Berdoulat & Breakfast: A B&B in Bath - Remodelista
On Monday, we visited Patrick Williams of design-build firm Berdoulat at home in London–see Out with the New: Reinventing the Past in a London Remodel. Williams’s collection of Penguin paperbacks fills his London living room and the library in Bath. Williams created the combined kitchen and dining room out of spaces previously used as a dentist’s office, Masonic meeting room, and the green room of a neighboring theater among other things. “Keen to keep the original paneling of the walls on show, we decided to design the kitchen around a central island, and to match the molding of the panels in the unit’s doors,” says Williams. The vintage taps came from “a wonderful man in Bidford on Avon who restores brassware.” Neri Kamcili grew up in Istanbul and offers guests a choice of Turkish or English breakfast. In a corner of the kitchen, an antique rush-seated chair and evidence that Williams and Kamcili’s two young children are in residence. “A paper trail history of the house from before it was built” patterns the entryway. The documents detail how the house was to be built–”from citing the source of the stone through to the color the windows and front door were to be painted,” says Williams. The Elder Suite occupies what was originally the kitchen, and has a stone fireplace that once contained the hearth and bread ovens. The Elder Suite’s sitting area and shuttered windows; learn about interior shutters in Janet’s Remodeling 101 post. A floor-to-ceiling antique four poster in the Linley Suite. The peg rail, a Remodelista favorite. Go to 11 Favorites to find display-worthy clothes hangers. An antique stone statue of the Virgin and Child migrated from the couple’s London master bedroom to the Linley bath. The Linley Suite bathroom comes with a circular tub and brass fixtures, towel warmer included.