Meet The Interior Designer: Salvesen Graham

Our Background

We met at Durham – exactly where neither of us were researching interiors – but a couple of many years later we have been both of those working for interiors procedures and fulfilled up to communicate about the marketplace – its challenges and our successes, but also how we desired to see it come to be much more qualified. As time went on, we realised we equally needed family members and careers, so by forming a partnership in 2013, we knew we could retain the business going as a staff. Now, there are 6 interior designers, and two added members of personnel who work on the item side. We normally have 10 to 15 initiatives on the go at any one particular time, with ten typically lively, and the other individuals starting off or finishing.

We both trained at KLC and started off out performing for ‘old fashioned’ decorators – who were actual mentors. The classes are a excellent way to fully grasp the foundations of fantastic layout and understand the technological facet. Dealing sensitively with diverse clientele is only some thing you can discover on the position. 

Style & Ethos

What we generate is timeless interiors that have a refreshing and useable come to feel to them – in other words, they require to last. We glimpse back at tasks from when we 1st begun, and they continue to truly feel as applicable now as they did then. We often get started with some thing standard and try out to convey it up to day. For illustration, a person of our wallpaper layouts for our new collection is based on an aged-fashioned ‘Tree of Life’ pattern – only with a little bit of white place to make it come to feel fresh. It’s fine to include a exciting cushion or seasonal accents, but the bones of the scheme have to sense timeless and very well-proportioned to make room for them.

Color & Products

We do have a Salvesen Graham signature color palette – mustard yellow, raspberry pink, olive eco-friendly, deep blue and pale blush. By constructing them into our product selection, we can clearly show people today how to introduce these colours in tiny methods. If a home seems to be way too tonal, it is superior to toss in a multi-coloured ingredient. It is an easy way to integrate far more colour if you’re afraid of it. You can also pull out the colours you are comfortable with and insert much more when you really feel braver.

We’re huge advocates of working with antiques in interiors, too. Aesthetically, they’re normally much more attractive and from a sustainability point of watch, you are extending the lifecycle of a specified piece. They’re commonly superior designed, as nicely, and you can constantly make them search a lot more contemporary with some intelligent styling – simply set a brightly coloured lacquer tray on top of a brown aspect desk to make it pop. 

Antiques can give a place excess weight and character. Although they get the job done well in a period of time home, they’re useful in a residence which has been stripped back, much too, as they insert back in detail and curiosity. Our mantra is, as long as the style and design is fantastic, it doesn’t subject what time period it’s from – it will sit properly with a thing else of high quality style and design – assume a Georgian table with a 1970s Murano glass lamp.