Lorna Lambrecht Interiors

My client had a dream to create one large open living-kitchen-dining space from 3 separate rooms. The kitchen had been the smallest darkest space in the house and was duly transformed into light bright functional space. My clients now spend all of their time in this room. This project has been a life-changing experience for them as they now live quite differently. They find they can all share this space at the same time, offering each other company while being engaged in different tasks.

This bedroom had good bones and a stunning Arts & Crafts fireplace reminiscent of MacIntosh. I used the muted yellow of the original fireplace tiles to inform the rest of the scheme. The mellow Chinoiserie wall mural settled perfectly in this period room with a view worth dreaming of.

This showstopper kitchen was created from scratch. This room was previously an underused sitting room with expansive views out to the garden, while the existing kitchen was a small, dark space at the back of the house. I proposed that all of the ground floor rooms of this house should change function to accommodate a modern new kitchen in the much bigger brighter room facing the garden. This family now eats outside on a regular basis as they have easy access from the kitchen.

The awkward asymmetric architecture of this loft rooms led me to consider a wall finish that would trick the eye and disguise the tricky angles. This bedrooms was designed for a pre-teen boy who was very particular about his colour palette. He loves his new room and was especially pleased with the hotel style lighting that can be switched from his bedside.

The stage is set for a fabulous experience in this beautiful holiday cottage. The buildings consist of a number of separate farm outbuildings including a piggery. No sign of the farm now though all of the remaining original features were sensitively included in the restoration. I wanted to evoke a comfortable 'home-from-home but better' atmosphere with this project.

The challenge in this stunning bedroom was to create an en-suite bathroom whilst reinstating the beautiful curve of the arched ceiling. Instead of creating a room withing a room, created a mid-height privacy wall for the wc and positioned the bath in full view. The proportions of the room remain elegant and refined while the room has become much more functional.

Original Art Deco cinema seats were sourced directly from a defunct cinema for this project. The colour of the seats was the jumping point for the rest of the room scheme, including a touch of Marilyn Monroe. The result is a sophisticated but fun experience much loved by the resident teens and their family.

Chinoiserie from the V&A archive sets the backdrop for this stunning bedroom. The colour cue comes from the original Arts & Crafts tiles in the fireplace. Plenty of room for a cosy seat in the fireplace or a tete a tete in the enormous bay window.

This beautiful Edwardian house had to have a kitchen that worked as a modern family hub whilst retaining an aesthetic nod to the Arts and Crafts origin of the house. I designed the long wall of wooden cabinets to be in keeping with the original cabinetry within the house. While the modern white cabinets may change in the coming years, the timeless bespoke elm cabinets will be a functional built-in feature of the house that will never change. These bespoke elm cabinets should outlive the rest of the kitchen. The elm used to build the custom cabinets was sourced from trees felled to make way for the Edinburgh tramway.

Contemporary redesign of a traditional London Edwardian villa. Several walls were removed from the ground floor to create an open-plan living room and kitchen utilising the entire depth of the house. While the ground floor was a large space, the challenge was to zone parts of the space to widen its appeal to the broader market.

This project gave me the opportunity to bring a very tired but gorgeous Arts and Crafts House into modern use. The house had been empty and institutionalised for some time before I got my hands on it. The result is a glamorous and sympathetic renovation of a fabulous Arts & Crafts mansionon the west coast of Scotland.

This small space was transformed from an internal corridor space into a snug music room. I sourced vintage pieces for this project to work with some of the existing furniture. While the guitars have pride of place, the room works equally well as a day-time snug.