One foot in the house, one in the garden
A Victorian glasshouse room deserves to be treated as what it is: a threshold between the drawing room and the walled garden. We have painted the ironwork a glasshouse green, kept the floor as stone and let the planting be the pattern, so the room dresses itself differently with every season.
The only real furniture decisions are a generous rattan daybed and a run of terracotta, chosen to look as at home with wet weather as with a July afternoon. Fresh, verdant and utterly unpretentious.
Glasshouse green and terracotta
The room the plants moved into
The brief was one line: somewhere to sit among the plants when it is raining.
Chosen for a room with weather in it
Natural rattan with terracotta linen cushions that can take the damp.
On all the ironwork and glazing bars, an exterior grade for the condensation.
For the cushions and a simple blind, a green that vanishes into the planting.
Buy more terracotta than you think you need and group it in odd numbers. In a room like this the pots are the scheme as much as anything we specify.
Lauren, for Aubury & Co · July 2026