A drawing room built for candlelight
The Ashworth is a room that only really wakes up after dark. So rather than fight the low light of a north-facing Victorian front room, we have leaned into it. The walls take a deep aubergine that reads almost grey by day and turns to smoke and plum by lamplight, and every metal in the room is brass, chosen for the way it catches a flame.
This is a scheme of few colours worn richly. Plum velvet, walnut, candle ivory and old brass, layered so the room feels furnished rather than decorated. Nothing here is bright. Everything here is warm.
Warmth kept in the darks
Lit low, lived in late
The brief, almost word for word: I want a room that makes you want to pour a drink and stay in it.
Few things, chosen well
Plush but tailored. The one soft, deep note the room is built around.
A pair either side of the chimney breast, on a dimmer, for the evening.
Walls and ceiling in one colour, so the room feels held rather than divided.
This is a confident room and it needs confident commitment. My advice is to take the aubergine over the ceiling too. Half measures read as a mistake; the whole thing reads as a decision.
Lauren, for Aubury & Co · July 2026