Light & shadow

The beauty of black and white is that it works with any decorating style – and welcomes a third hue with ease. Black serves as an anchor, heightening any composition, and white stands in as the light feature, driving black to stand out even more. Here, colour works its way back into the picture via stained glass windows. ‘The windows are from the 1900s and were in the building when we started work. We chose dark curtains to further make a feature of them,’ says Madeleine Blanchfield, director of Madeleine Blanchfield Architects. GET THE LOOK sofa, curtains,