Ben pentreath

Decorating tips from Ben Pentreath, the purveyor of the new English country house style.

So – you’ve either bought, inherited, begged, borrowed (or stolen) the idyllic, best-of-both-worlds urban cottage we all dream of living in. But now you have your hands on it, how should you treat the interiors?

Get to know the English architect-decorator behind rooms for royals and a smart London shop

This is Ben and Charlie’s own house, tucked away on an estuary in the far west coast of Scotland. Ben and Charlie found the tiny pair of buildings – a Victorian two-roomed cottage and a much early stone bothy – in derelict and unloved condition – in 2018, after a long search for something untouched […]

In 2013, we were engaged to work on the interior decoration of a substantial Edwardian house in Hampstead. The fine house was in need of significant refurbishment, and we worked closely with the local Hampstead architects Charlton Brown in developing internal layouts and plans for the new owners, a recently-married young couple. These developed to […]

With every room singing with vivid colour and pattern, the decoration of this Regency villa in the Hampshire countryside is far from the standard country house revival thanks to the shared vision of its new owners and their designer of choice, Ben Pentreath, who relates the extraordinary story of this three-year project

With sought-after interior architect and designer, Ben Pentreath, we’re diving into 5 ways to achieve a crafted, summery look in your home.

We designed this apartment for an Anglo-Asian family with a penchant for traditional English interior decoration but with a strong sense of colour and pattern. Occupying two floors of a Chelsea Mansion block, we started work by remodelling the architectural framework of the building – where two apartments on two different floors had been very […]

Ben Pentreath, architectural designer to royalty, has a new husband with very different ideas about interiors

This is Ben and Charlie’s own house in Dorset, which has been widely published in The New York Times, The Telegraph, House & Garden Magazine, and in Ben’s renowned book, English Decoration. The house is a simple, early 19th century former Parsonage, and when Ben took a long lease for the house in 2008 he […]