Maisy Dawson
Ready to combine and make over their existing formal dining room and small kitchen (“hidden from the rest of the house from the days there were maids”), she took inspiration from the Brits. “But I didn’t have the energy to start a dialogue with an overseas firm,” she says, by way of explaining that to get the look, she and her designer, Frida, ordered classic fittings from Swedish company Kvänum, specialists in traditional, top-of-the-line millwork.
The company describes the design as “turn of the century” in style: “a traditional recessed door hand painted on ash with visible hinges.” The new floor is oak in a herringbone pattern.
