Inside Interior Designer Millie Turner's Charming Cotswolds Cottage

Hi Luxury Home Show, I'm Millie Turner, an interior designer. Welcome to our project in the Cotswolds. Come on in. Welcome inside. We started this project in 2022 for a brother and sister. The kind of theme for the house was for it to feel like a boutique country hotel because the purpose of it is for them to be able to rent it out so you can actually come and stay. Why don't you make up your mind for yourself once you've had a look around? Got a lot to look at but why don't we start through into the kitchen? So my favourite thing about this project really is that the clients have such a similar taste to mine so it made it very easy when we were doing the designs. From the initial design through to approval process was much quicker than most projects. We had a very similar sort of view on how this kitchen was going to look. We both knew that we wanted the really statement marble on the island and sort of wrapping around the rest of the kitchen so I would say probably the kitchen was really designed around this marble. It took us quite a while to find it because given how big the island is there was only a few slabs that really were the size of this island so it made it a little bit trickier trying to get the perfect sort of match on everything but we made it work. The clients were really involved with sort of everything in here down to choosing like the finish colour on the stain on the island, paint colours which was really nice to be super collaborative with them. The island was quite a key part of the room because we wanted to make sure you can fit a good amount of people on the side of it. There's a lot of space for when they're entertaining you can have like buffet food and things up on the side and just a space that is just quite inviting and quite sociable so that was really quite a big focus and also taking up a lot of space in this room it's such a wide room we've still got a really decent space either side of the island any smaller it would have just looked a little bit silly plonked in the middle of the room and so yeah it was a little bit a little bit tricky getting the right size but we got there in the end. Around the other side of the kitchen we obviously have the same marble and this one we wanted to take all up on the wall so you really see like the full effect of it more so than when it's sort of flat on the surface. We've added a little bullnose detail in on top of the splash back up here which is just another little another little design that just elevates it and what I really love is you'll see throughout the house all of the windows have a really nice sort of curve to them. It became a little bit tricky when I told the marble fabricator that the windows were curved meaning the marble also had to be but we have we've had the finished article where he did manage to sort of curve it off and then we also managed to keep it in line going through into the pantry over here so we followed the marble in through from the kitchen the same marble in here we've gone for a different style behind the splashback so just to have a little bit of something different a little bit fun in here we have that we have these really sweet little bib taps which I love same for this sink where we've got the rib details there is just really really lovely we haven't got the appliances on show so whenever possible we try and disguise them either within a cupboard or behind curtains like it just kind of gets them out the way makes the room still feel quite pretty and put together without having something that isn't quite so pretty on show and then the only other sort of thing in the room really would be that we decided to colour drench everything so the cupboards the panelling the shelves all in the same colour just really to make the room feel quite cosy it's already a small room with no natural light other than what comes in from the kitchen so it's quite nice to embrace that with a bit of a darker colour so back into the kitchen we have on the island you can probably see here we've gone for like quite a rustic stain on the wood and kind of tying in with the rustic floor gone for a different shade so it's not too clashy but still really brings out like the rusticness that you feel when you're in the Cotswolds oh so we have a bar in here which is hidden away and the doors sort of tuck in as well as pocket doors so if you're having people around you can just have the bar open and people grab their own drinks which is really nice yeah of course so this one so same in the pantry I hate seeing appliances on show so in here we have a hidden fridge which is really nice quite empty right now but a lovely fridge and freezer below quite convenient and then we just have a few pantries this one really just for glassware what I love as well is if you see the lighting it comes on really soft and then through the holes at the top you can see that it just like fades out rather than just on off and in here we have an integrated microwave and little pantry again some more marble on the bottom there trying to use all the marble we possibly could in this kitchen nothing went to waste and then another little coffee station in here which is sweet and on the end we just have some shelving again with some nice lighting sort of lighting it up with some cookbooks I love the little fiddle rails we've got on here as well again tying in the brass throughout the kitchen so this space is a really sort of open plan space for after dinner kind of coming sitting down chilling out also really nice for during the day as you can see now it's so sunny in here when it's a little bit hotter you can have both sets of doors open on both sides and it's kind of an inside outside living it just feels like you're in part of the garden we wanted to make sure that the seating area had enough space here really to sit the same amount of people as we have on the table just to make sure that it's super comfy for everyone we had both the sofas and the armchairs made bespoke in here the clients actually chose this fabric it was one of the first things that they chose for in this room I think they saw it on Pinterest and fell in love with it and then the rest of the room