine gloss. The walls are pink, and an abstract Gideon Hatch rug and a green and white Palefire lamp make quite an impact. \u2018They had showed us a pink room in their inspiration images,\u2019 says Romanos, \u2018and we suggested putting the colour right up the stairs, the aubergine woodwork makes the pink less girly.\u2019 \u2018All our friends love the aubergine,\u2019 says their client.<\/p>\n

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Farrow & Ball\u2019s \u2018Brinjal\u2019<\/a>, a rich aubergine, is used for all the woodwork in the hall and right up the stairs, while the walls, in \u2018Jonquil\u2019, Edward Bulmer\u2019s tender pink, loses any hint of the boudoir when teamed with this strong colour. The greens of the abstract rug by Gideon Hatch is matched in the green and white lamp from Palefire. The bench, a find at Biombo Mobilier in Paris, is woven in wide bands of the same green.<\/p>\n

Simon Brown<\/p>\n

It is a vibrant introduction to a house, which, for the moment, is very much a place for entertaining<\/a>. \u2018They wanted a glamorous house for partying, with potential for family life later on. We made sure there was, for example, a coat cupboard big enough to take a buggy and, thinking ahead to toddlers\u2019 needs, we installed a small bath in the former shower room,\u2019 says Venetia of their approach to this Victorian house renovation.<\/p>\n

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The walls are in \u2018Drizzle\u2019 from Little Green and the window in Farrow & Ball\u2019s \u2018Brinjal\u2019<\/a> frames a view to the garden. The Peter Page rug brings a casual feel to the room, with its custom-made dining table surrounded by chairs from Howe and a banquette seat in green leather from Howe’s 36 Bourne Street, its back in Pied de Coq fabric from Le Manach. The hanging lamps are from BTC, and the existing curtains were trimmed with Munro braid by Mulberry. The mid-century bar is from Dorian Caffot de Fawes.<\/p>\n

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