Elmfield Road
A Family Home by Aubury & Co
Elmfield Road
A family home where every room earns its character, from the sage kitchen at its heart to the quiet details in its corners.
This was a home that already had good bones. Victorian proportions, high ceilings, rooms that wanted to be something. The brief was to keep the personality of each space without losing the conversation between them.
Sage green in the kitchen, plaid cushions in the bedrooms, encaustic tile carrying through to the family bathroom. Every room considered as part of the whole, but given space to be its own thing.
A full-service project led from the earliest planning conversations. Layout, joinery and specification decisions taken alongside the build, before any surface was chosen. Our in-house workroom then produced bespoke headboards, cushions, curtains and Roman blinds that held the scheme together across every floor.
The Kitchen
Sage green cabinetry, a Lacanche range given centre stage, and a patterned tile splashback that quietly holds the whole room together. The kitchen runs long and generous, flooded by skylights overhead and anchored by an island that doubles as the family's gathering point.
A built-in banquette turns the dining end into something more intimate. Pendant lights hang low enough to make evenings feel close. This is where the house lives.
The Dining Room & Snug
Two separate rooms that answer each other across the hallway. The dining room sits under exposed timber beams with a brass geometric pendant that catches the eye without demanding it. Sage cabinetry runs behind, stocked and styled, ready for a long Sunday lunch.
The snug, held apart from the dining room, is darker and warmer, built for evenings. A deep sofa in muted plum, arched niche shelving lit from within, a framed print that feels like it has always been there. A room you end up in rather than aim for.
The Master Suite
A bedroom and its en-suite taken together as one decision. An ikat headboard anchors the bed, patterned linens kept quiet enough that the room still rests. The door opens through to a vanity in burl wood, twin backlit mirrors holding the symmetry of the wall, and brass tapware warming the whole room from its details outward.
Considered rather than clinical. A suite that feels like one continuous thought rather than two rooms bolted together.
The Warm Guest Suite
Soft plaster walls, a patterned headboard with quiet presence, layered linens in plaid and rust velvet. A guest room built to feel layered and lived in, somewhere a visitor lands and settles into rather than passes through. Every decision, from the textile to the lamp, was chosen to sit beside the room's character rather than compete with it.
The bathroom that sits alongside carries the same story. Terracotta tile, brass tapware, a pothos trailing quietly from a shelf. The bedroom and its bathroom read as one continuous scheme across a single corner of the house.
The Quiet Guest Room
Another guest room, quieter in palette, built around a low patterned headboard that lets the room breathe around it. The dressing corner continues the story, a framed mirror turning a small space into a considered one.
Two guest rooms that share a house, never each other's aesthetic. That is the kind of restraint that comes from a full-service brief. Every room earns its character without borrowing from the one next door.
The Finishing Touches
Good design is in the decisions you notice second. Twin brass sconces with ikat-striped shades. A plaid cushion stack in warm rust and sage that echoes the kitchen without repeating it. These are the moments that make a home feel collected over time, not decorated in a weekend.
The Nursery
A nursery that feels as considered as the rest of the house. Botanical wallpaper in warm neutrals, a boucle rocking chair for the small hours, sage curtains that match the kitchen two floors below. Even the giraffe was chosen with intention.
A room designed to grow with the child rather than be outgrown.
The Family Bathroom
A built-in bath set below a sash window, cream tongue-and-groove wainscoting running the length of the room, a brass wall-mounted tap reaching in from the side. The floor is the moment, a six-pointed star laid in green and cream encaustic tile, cut from a single run and kept going right under the vanity.
The kind of floor that lifts the whole room without announcing itself.
The Shower Room
A walk-in shower tiled floor to ceiling in deep forest green encaustic, cream and terracotta flowers held inside each square, a radial medallion repeating across the wall. The same tile runs out of the shower and across the floor, linking the two halves of the room with a single pattern.
Brass Victrion thermostatic controls, a rain head with a hand shower, a round walnut-framed mirror, a slatted walnut vanity, a stone basin with a brass wall-mounted tap. A black-painted toilet seat keeps the dark thread running.
From the very first conversation, Lauren understood what we wanted. She took our ideas and made them better, finding materials and pieces we never would have discovered on our own. Every room feels connected but has its own personality. The nursery is our favourite, designed to grow with our daughter rather than be outgrown.
The Elmfield Road Family
Lauren Reece
Lauren Reece, Principal Designer at Aubury & Co, led Elmfield Road from the earliest planning conversations through to final styling. Trained at the Inchbald School of Design and several years inside London studios before returning North, Lauren brings a sharp eye for spatial composition and a feel for the moments that make a room work. A project she scoped, specified, and saw through end to end.
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