Interior Designer in Harborne
Most of These Houses Are Better Than They Look Right Now
A lot of Harborne homes are hiding a sensible house under decades of changes. There is a strong run of Victorian and Edwardian property here, plenty of Arts and Crafts influence, and in the Moor Pool estate one of the country's better known garden suburbs, still a conservation area today. Good bones, bay windows, proper gardens, and almost always a rear addition or two that someone got wrong along the way.
Andy trained in architectural technology and spent over twenty years on the technical side of commercial buildings before moving to residential interiors. He reads how the original house was framed, where the structure will let a kitchen open to the garden, and which of those later additions are worth keeping. Reading that correctly is what lets a renovation feel resolved instead of forced, and it is the part most schemes skip.
We sort out what the building is doing first. The decorating is the easy part once that is right.
Chapter Seven Design is Andy and Joe Smith, and you get both of us. Joe runs the side of a project that decides whether the months of work feel manageable: the timeline, the trades, the steady stream of decisions a family renovation throws up while you are still living in the house. In the conservation areas especially, where the pace is set by what you are allowed to do, that grip matters.
We take on full home renovations in Harborne and focused work on the spaces that carry a family home, kitchens above all. The aim is always to keep what is good, lose what was added badly, and finish to a standard that lasts. We also work in neighbouring Edgbaston and across the Midlands.
If your Harborne home needs a clear eye and a proper plan, we would like to help.