When the couple came in, the house was all white walls, of which none would stay that way. “Our color to the color is brave and a lot of it,” says Caravaggio. “However, this can be overwhelming if they are not properly balanced. Noz's ability to create this balance is her genius.”
Each room has its own unique spectrum. A hidden powder room on the ground floor integrates a red flower wallpaper from House of Hackney, which was selected to compensate for a stone window in the room with turquoise stone and a gilded mirror from the Victorian period. Around the dining table on which the whole family takes place (one of the few pieces that have been broadcast from the last house of the couple), Nozawa has upholstered the seats in a pink. It is “a popular color during the Holi celebrations in India”. The fully redesigned kitchen contains a custom orange bluestar area that is moved by deep green cupboards. The Mudroom is a beautiful deep violet color, Brinjal from Farrow & Ball, which leads to eggplants in Hindi. And a Pièce de Résistance of the Victorian, the living room, is redesigned in a bold yellow, light for otherwise darker space.
The living room, which Caravaggio refers to as a “Italian salon”, also serves to merge both backgrounds of the couple. The room illuminates an individual fresco, which Nozawa from the local artist Caroline Lizarraga, which has completed several projects throughout the house, commissioned the ceiling. Other works of art in the room contain a picture of Venice in the main bedroom over one of the many original fireplaces, “one of Giuseppe's pieces that he loved,” says Nozawa. Elsewhere, small paintings of the couple's daughters are hung over coat – “these very important, very prominent placement options,” explains the designer.
The integration of nature seamlessly into the interiors was another guideline of the customers – and is obvious in the entire end result. “We love nature and wanted to bind our interior to the size of the surrounding garden,” explains Caravaggio. There are living plants in the four bedrooms and a hand -painted pastoral scene from Lizarraga in primary school. In the kitchen, a customer -specific Eglomisé -Backplash was installed in a botanical pressure from the artist, and the seed cloud lamp from ocher hovers over the dining table. In this natural storytelling there is a wonderfully intensive attention to detail – for example, the cloud lamp was integrated because it illustrates the early germination of seeds. “I wanted there to be different phases of the life of a plant,” says Nozawa. But ultimately there is the highlight of plant life for this house in the back yard, which was implemented by gardeners in Bramble & Vine.