Ben pentreath

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This house is more of a cottage – with tiny rooms and a wonderful, diminutive scale – in a fabulous terrace of listed early Georgian houses on the edge of Highgate, then just a small country village now consumed into London. Our clients are a young family who had lived in the house for a […]

Another day, another interior by my favorite British designer, Ben Pentreath. Over the course of five years Ben directed the renovation and decoration of the charming, early Georgian home in Highgate, London. There’s much to admire about the colorful interior, but in particular, I can’t get enough of the bold floral sofa and armchair in […]

This house is the first phase of a much wider project, restoring the estate around a Grade I listed castle on the south Cornish coast. A former estate manager’s house was to be remodelled to provide extended family accommodation suitable for the owners to live in while the main house was being restored – and […]

The renovations of Ince Castle, a manor house built in the mid-1600s on the rugged shores of Cornwall, in southwest England, were going to be extensive. But then its new owners, a London-based South African couple with two young boys, began spending weekends at this storied estate and realized they were actually happy with many of the things they’d thought about altering. “We had all these grand ideas, and drew up plans,” says one of the homeowners. “Then we arrived at the conclusion that we…

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

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

In his new book, British designer Ben Pentreath shares his tips for a natural and easygoing home inspired by classic Cotswold style

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 […]

I want to say a few things about my attempt to do a high-low Ben Pentreath room. Some things are next to impossible... Yes, yes, I know....