has been built around the colours on here so like we've picked out the red within here which you have on my accent cushions and also on the stripy blinds and then it took me honestly hours to sort of colour match this grey green colour in here to get the same for the sofas they're also super super comfy which was a really important thing we get all of our furniture made in the UK so it's really nice that I can go and like sit on it and test how comfy it is to make sure that what we're getting made is actually super comfy for the clients and like the priorities that they have is sort of being met with that we also have these lovely little lampshades which get a lot of comments the little pleated lampshades which we love and the detail on here is very sweet just sort of lots of lots of different things to be looking at and then tying in also I suppose with the island we've got again a rustic wood coffee table here which is quite a similar stain as what's on the island and so just bringing in all sort of that wood theme throughout and we added these lovely little plaster details as well around the stonework sort of tying in the new section which is sort of fully plastered to what is the old section that was an external door used to be able to get into this room into the kitchen sorry from within that area over there so really sort of full reconfiguration got a huge dining table over here it's really nice to be able to seat so many people the house currently sleeps 10 but eventually will be 12 once the outbuilding is done outside so we wanted to make sure that it seats the maximum number of people it was impossible to find a dining table so wide and also so long so we ended up having to get this one made for the clients bespoke and it's really nice because it's wide enough that you can also have like a buffet sort of serving down the middle like sharing plates and things with still like a really good size space for everyone to have their plates and cutlery and glasses and that was really important to the clients who love to host parties here the main feature in the dining space was these lights so we actually ordered these probably like before the orangerie was even built to start with and they were in gigantic boxes in my living room at home for about six months before this space was built because i just didn't trust that the builders weren't gonna break them on site or something i was so paranoid about it but they're such a lovely feature i think when they were at home in my house which isn't so big it felt like oh god have i ordered something that's just far too big but actually seeing them here they just fit perfectly so i love them we also have some high street finds here these are from perch and parrow which just work really nicely i love how the end chairs are slightly different and they've got the little arms to them just sort of breaking it up a little bit and we had these custom made just to make them a little bit comfier and it's also the same fabric as what we've used in the pantry so it ties through really nicely this is the more formal living room and there's another one at the front which i'll show you in a second this one we wanted to make it feel more formal like more of an adult space that maybe kids have gone to bed and you come in here and have some drinks or whatever and the way we've done that is by making things just feel a little bit more structured and it's still somewhere that we really want it to feel cozy and like you're not scared to sort of sit on the sofas and sit on the chairs but somewhere that just has more of an adult feel to it so we've done that really by the textures that we've used we've got the nice velvet on the sofa over here just again gives a bit more of an elevated feel fully working log burner and a really nice basket that's got a w on for wood farmhouse the marble on here is the same marble as what we've got in the kitchen so that ties through as well the joinery is already existing but what we did over here was we adapted it slightly by removing the center panel and creating the space for a tv which generally people kind of say when they come in they don't actually notice the tv's here because it's sort of tucked to the side within the cabinetry and the joiners that we use were really clever and really sort of made sure that everything has still had all the original detailing on so it feels like it's kind of always meant to be there but it's really nice to just use what was existing and make sure that we're not ripping out things that aren't needed to be ripped out and we've got the window as you saw from the other side going in through to the orangery here as i said before this was the existing exterior window so this was looking onto the garden and both sides we have these little window seats which are just really sweet really nice having the radiator below as well so in winter it's quite cozy put your feet up there and you're actually getting warm as well which is lovely and we have the colors in here we've gone for a bit of a color drench the walls are a slightly different color to the carpentry but keeping on the same sort of color palette and then again having all the greens coming through on the furniture and the cushions just sort of really ties it all in together in here so back into the entrance hall we then have a downstairs toilet here under the stairs so we wanted this to be quite fun in here with the wallpaper so this is sort of the main feature this is probably what we chose first and then designed the rest of the scheme around the wallpaper we then have a little green sink that ties in again with the color of the green and we've desperately wanted to have a thomas crapper in here i think it's just such a lovely english feature to go with one of the original crappers um quite funny name for a toilet company as well and then match that over with the thomas crapper sink so it ties it in really nicely um yeah it's just quite a small space but it just really works for what we've done with it the paneling is quite a nice detail and it stays quite light while still having quite a fun feel in the room um often you find that people go super super dark in here but it's quite nice to still have that sort of light and airy feel