Bamburgh

Northumberland Coast

A Whole Home Project

Bamburgh

A coastal cottage brought in from the wind, held in warmth and layered texture.

Location Northumberland Coast

Scope Whole home, concept to completion

Service Full Service Design

Conversation, Concept, Creation

Bamburgh is a cottage on the Northumberland coast, set in a paddock of drystone walls with the sea beyond the window. A house built to welcome the weather in, and keep it at arm's length.

The brief asked for warmth and quiet colour. Panelled walls to picture-rail height, reclaimed timber over the cooker, a pair of tables cut from a single oak, and textiles chosen for the way they age. Pattern where it earns its place, plainness where it does not.

Scoped, specified and styled from first conversation through to final cushion, with Aubury's in-house team producing the curtains, headboards, cushions and upholstery that carry the cottage voice through every room.

Room One

The Dining Room

A narrow room given a low-lit glow. Yellow gingham on the cloth, pressed plates along the rail, a lantern of glass and brass.

Small, sure, considered. A room to gather in before the day has really begun, and return to once the light has gone.

The Bamburgh dining room, panelled walls, gingham tablecloth set for six, a brass lantern pendant overhead

A framed wine rack on the panelled wall of the Bamburgh dining room, brass hoops holding bottles in a ladder

A geometric brass and glass pendant above the Bamburgh dining table

Room Two

The Kitchen

Cream shaker cabinetry and reclaimed oak. A lintel pulled from older work, set above the cooker.

Star-patterned tiles running wall to wall, every surface chosen to wear its age honestly.

The Bamburgh kitchen, cream shaker cabinetry, star-patterned tiles and a reclaimed oak lintel over the cooker

The cooking alcove at Bamburgh, a reclaimed sleeper beam above and a red pan below

Bamburgh

Room Three

The Living Room

The bay window holds the room, and the room holds the view. A deep green velvet sofa set into the bay, a crab print in twin black frames, a rattan pendant pulling the light down to eye level.

Beyond the glass, a drystone wall, then grass, then the sea.

The Bamburgh sitting room, green velvet sofa and cream armchair arranged around a pair of oak coffee tables, bay window behind

A reclaimed timber corbel mounted on the wall of the Bamburgh living room

A ginger jar with a painted dragon sitting in the Bamburgh living room window, drystone wall and sea beyond

Room Three, Closer

Details

A stone pot of loose foliage, fresh flowers in a black vase, a stack of books on the tabletop.

The smaller pieces that settle the room.

The pair of oak coffee tables at Bamburgh, dressed with a black vase of flowers, a stack of books and a stone pot of foliage

Dried hydrangea and fresh eucalyptus held in a stone pot on the Bamburgh coffee table

The cream armchair at Bamburgh with a rattan pendant and a glimpse of the bay window

Room Four

The Master Bedroom

Sage panelling taken to picture-rail height, a deep bed dressed in white cotton and a tasselled throw, the light kept amber.

A room for the end of the day, without noise.

The Bamburgh master bedroom, sage panelling, a deep upholstered bed in white cotton with a tasselled throw and a framed print above

An amber ceramic bedside lamp in the Bamburgh master bedroom

A brass flower-shaped cabinet pull set into the sage panelling of the Bamburgh master bedroom

Room Five

The First Guest Bedroom

Sage panelling running the length of the wall, a rattan headboard the colour of summer wheat, a brass wall sconce with a pleated cream shade. Through the window a drystone wall and grass beyond the glass, framed by green-and-cream patterned curtains.

A Bamburgh guest bedroom, a rattan headboard against sage panelling, patterned curtains, a drystone wall and field visible through the window

Close detail of the rattan-cane headboard against sage panelling

Brass wall sconce with a pleated cream shade beside the bed, magnolia in a stone vessel and a black candle on the side

Room Six

The Second Guest Bedroom

A different feel for the second bedroom. A patterned upholstered headboard in warm mushroom and cream, two rust velvet cushions and a botanical lumbar print, a green stripe throw across the foot of the bed. White plantation shutters at the window, the morning light coming through in soft horizontal bands.

Quieter than the first room, but with a richer hand on the materials.

A Bamburgh guest bedroom, a patterned upholstered headboard in mushroom and cream, rust velvet cushions and a botanical lumbar pillow, a green stripe throw, white plantation shutters at the window

Rust velvet cushions piled against the patterned headboard, white plantation shutters letting in soft light

Close detail of the woven mushroom-and-cream diamond pattern on the headboard fabric, rust velvet cushion in foreground

We wanted the cottage to feel like it had always been there. Lauren delivered exactly that. Every guest who stays with us comments on the details, the pendant over the dining table, the way the bedrooms sit in their own light, the fact that every room feels thought about without looking fussy. It is doing everything we asked of it.

The Family at Bamburgh, Northumberland

Led By

Lauren Reece

Lauren leads her own projects within Aubury & Co, bringing a sharp eye for spatial composition and a feel for the moments that make a room work. Bamburgh was scoped, specified and styled from first conversation through to final cushion.

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