Furnish & Fettle Interior Design

Furnish & Fettle Interior Design Want to make your home look fabulous? We would love to help you! Showrooms in Wetherby & Pocklington.

Furnish & Fettle is one of Yorkshire's leading interior design businesses with showrooms in Wetherby, Harrogate & Pocklington. Our independent, family-run business offers a full interior design service to homes all over Yorkshire and beyond. Our team of talented, experienced interior designers will get to know you and your needs, ensuring they work with you to create and enhance your interior spac

e to reflect your personality. Our expert in-house fitters work with your designer to ensure a perfect fit and finish with minimal disruption. Our showrooms in Wetherby, Harrogate & Harrogate are full of inspiring room sets, wallpapers, soft furnishings and over 1,000 pattern books from all the leading fabric houses plus smaller items you can pick up and take away to add that little bit of additional flair to your interiors. You are always welcome to come in for a browse, or if you would like more help why not book a complimentary 30 minute exploratory appointment to find out more about how we can help you create the home of your dreams.

03/09/2026

And yes… sometimes that means telling you something you don’t necessarily want to hear!

1. Buying something just because it’s on trend.

If you genuinely LOVE it, that’s different.

But if the reason you want it is because you’ve suddenly seen it in every magazine, showroom and Instagram post, we’ll probably ask you to think again.

Will you still love it when everyone has moved onto the next thing?

2. Playing it safe because you’re scared of getting it wrong.

This happens ALL the time.
You show us rooms full of colour, pattern and personality that you absolutely love…

Then when it comes to your own room, you ask for beige because you’re worried you’ll get bored of anything else.
That’s usually when we’ll push you a little.

Not into something you don’t like but towards the things you’ve already told us you DO.

3. Filling a space just because there’s room.

An empty corner doesn’t automatically need a chair.
A blank wall doesn’t automatically need a piece of furniture against it.

And sometimes taking something OUT makes a room look far better than adding something else in.

We’re not here to give you the room WE want.

It still needs to feel completely like you but you are paying us for our professional opinion and that means we’ll tell you when we think something isn’t going to work.

Even if it’s not always what you want to hear!

If you want more tips like this comment GUIDE and I’ll send you our Complementary Guide to help you with your next room make-over.

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02/09/2026

We’d never spend money on….

1. A full matching furniture set
Sofa, matching chairs, matching footstool, matching tables...

It’s an easy way to furnish a room.

But it’s also an easy way to make your home look like you’ve bought the showroom display.

We’d rather mix different pieces, suppliers, fabrics and finishes so it feels like YOUR home.

2. Tiny rugs

We’d rather spend more on the right-sized rug than buy a beautiful smaller one just because it’s cheaper.

A rug that’s too small can make the whole room feel smaller and make your furniture look like it’s floating around it.

When in doubt? We’d nearly always go bigger.

3. Something expensive just because it’s ‘designer’

This might be controversial coming from interior designers...

But a bigger price tag doesn’t automatically mean it’s right for your home.

We’d happily mix an investment sofa or bespoke curtains with something inexpensive that we absolutely love.

It’s not about how much everything costs. It’s about whether it works in the room.

And actually, that’s a huge part of what we do for our clients.

Knowing where it’s worth spending more.
Knowing where you really don’t need to and making sure everything you DO spend money on earns its place in your home.

Follow along if you love interiors and want ideas for your next project.

30/08/2026

We know how it happens.

You weren’t actually looking for a new sofa…then you see one in the sale.

It’s half price, you really like it and suddenly NOT buying it feels like you’re missing out on a bargain!

So you buy it.
Then it arrives and…it’s slightly too big.

The colour doesn’t work quite as well as you thought it would.

The chair you already own now looks completely wrong next to it and the rug suddenly looks far too small.

Before you know it, your bargain sofa has resulted in you changing half the room around it.

We’re definitely not against buying things in the sale, there are some brilliant bargains to be had.

But only if you would have chosen that piece for your room anyway!

When we’re sourcing for a client, we already know the size we need, the colours we’re working with, what else is going into the room and exactly where that piece is going to sit.

So if we then find the perfect thing at 50% off?
Brilliant.

But we’d never change an entire room around something just because the price was good.

Save this for the next time a big red SALE sign starts talking you into something.

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Your room shouldn’t look better with the lights OFF.You’ve got the beautiful sofa, the curtains are up, the artwork is h...
27/08/2026

Your room shouldn’t look better with the lights OFF.

You’ve got the beautiful sofa, the curtains are up, the artwork is hung, everything looks great during the day…

Then evening comes, you switch the lights on and suddenly the whole room feels…very flat.

It’s probably the lighting.

One ceiling light trying to do all the work will light a room but it won’t necessarily make it feel good.

We want little pockets of light around a room.

A lamp next to your favourite chair, wall lights either side of a fireplace, lighting inside bespoke shelving, a pendant over the dining table, lamps that make corners you’d normally ignore suddenly feel warm.

And ideally, everything on dimmers so you can change the feel of the room depending on what you’re doing.

Because lighting isn’t something we think about once we’ve designed the room.

It’s part of the design from the beginning and if you’ve spent good money making your home beautiful, it should look just as good at 9pm as it does at 9am.

Save this for later and need the reminder.



Wetherby | North Yorkshire | Pocklington | Interior Design

25/08/2026

You know what we mean…

You find a sofa you love.
Then you spot the matching chair.
The coffee table is styled next to it.
There’s a coordinating side table.

