"The wife was up for embracing a certain amount of color and pattern, which is what I love so much," enthuses Ainscough. And given the scale and ceiling heights of the Victorian house, it was "easier to incorporate that without it feeling overbearing."
The lower ground floor—"dark and dingy" at first—was transformed via a reconfiguring of the walls. Reimagining the kitchen, with DeVol Kitchens, provided a special challenge, since the space "historically wouldn't ever have been a kitchen," notes Ainscough, who opened up the dining and kitchen areas to make it more family-friendly (and better lit, thanks to the double-aspect floor plan).
While that wall covering wasn't to be preserved, a refined "nod to that Arts and Crafts style" was achieved with Soane's Wild Tulip wall covering papering the main hallway. In accommodating a young family, Ainscough's brief meant carving out special—and sometimes small—spaces.
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