Interior Designer in the Cotswolds
Old Homes, Made for How You Live Now.
The Cotswolds is full of homes with real history and real character. Honey-coloured stone cottages, converted barns, old farmhouses and the grand manors the wool trade paid for, set into villages and lanes from Tetbury to Broadway. A lot of them are listed or sit in a conservation area, which is a big part of the charm and part of what makes them worth doing carefully. Whatever kind you have, the question is the same: how do we keep everything you love about it and make it work for the way you live now?
The best projects here happen when we do them together. You know how you want to live, what you love about it and what quietly drives you mad about it as it is. We bring the eye, the technical know-how and the team to make it happen. The homes we are proudest of always come out of that back and forth, so we ask plenty of questions and we want you involved the whole way. It works best as a proper partnership.
Old stone comes with its own rules, and it pays to understand them early. Andy spent over twenty years on the technical side of commercial buildings before moving into interiors, so he can read how a place is built, where damp and heat move, and what a listed building will and won’t let you do. For a beamed cottage near Burford or a barn out past Stow-on-the-Wold, working that out first is what lets you open it up sensibly and spend the budget once, not twice.
Chapter Seven Design is led by Andy and Joe Smith, with a trusted team of trades and makers who know how to handle old buildings. On a listed home that can’t be rushed, Joe is the one who keeps everything moving and easy on you, so the months of work feel organised and, honestly, good to be part of. The people you meet at the start are the people who see it through.
We take on full home renovations across the Cotswolds and focused work on the rooms that matter most, from kitchens to bedrooms. We are just up the road in Leicestershire, so we cover Warwickshire and the wider Midlands too, and the northern edge of the Cotswolds is easy ground for us.
If you have a Cotswold home you would love to get right, anywhere from Tetbury to Broadway, bring us your ideas. We would love to hear them.