Anna Haines brings warmth and colour to a Georgian flat in Marylebone

A light take on Georgian decorating and a wonderful approach to colour has created a soft, rich feel in this charming London flat
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Paul Whitbread

In the main bedroom, walls in Paint & Paper Library's ‘Desert Rose’ provide an elegant backdrop to a bespoke headboard in Vanderhurd's ‘Matelas de Laine’ in aubergine. The marble table lamp already belonged to the client, while the green lampshade is Rosi de Ruig's card shade.

Paul Whitbread

Just as the finished result is beautiful and rich, the collaboration between Anna and the clients proved a happy and fruitful one, with trips to antique fairs and a back and forth flurry of messages when the clients found pieces they liked in Edinburgh. Like a few pieces in the flat, the marble table in the kitchen came from Battersea’s Decorative Fair when they all visited together. ‘The client popped off for a bit and came back with the table, which is just perfect for the space,’ recalls Anna. ‘It was a wonderful, collaborative experience doing the flat with them.’ It seems the clients got rather more than a flat that looks pretty in a magazine.