DESIGNER’S TIP:

“I always advise people contemplating a renovation to work out what they love, whether it is an item of furniture or art, and use it as a starting point to develop a scheme,” says interior designer Helen Carter. “For Angela, an artwork of a windswept sand dune [see next page] evoked the look and feel she was after, so we picked up the key colours and carried the quiet, subtle palette of greys and whites throughout the spaces.”