Earls Court III

The dining room was set out around its restored chimneypiece — rouge marble with a cast-iron insert, floral tiled slips and a black-and-white chequerboard hearth — framed by new wall panelling and a gilt overmantel mirror. A brass globe chandelier hangs from the ceiling rose, and herringbone flooring runs beneath it and out through the rest of the floor.

Upstairs the rooms are papered rather than painted. The principal bedroom is wrapped, walls and blind alike, in a verdure tapestry pattern, with a sage ceiling following the slope, a roof light above the bed, a carved timber chimneypiece with a diamond-tiled hearth and a brass chandelier with frilled glass shades. A second room under the eaves takes a floral paper across the sloping ceiling and onto the wardrobe fronts, so the joinery disappears into the walls.

The dressing room was fitted out in pale blue joinery with papered panels set into every door, matched by a floral roman blind and lit by a brass chandelier below a ceiling rose. The cloakroom is hand-painted: blossom, butterflies and birds across a soft gold-green ground, with a gilt mirror and a brass tap.