Drama is woven into every room in interior designer Emily Dobbs’s Edwardian London terrace. As soon as you step through the front door, you are hit with a riot of colour and pattern. “I wanted the entrance to be a wall of blooms to feel like I was back in Derbyshire, where I grew up,” says Dobbs. A country girl at heart, she was drawn to the fact that the house has a large wood at the back, enabling a separation from hectic city life.
Dobbs, 39, is a theatre producer, working on star-studded plays featuring actors such as James Norton, Andrew Scott and Lily James. She trained as an actor, but with the birth of her first child, Alfie, now six, she found the flexibility of producing more compatible with family life.
