Perfumers House, St Rémy

A former family home now used both for family guests and also for hire for conferences, with extensive gardens, large kitchen, dining and living spaces on the ground floor and colourful and quirky bedrooms with period furniture.

This property, built around a central courtyard, has belonged to a Perfumer’s family from Lyon since the 1920’s. The house was dark and old fashioned and needed gently modernizing both for rentals and conferences. Our intervention including re-thinking the fluidity through the long building, creating several new openings to do so, adding a number of bathrooms to be in line with current expectations, as well as completely re-doing the kitchen, back kitchen, storage areas. The light cheerful and colourful interiors reflect this new approach which has been a huge success. Much of the existing family furniture was re-purposed within the project, for example small tables became vanity units, leading to a quirky and pleasant mix of finishes.