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Alcove shelving either side of a wood-burner in Bere Regis

By Thomas Matthew

In this sitting room in Bere Regis, the joinery is built around the wood-burner. We fitted both alcoves with shelving, set an oak beam across the chimney breast as the mantel, and made a run of tall cupboards for the wall by the hall door.

What we made

The shelves and cupboards are painted to match the walls, one deep colour all round, so the joinery feels built into the house, not added to it. Either side of the fire, the open shelves are full of books and model boats.

The tall cupboards have panelled doors and give the room its storage without taking anything from it. Like the shelving, they were made in our Poole workshop to fit these walls and no others.

In the garden room, a full wall of pale grey joinery runs out to the glazed doors and the garden. The two rooms ask for different things, and get them: one is deep and enclosed, made for evenings by the fire; the other is light and open to the outside.

Blue-green alcove shelving filled with books and model boats either side of a wood-burner, with an oak beam mantel and a mirror above

Gallery

Alcove shelving painted blue-green, open shelves of books over a cupboard base, beside the chimney breast
Painted alcove shelves full of books above cupboard doors, a model boat on the top shelf
Tall blue-green panelled cupboards running the length of the wall, painted the same colour as the room
The sitting room from the dining table, alcove shelving on both sides of the wood-burner
The wood-burner set into the blue-green chimney breast under an oak beam mantel and mirror, with shelving in the alcove alongside
Tall panelled cupboards beside the oak door to the hall, the sitting room beyond
Painted shelving beside the chimney breast, books on every shelf and the oak beam mantel alongside
View into the sitting room through the doorway: alcove shelving either side of the wood-burner
An armchair in front of the tall blue-green cupboards with panelled doors
Close view of the panelled cupboard doors in blue-green paint, a spindle-back chair in front
Blue-green panelled cupboards beside glazed doors that open out to the garden
A run of pale painted cupboards with panelled doors filling a wall, in a room with yellow walls
Garden room with a full wall of pale grey panelled joinery and glazed doors out to the garden
Pale grey panelled joinery across the end wall of the garden room, seen past the open glazed doors

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