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Tor creates beautiful home furnishings for houses around the county and beyond I make curtains and roman blinds - hand made and to order.

I also make cushions of all shapes and sizes, to order in any fabric. Piped and zipped, or finished with bobbles or beads, all are unique and come with real feather cushion pads. Other gifts include bean bags, French memo boards, aprons, lined wash bags and swimming bags, door stops and tote bags.

10/10/2026

I do love a good before and after… particularly when it involves an old chair and some lovely fabric! 🌸

I have a bit of a weakness for chairs at auction. Often the upholstery has seen better days, but the shape is lovely and I can already imagine what we might do with it.

A few recent transformations, starting with our latest - a rather tired green velvet slipper chair, now looking very different in a fabulous floral by Charlotte Peters Designs complete with a generous gathered skirt.

Another green velvet chair has been given a new look in Fermoie fabric, while a faded pink slipper chair now has soft blush upholstery, a gingham skirt and a fringed cushion.

The last chair is rather special. It belonged to my late mother-in-law and we’ve found a place for it in the guest bedroom of our Little Venice renovation. Recovered in a pretty SCHUMACHER UK | since 1889 fabric, it now sits against blue Fermoie wallpaper. I’m so pleased we were able to give it a new home.

I think one of the nicest things about reupholstery is being able to keep these lovely old shapes, while making them feel completely at home in a new setting.

Swipe through for the before and afters - I’d love to know which is your favourite. 🌸

25/09/2026

Such a pleasure to meet Ottolline yesterday at the Design Social pop-up: always lovely to finally put a face to a name!

It prompted me to have a little look back at some recent projects where we’ve used her wonderful fabrics.

First up, the boy’s bedroom in our Barnes family home, designed in conjunction with the brilliant Kit of House of Kit We used Ottoline fabrics for the Roman blind, armchair and cushions, mixing pattern and colour to create a playful but pulled-together room. Photos by Michael Branthwaite 📷

And a little detail from an Oxford family home, where we used another Ottolline fabric for a Roman blind with a matching pelmet. I love the simplicity of this one and how the pattern does all the work.

Always such joyful fabrics to use - and even nicer now to have met the person behind them. 🌸

02/09/2026

When we were asked to dress this round window at our client’s home in Northamptonshire, we sketched out a few ideas before landing on a coronet with curtains: pretty enough to frame the window, practical enough to close fully when needed.

Swipe through: from bare window, to pencil plan, to the real thing. Fabric by Colefax and Fowler with contrast lining by Nile & York Ltd 🌸 Coronet designed and made by and framing that incredible view ☀️🍃

08/08/2026

I do love a good before and after… and this one is quite a transformation ✨

This eaves room had become a rather muddled combination of study, Peloton room and general overflow space. With young children - and now a new baby - the owners were keen to make much better use of it, creating somewhere for the children to play and, importantly, plenty of space for friends to stay. It may well become their little boy’s bedroom eventually.

We designed two bespoke cabin beds to sit within the eaves, working around the wonderful old beams. And what look like drawers underneath are actually two more pull-out beds - so the room can sleep four children when required… which I rather love.

The really lovely part came when we started thinking about how to decorate all that new joinery. We had chosen this beautiful fabric by Lewis & Wood for the curtains, and asked the very talented Elli Brooks to take elements of the design and reinterpret them by hand across the cabinetry 🌸

Swipe through and you can see some of the process - from the beds taking shape, to Elli working out the design and then painting directly onto the joinery. I love that the flowers aren’t an exact copy of the fabric, but feel as though they belong together.

Inside the cabin beds we went much stronger with the blue, with little wall lights by Matilda Goad tucked beneath the beams. The central pendants are from OKA and we used pretty scalloped bedding from SARAH.K - the bed curtains adding another layer of pattern and softness.

It’s always satisfying when an awkward space suddenly finds its purpose… although I’m not entirely sure where the Peloton ended up! 🤍

02/08/2026

When we finished this drawing room in Barnes, Michael Branthwaite photographed it beautifully - that navy sofa, the rust and terracotta cushions, a simple roller blind doing the job at the window. We loved it as it was, but we always knew curtains and a pelmet were still to come.