um just out of here we then also have designed a bespoke wine cabinet in here um at the moment it's just got some local cotswold champagne or sparkling wine and that's quite a nice little feature around the corner here we've added this detail in with push to open cupboards under the stairs so you've got three going down that which is just really good for hiding away not so pretty things like hoovers and bits and bobs like that over here so the whole hallway was kind of quite reconfigured so this was the original doorway into the formal living room which obviously is now down there we decided to keep this as a bit of a nook because it then gave us a little bit more depth onto the seat over here so like when you're sat here putting your boots on or whatever you're actually you've got quite a substantial seat rather than just perching on a little bit on the end here um and then just somewhere that you can hang your coats and they don't really stick out too much um the floor tiles is something that the clients really wanted to have in here so we've gone with the diamond pattern in the checkerboard marble which is a really nice feature i think it gives quite a cotswoldy countryside feel and it just feels like quite a traditional quite a traditional detail um we also love having most of our projects we do this where you've got the inset doormat just makes it much nicer there's no sort of trip hazards when you're walking in it's just much of a nicer clean finish and the only other downstairs room then is through here we have this little secret room so because it's a rental we found that people actually thought it wasn't even a room at all so we ended up having to actually put a handle on it which takes away a little bit from the secret but it's still quite a little novelty room so in here we've color drenched the whole room just to really add to sort of the coziness of the snug it's really a room that we wanted the like children to use when they're in here for like games and movie nights sofa is super super comfy so you can just like curl up on there and fall asleep watching a film we kind of added to the playfulness with all of the art that we've got around the room so it's all like higgledy-piggledy bits and bobs that we've picked up from like antique fairs don't think any of it is like new art it's all just like old vintage pieces which is really fun really big storage ottoman in here for like blankets extra board games loads of storage space in there just to kind of keep things out the way so whilst it's a kid's room it's still a room that's quite easy to keep tidy what's quite funny is the sofa you see how ginormous the sofa is and how tiny the doorway is to come in here so the original doorway was sort of where the tennis rackets are over there and it was a normal size doorway so what we had to do was get the sofa delivered before that doorway was blocked up and then it was just wrapped up really tightly because there was no way of getting it through the new door so by the time the bills had finished we were just sort of praying that it hadn't been damaged because there was no way to get it out of here not sure what they're going to do if they ever want to get rid of it but for now it looks great and we're happy with it again in here the joinery is all existing the only modification we've made is on the handles and we've also added that arch detail at the top and that was just squared off up there so other than that it's all existing that we've sort of managed to reuse try and reuse as much where we can so it's just not really wasting anything we've got quite nice lighting in here we've got the overhead light which is soft as as you can see like the lighting is pointing upwards so it's no sort of harsh direct lighting down on you when you're watching a film if you still want a little bit more light and we've got all the picture lights around the room same as in the living room we have a little window bench which is just quite sweet to sit here read a book whatever you might want to do when you're looking out the window and again having the radiator underneath is just a nice little cozy feature for in winter keeping you warm that's it for the ground floor the rest of it is upstairs so come along so upstairs we have four bedrooms on this floor and one upstairs and we're coming into the master bedroom here one of my favorite little things in here that not many people actually notice is that the side of the headboard has the same fabric as what we've got on the blinds on both windows and i love just focusing in on those small things what was quite important for the clients was to have quite good storage because whilst it's a holiday rental they also come here with their family and can stay here for like a few few days at a time so it's nice to be able to really hang your clothes up get everything out unpack it and also to have a little dressing table space with like a really nice mirror and chair what we wanted was like quite substantial chairs in most of the rooms as well um so like this is one of the smaller ones but it's still super comfy um so then if you're there doing your makeup or whatever it might be then you're actually not just perching it's somewhere that you can really sit and take your time um we had quite a lot of discussions over window treatments um i love going with the double layers having the curtains and the blinds it's also really good for like extra blackout as well making sure that when it's all shut absolutely like no light comes in whatsoever um but i think it also really softens it up as well looks pretty nice we have run this color all around the room so you'll see it's sort of block color on the joinery and then up here into the ensuite we have the same color and we've sort of drenched that then over the vanity as well so the vanity matches it's quite a pokey little room in here but it's sort of got everything you need you've got a shower within little vanity with some storage which is always handy and a little toilet and still managing to get some nice art and bits on the wall through here we also have the bunk bedroom which is generally for kids but also very good size beds so could have adults as well what we realized was actually we have the