THE RUSTIC RETREAT
OUR CLIENT needed a space of her own where she could relax in the evenings. She had large attic room in her house that had been used as a kids playroom and later a games room. It’s part time use meant that it was also a magnet for unwanted household items and old furniture. Our client wanted to reclaim this wonderful room, make it beautiful and give it a new useful purpose. But she didn’t know where to start.
She contacted us and at the initial meeting it was clear that our client needed a peaceful and relaxing atmosphere in which to spend time. The challenges were that, with an attic ceiling and a dormer window there were lots of sharp angles and reduced head height to deal with as well as an awkward window to dress. The room also needed to house a couple of pieces of family furniture, remain usable as a games room but in a more discrete way. Our Client was unsure how to plan the space and lacked confidence in her ability to make something of the room. She wasn’t sure whether she should keep or get rid of a large item of furniture that she had owned for a long time.
QUARTERS carried out an initial measuring survey on the room, an architectural plan and presented a mood board and various space-planning options to our Client, explaining why certain layouts worked and didn’t work and how the layout and furniture choices would affect the kind of atmosphere she was seeking for the room. Our client loved the mood board and once she had chosen a layout she felt much more confident in her ability to progress the project, so she decided to take it on herself with further coaching meetings. Quarters advised her on the process she could follow to avoid problems, suggested useful resources for planning and various suppliers that might be of interest. Three further meet ups were held at which we discussed colour schemes, creating paint effects, furniture painting, fabrics and soft furnishings, furniture choices for the scheme and how to source these. We also helped to find some of the items she bought for the room.
Thanks to our Client’s dedication and hard work the end result was an amazing and relaxing space, which integrates the important pieces of the clients own furniture and makes sense of the room’s space. A new TV stand meant the Playstation could be disguised and the handsets were hidden inside pretty lidded baskets. The mountain mural helped the TV set to blend into the wall behind and also provided a fun backdrop for the gamers when they’re using the room.