And before you know it, you’ve basically bought the room.

There’s nothing wrong with any of those pieces.
The problem is when everything matches a little TOO well.

That’s when a home can start to lose a bit of personality.

We’d much rather mix it up.

A great sofa from one supplier, chairs in a completely different fabric, an old piece you’ve had for years, something bespoke, artwork you absolutely love, curtains that bring in another colour or pattern, a lamp that shouldn’t necessarily work… but does.

It doesn’t all have to match. It just has to look bloody good together and that’s a very different thing.

So if your room is currently looking a little too much like the showroom you bought it from…

You probably don’t need to replace everything, but you might just need to mix it up a bit!



Wetherby | North Yorkshire | Pocklington | Interior Design

23/08/2026

No.1: Curtains or blinds that close themselves.
It sounds a little excessive.

Until it’s November, it’s dark at 4pm and every evening your window dressings quietly close themselves while you’re making dinner.

No walking around the house pulling them all shut.
No climbing behind the sofa to reach that awkward window.
No coming home to a house that’s been sitting in darkness for hours.

And if you’ve got large windows, bi-folds or floor-to-ceiling curtains?

You’ll wonder why you ever did it manually.

Automated blinds and curtains are one of those details that doesn’t necessarily shout “luxury home” when you walk into a room.

But it makes living in it feel completely different.

You can schedule them around your day.
Open them from bed in the morning.
Close them without leaving the sofa.
Control them when you’re away.

And because the curtains aren’t constantly being pulled and handled, beautiful fabrics can simply hang as they were designed to.

For us, this is what luxury in a home should actually mean.

Not filling it with expensive things just for the sake of it.
Making everyday life feel easier.

And when we’re designing a home, these are exactly the details we’re thinking about - not just how it will photograph on installation day, but what it will actually be like to live there afterwards.

Because the best homes don’t just look good.
They make your life easier without you even noticing.

Would you have automated curtains or blinds in your home?



Wetherby | North Yorkshire | Interior Design

Your expensive artwork might be making your room look cheaper.And it has absolutely nothing to do with how much you paid...
20/08/2026

Your expensive artwork might be making your room look cheaper.

And it has absolutely nothing to do with how much you paid for it.

It could simply be too small.

We see this ALL the time.
You’ve got a big sofa.
A beautiful sideboard.
A large empty wall.

And then sitting in the middle of it is one relatively small piece of artwork.

It’s lovely but somehow the whole room still doesn’t look quite finished.

The instinct is often to play it safe because buying a large piece of artwork feels like a much bigger commitment than buying something slightly smaller.

But ironically, going too small is often the riskier choice.
The proportions are wrong.
The artwork looks lost.

And instead of becoming part of the room, it looks like something that’s simply been hung on the wall.

Sometimes we’ll use one large statement piece.
Sometimes a pair.
Sometimes a collection of artwork that works together.
But the important bit is getting the SCALE right for the furniture and the room around it.

And this is something we think about across an entire interior.

The size of the rug.
The height of the lamps.
The width of the curtains.
The scale of the furniture.
The artwork on the walls.

Because you can buy beautiful things...
but if the proportions are wrong, the room will still feel wrong.

And quite often, you won’t be able to put your finger on why.

Save this before you buy your next piece of artwork.

And if you’d rather have someone make ALL of those decisions for you, that’s exactly what we do.

From designing and sourcing to project managing, installing and styling the finished space, we take care of the whole thing.



Wetherby | North Yorkshire | Interior Design

18/08/2026

Because finding beautiful interiors isn’t the hard part anymore.

You can spend an evening saving kitchens, bathrooms, sofas, lighting, fabrics and paint colours until you’ve practically designed six different houses.

But then what?
Which ideas actually work together?
Will that sofa fit the room?
Does that fabric work with the curtains?
When does the electrician need the lighting plan?
Who’s ordering everything?
Who’s checking it when it arrives?
Who’s coordinating the decorator, fitter and other trades?
And what happens when something inevitably doesn’t go to plan?

That’s the bit a Pinterest board can’t do for you.

And it’s the bit that takes far more time than most people realise.

At Furnish & Fettle, we don’t just help you decide how your home should look and then leave you with a design to implement yourself.

We take care of it all…
The design.
The sourcing.
The ordering.
The project management.
The installation.

Right through to the final cushion being put in place.

So you don’t spend the next 12 months trying to turn hundreds of saved images into a finished home.

You hand it over to us. And we make it happen.

If you’ve got the Pinterest boards but would quite happily hand over everything that comes next, comment INTERIOR and I’ll send you the link to book a complementary discovery appointment with us.



Wetherby | North Yorkshire | Interior Design

25/06/2026

With paint colours.
Fabric samples.
Handles.
Wallpaper books.
And hundreds of small decisions.

But what makes a project successful isn’t just choosing the right pieces.
It’s knowing how they all come together.

Behind every finished room is careful planning, sourcing, coordination and installation.

From the first design concepts to the final styling touches, we manage the entire process for our clients, making sure every detail is considered and every element arrives exactly where it needs to be.

Because beautiful homes don’t happen by accident.

They’re brought to life by a team who knows how to take a vision and make it reality.

Thinking about a project… book a Discovery Appointment and let’s start the conversation.

21/06/2026

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16 High Street
Wetherby
LS226LT

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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