BOYSENBERRY
Berry
A new 500m² home in Berry transformed from a beautiful but emotionally flat shell into a place with genuine soul. Designed for a couple as their country retreat and next chapter home, we brought personality through colour, furniture and art, creating something joyous, generous and unmistakably theirs from day one.
Boysenberry arrived with good bones and excellent finish, designed by davis architects. What it lacked was identity. Our role was to bring the human layer to take a large, well-proportioned new build and give it the feeling of a home that has been loved into existence rather than assembled.
We introduced colour with confidence, using it to build mood and rhythm across a large footprint. Furniture, textiles and objects were chosen for warmth and story, not trend. Even the guest bedrooms carry their own quiet narrative known simply as the Green Room, the Blue Room and the Yellow Room. A storybook cue that makes the home feel instantly familiar and a little enchanting.
The heart of the project is a triptych photographic artwork by Lance Kelleher, depicting the Copenhagen flower shop of the legendary Danish florist Tage Andersen. It is a world so full of beauty it seems about to overflow the frame. Dark, rich and theatrical, it anchors the living room with romance and a sense of theatre, giving the eye somewhere to land and something new to find every time you look. The decision to scale it across three panels and place it on the room's only solid wall was one of the more considered calls of the project and one of the most right.
The bathrooms follow the same logic as the rest of the home. Calm, but not anonymous. The powder room is intimate and considered, a moment of warmth tucked into the plan. The main bathroom opens to treetops and wide sky, the borrowed landscape doing as much work as anything inside.
The project has a song: Kylie Minogue's Please Stay. The clients chose it early, before a single image had been drawn. It shaped everything. Warm, open, and made for connection that is Boysenberry.