Fast forward, and thanks to House of Kit who envisaged the space so completely, we’ve now dressed the window properly with curtains and a box pelmet in the most gorgeous fabric by Guy Goodfellow Collection . It’s amazing what a good pelmet does to a room like this: it grounds the whole scheme and makes it feel finished in a way a blind alone never quite could.

Forgive the iPhone photos (courtesy of me and Kit) next to Michael’s professional ones, but sometimes you just want to show the real thing, even if not quite ‘finished’ the day it goes up. 🤍

30/07/2026

There’s something about a green bathroom that always stops me in my tracks: this one from our project with Nefarious Interiors is exactly that.
Adam has brought in tongue-and-groove panelling that gives the room a lovely warmth, painted in Lichen by Farrow & Ball - and the original claw-foot bath has been repainted in Tawny by Edward Bulmer Natural Paint . The sash window is dressed in a relaxed roman blind made for us by Kimberley 🦋 soft furnishing creator in a gorgeous paisley print by Nicholas Herbert Ltd which softens everything without fighting the panelling.

The bespoke vanity is another of Adam’s designs: painted in Deep Reddish Brown by Farrow & Ball, topped in marble and finished with brass fittings. Lighting is by Pooky with shades from Besselink & Jones 💡

A proper masterclass in how far paint and panelling can take a room. 🛁

📷 Astrid Templier (1-2), me (3-4)

18/06/2026

We’ve shared this Wandsworth snug before, but this time we wanted to zoom in on one of our favourite details - the footstool. We took our client’s existing piece and re-covered it in Salvesen Graham Seaweed Woven in Dusty Pink, finishing it with their Melmerby Fan Braid in Rose. A small thing, but it anchors the whole room beautifully.

The mood board tells the story: sketch, fabric, braid - which we carried through to the cushions too - and somehow it all came together exactly as imagined.

The snug, which also features the glass-panelled dividing wall we added to give the space its own identity, is full of pattern and texture: fabrics (all tagged) layered together with frilled edges, contrast trims and reupholstered favourites.

You might also spot the Hadley Tray in Berry by Louise Roe for Sharland England - we couldn’t resist it 🌸

Beautifully photographed by Astrid Templier 📷

22/05/2026

A proper bank holiday weekend ahead at last: sunshine, blue skies and actual heat coming next week ☀️. The perfect excuse to throw open the doors and have lunch indoors-out.

A first glimpse from a project photographed for us recently - the open-plan kitchen/dining end of the room, dressed for exactly that kind of slow summer lunch.

Curtains in Vine Flower by , hung from a covered lath so the heading sits right up against the cornice and the arched doors aren’t obscured.

Bench seat in our favourite Olive Sacking Stripe, with a glorious cushion collation including fabrics by and

Lampshade by and tablecloth and place settings by 🌱

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08/05/2026

Three rooms, three colourways - all in ‘Squiggle’, which has quietly become one of our favourite fabrics. It does that rare thing of feeling both fresh and timeless, and behaves brilliantly whether it’s on a Roman blind, piped up on a deep kitchen bench seat, or used with a frill across a generous sofa.

Swipe through to see it in: Sage on a skirted sofa for our latest shoot (with the wonderful behind the lens - and our four-legged art director making sure standards stayed high)…

Soft brown on Roman blinds in a Northamptonshire project, perfectly framing the view 🌱

Terracotta on a banquette in a family home in Wandsworth, where it’s already taking the daily knocks of small-people life in its stride..

A reminder that one fabric, in different colourways, can carry a whole house.

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01/05/2026

A look back at Focus 2024 at the Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, and a reminder of how much craft goes into capturing a stand once it’s dressed.

These showroom spaces are deceptively small - every angle has to earn its place, and shooting in a tight footprint means working with what’s already there: the track lighting overhead, the lamps you’ve layered for atmosphere, the natural light spilling in from the aisle. Every shot is a quiet negotiation between all of them.

Watching work was a lesson in patience. Tripod inches forward, lampshade nudged half a degree, a cushion straightened, wait, reshoot. Some of these frames came out of corners barely big enough to stand in - squeezing past furniture, balancing the camera over the edge of a bed, getting low to find the line that made the room feel generous rather than cramped.

The finished images make it look effortless. The behind-the-scenes shots are a more honest story. Thank you Tom 🙏

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Beaconsfield
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