Welcome to annienewman.co.uk
We are an interior design and decorating service inspired by a passion for art, based in London and the South East of England, we have experience working with clients across Europe and in the Middle East.
Services offered include wall murals and children’s murals, a room make over service, special paint effects, colour washing, stencilling, gilding and antiquing, with dedication to producing high quality finishes, and achieving the highest possible standards.
Paint finishes are a versatile, transforming treatment in decorative design. They may be bright and dynamic, to create focal points and interest in rooms, or contrasting, to enhance and highlight internal architectural features. When subtle and muted, they can evoke moods, soften spaces, and mirror textures, to create an opulent and luxurious ambience for rich fabrics and treasured furnishings, within the interior design scheme.
The most important step of an interior decorating project is to create insight of the finished project by first encapsulating, with rapport and personal attention, the client’s dreams, aspirations and vision, into an interior design scheme.
Hallway interior design and decorating
The hallway is your opportunity to create your first impression, so be daring and adventurous, and incorporate at least one or two elements of the unexpected to make a statement. What, in passing, would you like to say about yourself? Glamorous? Trendy? Modern? Homely? Romantic? The possibilities for suggestion are endless. A modern floral design using pearlescent paint, glitter, or silver leaf can give the hallway a glamorous look. Grander entrance halls may be enhanced with an understated over door trophy, painted in pale monotones (see gallery).
Hallways may sometimes be unevenly lit, and irregularly shaped. A dark hallway can be lightened with painted sandstone block work, for example. Repeating designs, produced by stencilling, or hanging regularly sized and spaced art, works wonderfully to create spatial consistency.
Dining room interior design and decorating
Walls are often clear because the dining table occupies centre stage. Dining rooms need to be vibrant and dramatic, something to impress the dinner guests; like a bottle of champagne, the ambience adds fizz to the atmosphere and conversation. Warm colours are popular. Vibrant art work can lighten dull corners, and act as a great mood setter.
A dining room may be a great place to consider a mural featuring flowers, foliage, and architecture in the baroque and rococo architectural style of 17th-18th Century Europe. We are fortunate in the UK to have a wealth of formal gardens to photograph as references for our murals, like the Chelsea Flower Show competition gardens, Kew Gardens, Audley End, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, Blenheim Palace, and Elton Gardens, and not forgetting Hyde Park, and Kensington Gardens. Equally rich in architecture, we have taken inspiration from Longleat, the British Natural Musuem, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Victoria and Albert Musuem, and Bishop’s Palace Fulham.
Lounge interior design and decorating
The lounge is a sanctuary to unwind and relax, so it must not be overpowering. The design must take into account and incorporate all the furniture, the sofa, mirrors, photos and televisions, and every item that contributes to the lounge as a functional living space.
When chosen or painted for a particular interior design scheme, artwork can reflect textures and colours in the room. Paintings on suede for example, can incorporate a panel of leather matched to leather furniture (see Gallery).
Colourwash (cream, taupes, mushrooms, suede) contribute to a calming, relaxing atmosphere. Some clients may prefer grey metallic and glittery paint effects. Architectural columns or even swags of trompe l’oeil curtains can produce a grand and dramatic effect. Clients with children may want a bright and friendly feel to the room.
Kitchen interior design and decorating
A makeover costs a fraction of a new kitchen, and saves time, effort, and inconvenience. A perfectly functional, but outdated Smallbone kitchen installed for over £20,000 twenty years ago, but that now has areas of peeling varnish, may be rejuvenated with an extreme makeover. After sanding, priming, and painting we applied antiquing to bring out the beautiful moulding, and lastly we varnished with a non yellowing varnish. The clients were very happy, and the new colour showed off the Villeroy and Boch dining set beautifully.
The conservatory interior design and decorating
Murals are popular in conservatories and indoor swimming pools, as a way of softening the boundary between the outdoors and the indoors. For example, tropical plants (painted from photographs taken at Kew Gardens and the Eden Project) with exotic African Grey parrots, and multi coloured macaws perching on lemon and peach trees under blue Moroccan skies. One especially romantic couple chose a mural of a gondola in magical Venice and recreate a beautiful treasured memory to bring them happiness as they sip hot tea in their leafy conservatory.