With two young children and busy careers, the owners of this house, which stands on the edge of farmland above the Somerset Levels, wanted interiors that were sympathetic to the architecture, yet also relaxed and easy to maintain.

The centrepiece in the main bedroom is the four-poster bed that is part of the designer Nicola Harding’s furniture collection, NiX.

Nicola's oiled oak console table and ceramic lamps with pleated shades. (Image credit: Nix by Nicola Harding)

The simple frame, made from timber and bronze railing rods, can be dressed up or down. Nicola has added drapery made from her Checkmate cotton fabric with ticking stripe bedlinen. ‘The curtains have basic slot headings that anyone with a sewing machine can run up,’ she explains. ‘Here, the canopy is open, but you can, of

See Full Page