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KINDLY is a Cotswold interior design studio creating refined, organic spaces. We design thoughtful homes that balance beauty, function and sustainability.

Rooted in nature, we design layered, sustainable homes with timeless warmth, texture and function. KINDLY is a UK interior design studio creating refined, organic spaces rooted in nature.

27/10/2026

The kitchen might be the room you’re most excited about, but it usually isn’t the best place to begin a whole-house renovation.

Before individual rooms are designed, we want to understand how the whole house needs to work.

Where does everyone enter? Where do coats and shoes actually go? How do you move between the kitchen and garden? Is there somewhere genuinely comfortable to work from home? What happens when you have eight people staying rather than two?

Those questions affect layouts, lighting, joinery, plumbing and ultimately the amount of building work required.

Once the underlying flow is right, individual rooms become much easier to resolve.

For larger renovations, this early stage is often where some of the most valuable design decisions are made.

25/10/2026

A little look at the dining room at Northmoor Road.

We love how the dark bronze-framed glazed doors give the room a more contemporary feel, while allowing light to flow between the spaces. The oak floors, textured upholstery and sculptural lighting bring warmth and softness to the darker details.

A lovely mix of old and new, and a room that feels very much at home in this historic Oxford house.

21/10/2026

When we’re brought into the renovation of an older house, some of the most important decisions are about what stays.

Original fireplaces, uneven walls, old doors, deep window reveals and slightly unconventional proportions can all be tempting to tidy up, particularly when the rest of the house is being changed.

But those details are often what give a period home its character.

We tend to look first at what is genuinely significant to the building, what can be repaired rather than replaced, and what might become more beautiful once the newer layers around it are stripped away.

A successful renovation doesn’t need to preserve everything. It does need to understand what it’s changing.

If you’re planning a period home or Cotswolds renovation, this is one of the conversations worth having before the drawings become too fixed.

20/10/2026

A little more about Anya, Co-Founder of Kindly.

Anya’s background is in staging for the high-end London property market, where she developed an instinct for proportion, composition and the details that make a room feel complete.

Today, that same eye is applied in a more personal way. She has a particular love of sourcing unusual pieces, mixing old and new, and finding objects that bring individuality to a scheme.

“I’m always drawn to pieces with character, but they need to feel right for the people living there. I love combining new finds with things clients already own, whether that is artwork, furniture, collections or objects with a story behind them.”

For Anya, a home feels most interesting when it has layers; some chosen, some collected and some carried forward.

17/10/2026

We keep coming back to this little cloakroom because it captures the idea behind Northmoor so well. The intention was for it to feel as though you had stepped into Tolkien’s world, with the monochrome palette referencing words on a page and the illustrated wallpaper adding a sense of narrative around the room.

The black tiles and chequerboard floor continue that graphic feel, while the green-veined stone basin and aged brass fittings bring in texture, warmth and a little irregularity.

It is a small space, but one with a very specific atmosphere, and one of our favourite corners of Northmoor.

14/10/2026

We chose these Armac Martin handles at Northmoor knowing they would change with use.

The dark bronze finish is already started to wear back in the areas that are touched most, revealing a warmer brass tone underneath. It’s subtle, but it gives the hardware much more character than a finish designed to stay completely uniform.

That kind of change is something we actively look for in certain materials. Over time, they develop a patina that records how a room is used.
For us, longevity is not about keeping everything looking pristine. It is about choosing materials that can age well and become more connected to the life of the house over time.

This is one of our favourite examples at Northmoor, where the brass is beginning to show through against the dark joinery.

Is there anything in your home you’ve grown to love more as it’s aged?

11/10/2026

The drawing room at Northmoor has always had a slightly darker feel to it, so we chose to lean into that rather than try to make it something it isn’t.

Farrow & Ball's Down Pipe gives the room its depth, with Harris Tweed wool curtains softening the edges. From there, we layered in a mix of classic pieces, mid-century references and more contemporary furniture so it feels collected rather than overly matched.

One of our favourite details is the antique writing desk, with the owner’s vintage typewriter sitting on top.

Given the history of the house, there’s an obvious literary connection, but we didn’t want that to feel staged. The current owner is a writer too, so it feels personal to the family and completely at home in the room.

It’s often the combination of colour, texture and the objects that already mean something to the people living there that gives a room its atmosphere.

Which detail stands out to you most?

06/10/2026

There is a particular pleasure in specifying something when you understand how it has been made.

We visited the Tom Faulkner workshop in Swindon a few years ago and saw first-hand how their pieces are shaped, welded, ground and finished by hand.
What we love most is the way the metalwork sits alongside other materials. Coloured Venetian glass, marble and timber all bring their own texture and weight, and together the pieces feel incredibly tactile and sculptural.

We’ve used their Memphis coffee table in the orangerie, and we have a real soft spot for the Lily cocktail table. The Venetian glass has this wonderful almost jewel-like quality to it, like boiled sweets in the best possible way, especially when it catches the light.

That mix of craftsmanship, material and form is what makes the pieces so memorable. You can see the hand of the maker, but the finished result still feels refined and considered.

It’s always useful to understand what sits behind a finished piece. Seeing the process gives us a much better sense of the material, the finish and how something is likely to live over time.

Address

Bear Court, 34 Lower High Street
Burford
OX184RR

Telephone

+447767485376

Website

http://interiorsbykindly.co.uk/, https://uk.pinterest.com/interiorsbykindly/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/interiors

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