'If in Doubt, Add' – Inside a More is More Country House Reimagined with Bold Color and a Kitchen Inspired by The Designer's Own

Living room of a traditional jacobean home with wooden beams and a large tapestry hung on the wall, styled with artwork, a light green sofa, four tub chairs and a striped upholstered ottoman.

'Rich in character but gentle in tone,’ is how designer Henriette von Stockhausen of VSP Interiors describes the aesthetic of this Jacobean country house design tucked in a Devon valley.

Walking into its double-height, apex-roofed entrance hall, it’s hard to imagine that it once housed mismatched furniture sequestered from a local hotel or that the pale pink walls of the dining room had been damaged by a leak, while the exterior stone had blackened over the decades.