< img src=" https://www.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/will-green-kitchen-hero-image.jpg "alt ="" > Will Green is a fourth-generation antiques dealer and designer based in Towcester, Northamptonshire, where his household has actually run stores since 1955. He matured in a house where furnishings was always coming and going– nothing fixed, everything dealt with, evaluated, and returned out into the world. That early training now informs both the antiques he sources and the bespoke pieces he designs under his own name.
A couple of years earlier, he and his spouse, Hayley, imaginative director of The Plant School, handled a manor home whose origins stretch back into the late 18th and 19th centuries. Sized simply under 5,700 square feet, your house is generous but not unwieldy; the remediation is sluggish and incremental, working room by room.
The kitchen, formerly the scullery, was the first major undertaking. “The previous owners used it as a storeroom, practically like a shed. But all the ideal bones were there for us to change it into a kitchen area: the flagstone flooring, the initial layout, and the step-down pantry/dairy.” Initial flagstones were raised and re-laid after installing underfloor heating– some weighing as much as 200kg.
For the walls, they used a mix of clay pigment dug from below the flagstones: the damp clay was sieved numerous times to eliminate impurities, spread out the clay on a baking tray in the warming oven of the AGA, and once dry, ground to a fine powder with a mortar and pestle. They gradually included this to the lime wash up until they achieved the preferred tone. Today, the space is shown their two black laboratories and baby. “The benefit of having a sluggish task is that it feels as though your home is growing with us,” Will states. “The dynamic of your home is altering with every room we work on. It’s a great procedure.”
Photography by Geordie Barrie for Will Green.
Above: Will discovered the antique table in Scotland years back.” It’s a common 19th century scullery table. It was somewhat too low for us to prep at, so I found some oak post sections and cut them down to size. Absolutely nothing’s repaired in place, it rests on them easily.” An antique clothing drier and metal pendant hang overhead. Backsplash tiles are the Warm Mix Delft Tiles from Regt’s in the Netherlands.
” When we initially came across your home, it was one of those unusual properties that has actually worn its years well,” Will explains. “It had actually been changed in the mid-19th century. The top flooring was considerably encompassed supply personnel lodging, and a scullery and game larder were added to the north side. Those additions become part of its story, and we were eager to appreciate them rather than eliminate them.”
The following a century saw “a succession of farming households who took care of it with a practical, rather than sensitive hand,” says Will. “They didn’t embark on much renovation, and in some ways that was a true blessing: the original bones of your home, the moldings, the floor-to-ceiling heights, the fireplaces and the rhythm of the spaces, were almost completely unblemished.”
Above: “The vision we had for the space was uncommonly clear,” Will describes. For kitchen cabinetry, the couple was drawn to Plain English for” their historical level of sensitivity and simplicity of design.” An unusual, historical bread oven stays practical and the variety is an AGA transformed from oil-fueled to electric.
” What struck us most was how little had actually been lost. There were no misdirected 20th-century ‘improving’ plans that removed away character. Your home had actually merely aged with self-respect,” states Will.
Above: The worktop is Plain English, stripped back to the raw wood and edges softened. The butler’s sink and bib taps are both antique. < img src=" https://www.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/will-green-photo-geordie-barrie-4-733x977.jpg" alt=" states will: & # 8 2 20; the patina and minor flaws that show the reali 20" width =" 733 "height=" 977 "/ > Above: States Will:” The patina and slight flaws that reveal the truth of reality is exactly the quality I react to in items and interiors alike.”