Green enough to feel like the field it sits in
Fenwick Mill has extraordinary bones: an oak frame, a vaulted roof and a run of glazing that pulls the whole field indoors. The last thing it needed was a busy scheme. So we have taken the colours straight from the view, a deep forest green that lets the timber sing, softened with moss, stone and a single rust accent.
The idea is a room that recedes so the architecture and the landscape can do the talking. Textural, calm and almost monastic, with just enough warmth in the timber and the wool to stop it feeling cold.
Forest, timber, one rust
Quiet enough to hear the field
From the first meeting: we did not restore a barn to fill it with clutter.
Built to disappear into the room
Big, low and soft, in a wool that reads as one more natural texture.
Creased, undyed, honest. The barn does not want anything ironed.
On the plaster panels between the timbers, so the frame stays the hero.
The temptation in a space this beautiful is to add. I would resist all of it. Three good pieces, the right green, and the building will thank you for the restraint.
Lauren, for Aubury & Co · July 2026