space to make it into two sort of small doubles rather than single beds so at a push you could fit two adults on both beds if you really needed to sort of squeeze as many people in as possible this bedroom is our pink bedroom as you can see um this was something that the client was really insistent on having this sort of shade of corally pink i think she saw it on instagram and just fell in love with it um so we've really used that color throughout the whole room quite a bold color on the joinery here but instead of like what we did in the master we haven't actually run it round because i think it's just a bit too much of a bold color it becomes then too pink um so we've used that on there keeping it just on that side of the room breaking it up with like the rattan as well within um and then on the bed we've got sort of varying shades of pink with lots of different textures so it's been quite a lot of sort of trying to color match specific colors from different brands which takes a little bit of time i really love the shape of the headboard that we've got in here it's like a little cloud but this room is always always a popular i stayed here at the house for my birthday last year and there were so many arguments on whatsapp about who was going to have this room like everyone loved it um so now it's probably my favorite my favorite room in the house out of the bedrooms i love this little chair i love the little frilly base to it we've also tied in the frilliness of that to the of the bed also has sort of like a ruffled base and just tying that all together and as you can see the blinds are the same fabric as what we've got on the chair just so we're not introducing too many different things but it's still sort of keeping it all in the same sort of color palette ties it in quite nicely there so into what we have as a family bathroom down here and we've gone for again quite a neutral color palette in here similar sort of colors to what's in the kitchen um and quite earthy as well so on the floor we've got the terracotta tiles we've got the wooden vanity and then in the shower we've got like rustic mosaic um moroccan tiles which again just adds into sort of the the rustic character that we're trying to achieve with the room but now i love the little little family bathroom i think it's very sweet and then into the last bedroom on this floor again you'll see it's got a bit of its own sort of color theme going on we used pigeon by farrow and ball which is one of my favorite colors like in this room it looks quite greeny blue but then in other rooms it looks more gray um so it's a really nice versatile color i really love the detail that we've got on the wardrobes in here by having the curtains within we've done a contrast of a pink as you can see on the chair here and on the blinds on both sides of the room which is just really nice it adds a little bit of femininity into it without being too girly considering we've got a very pink room next door and some quite playful artwork as well i love this little cowboy and then the headboard i love the fabric was a bit of a nightmare to source we had to get it from america i think the clients got really set on it and then realized that i actually couldn't get it over here so that took a long while to come but i'm very pleased that it has arrived now and it all just looks lovely as it's all come together um and then there's one more bedroom and bathroom upstairs so up here on the top floor we have a small little bathroom and a bedroom in there the bedroom is more aimed at children so we've gone with quite a cute little theme of running the same wallpaper up all on the walls on the ceiling and then that wallpaper also comes in a fabric so we've then done that on the roman blinds as well just to really tie it all in kind of gone for like a little mary poppins theme where it's just really cutesy and old-fashioned we sourced that vintage chest of drawers as well which i love and then had it painted to match the color of the wallpaper which has got the the navy blue and the ready orange in it as well and the headboards have been made bespoke because we found that quite tricky trying to not cut off too much of the light from the windows one of them sort of substantially high enough that you can sit there read a book or whatever you want to do but you don't want to block in all of the light that's coming in because the windows are so tiny so we thought let's do that little wave detail and then that sort of allows a little bit more light in than if you were just to do sort of a squared off top and we then have a little theme following in through into the bathroom so we've picked up on the same sort of orangey red within the bathroom we then have the same orangey red on the vanity again with the little sort of scallopy detail on the base of the vanity in there and we wanted to bring the blue in but we wanted a slightly different shade so in here we've gone for more of a greeny blue then on the wallpaper we've got quite a fun pattern i think it's always nice in a small space to really just have a bit more fun with it and especially as it's more of a kid's sort of room up here more of a kid's suite it's a bit more less adult more fun more playful and so that was really the feel that we were going for in there it's very very tiny but we've managed to fit a toilet a little vanity and a and a shower as well which is quite a substantial size shower so up here is completely new which is why we've then been able to add the bathroom into here and also quite a good size bedroom whereas before it was just quite a small bathroom up here was all they were able to fit so we've managed to gain two quite two quite good spaces up here and quite quirky as well which is sweet that brings us to the end of the house tour thanks so much for watching as i mentioned at the start the property is available to rent so if you wanted to check out more information and have a look there are some links in the description below as with some of my socials as well if you wanted to look at some of the other projects we have thanks so much bye hi luxury home show i'm leanne of good bones and welcome to my townhouse in london so now we're in the entrance hall of our victorian terraced house