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25 Beautiful Homes
|November 2021
Interior designer Rebecca Leivars combined the colours of the countryside with a vibrant wallpaper to produce a standout bedroom with real personality
PROJECT DETAILS
OWNERS Cressida and Carl Smythe
HOUSE Grade-II listed Georgian townhouse in West Sussex
PROJECT To renovate a dated bedroom and turn it into a main bedroom with en suite that complemented its rural location
FEATURE WALL
The wallpaper, featuring a lush pastoral landscape with churches and waterfalls, and based on a 17th-century painted cloth, reflects the beautiful countryside surrounding the house.
Zoffany Verdure wallpaper, £132 a roll, Style Ideas Direct. LuxDeco’s Gild Mill pendant light, £3,080, would work. Try Graham and Green’s Umberto brass chest of drawers, £850. Made’s Julius quilted bedspread in Antique Gold, £109, is similar
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