Beth Barker Designs

I thought I would share some peach pink and ochre with you today.
It’s not an easy mix to get right but just looks beautiful when it is🧡
We are a studio that holds so many accounts with so many fabulous brands, we can access so much for our clients and not have to work in the confines of anything.( budgets may kick in there somewhere!)
It means with our help you have no limitations !!
Here we are working with a scheme that will be for a bedroom and en-suite and our clients have requested our help to organise the bathroom designs and all the furnishings and lighting for their bedroom .😊
We can organise installation for our designs and with our long standing teams we can turn it into your reality😊
Here we are working with some colour palettes arising from our main wallpaper by with their Emania stripe in colourway plaster. Gorgeous 🧡
We will move this colour palette into the en suite with tiles by .
The multi coloured tile here is our guide for all the colour mixes we can use to design your bespoke tiles.
Carpets and rug ideas are from and
Where can we take you on your journey?

Some other suppliers here are

It’s all about the textures mixed with planting.💚
This room we built as an extension in Tunbridge wells and it leads out to the garden.
The brickwork is extended into the outdoor space as retaining walls which was designed at the same time by 🌻. Having this link with our teams allows us to always keep the interior in sink with your outside space. 👌
Do you have a space that you just can’t get that connection to work and you need a team to liaise closely to bring you the perfect solution?
You can’t get much closer than a husband and wife team!! 🌸🌷🌻

A fabulous few days in Seville with hubby Mark .
Fabulous central location in the city ( more luck than judgement on my part🤣)
We only had one full day and two half days but we crammed in as much as we could since it was the first time in this city.
We did a combined tour of the amazing cathedral and the real Alcazar. Honestly spectacular. What incredible architecture. 💚I would Recomend doing these separately if you can as 4 hours later I was just a tiny weeny bit exhausted so we headed off for some great Tapas and very large gin and tonic !!
We were so lucky with the weather too. By midday it was 20 degrees and blue sky the whole time.




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So this morning just playing around with the new tones for a client who loves this palette. 🧡
We are just using the peach as a start and then mixing it up with some wools, printed linens , wallpapers and a touch of velvet😘
We love the trimmings by and these fabulous paint colours by
Layer on that texture and mix up those florals with a bit of stripe. This one here is by .🧡
The flat weave carpets are by
Beautiful textures in herringbone and weaves that give you a look of Sisal but are wool. Gorgeous!
When we are producing schemes for our clients we will always get sampling for pretty much everything where it is at all possible.
We are true believers in using our extensive experience and long-standing relationships with so many suppliers to give you the widest selection of products.
If you check out our tags you can see a few of the companies we deal with.

Well here it is 2024 and the official Pantone colour of the year!!
Peach Fuzz 😘
Pantone have been choosing a colour officially now for 25 years and you are going to see this arriving in all our fashions and interiors.
I have to say this one I can see why,
it’s officially been decided that it is gently nurturing, light but impactful, poetic and romantic whilst gently awakening the senses , our mind body and spirit.
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I think it is and a lot easier to use than last years official Magenta. Not a fan of that one and really going to date I think.
This one much more user friendly!
Don’t worry we won’t be rushing around to put this in everyone’s scheme🤣
You will see it as you scroll through your Pinterest and in clothing and accessories it always arrives a bit faster.
Happy new year everyone 🎉

What a lovely day yesterday. Headed up to Greenwich for a bit of creative inspiration and chill out time .
Greenwich market was a great stop with some fabulous creatives and one talent there that particularly stood out was the work of Jessica .floristry
Wow her wreaths take it to another level. Check her out for Christmas.
Good news is she has a date in Tonbridge and is sometimes in the Sevenoaks area. 😘🎄fabulous .👌
We then headed for the truly inspirational
What an amazing space for true creatives to be able to work.
Check out this fantastic award winning talent .💚💚
She is something special and worth following in the future…..
Watch that space.

Yesterday we spent a bit of a different day in Sicily.
It was quite a trip up to the heights of Mount Etna and the Alcantara valley gorge. Wow!
The Sicilian people take Mount Etna and it’s eruptions as an everyday part of their lives and we learned so much about it yesterday.
We hiked around some of the craters formed by some of the last major eruptions and stood next to the last lava flows from this August. A fascinating site and feels like you are on some kind of moonscape.
It is cold up there hence the coats!
So glad we made the trip. !!

We came back down to Taormina late to find they had had rain and we had missed it all. That had got to be a first for us!!!
Today is our last day and it is a sunny beautiful day for us just to relax by the pool I think.
We shall return.💚💚💚

Italy has always been a place that I wanted to spend some time to get to know better and this week we are in the beautiful island of Sicily and our base is Taormina.
What a beautiful spot to explore.💚😎
I can understand why this place was so well visited historically both as an area for visitors wanting to visit a beautiful town but also a place of huge historic influence .
The amphitheatre here in Taormina is fabulous and was first built by the Greeks in 300BC wow!!
The views now are completely breathtaking as the crumbling walls reveal Mount Etna here in the background.🌋
Tonight we are heading over for dinner at






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So many of our clients need a bit of help with a complete vision of a room or whole property.
We can put everything together for you down to the last detail and sampling will be provided for everything we possibly can.
Oh we love a mood board and it can be so helpful when you have that visual reference to help you imagine your space💚💚
We can give you options on schemes to include all finishes, flooring, lighting, furniture of every description and every fabric down to the last fringe detail on a lampshade🌈🌈
If you have lost your way a bit you are not alone. We find that people can become weary especially when trying to attempt a full renovation project.
We pride ourselves on a friendly down to earth approach that can take you as far out the box as you would like to go….

Sometimes this is the start of a scheme.🙏
Getting it all out there. Start feeling a vibe.
We are very lucky to be able to have so many long standing direct accounts with so many fabric houses and suppliers of everything from carpets and tiles to all flooring and lighting companies😊
It gives our clients confidence that we have no constraints on where we will try to direct you or be able to source our inspiration from.
It’s as wide as you want to go…
As outside that box as you want us to stretch you…..
Happy Friday everyone. 💚
It’s another busy day in the studio at HQ.

Absolutely loved this room we did for our lovely clients which was completed just before Christmas.
This bespoke sideboard was made by our fabulous joiners to our design and looks amazing in this dining room.
It runs along the whole length of the wall almost and just gives such a statement.
The colour matching took some trialing and the bespoke handles were made to our exact size and specification by the fantastic 😘
The 3 fabulous mirrors above were made by .
Sooo beautiful. 💚🙏
I literally couldn’t stop looking at the amazing finished design.

What a lovely stay we’ve had in this amazing city. The Riad we’ve stayed in have been so helpful and friendly with everything. The lovely staff even went out early on the first breakfast morning to locate gluten free bread for me😊so kind.
Thankyou all
A lovely base to explore the city from.
Our bedroom ceiling was a work of art too💚
Some other fantastic restaurants and cafes to visit here are

A night in the Atlas Mountains and a walk through a Berber village. A lovely hotel with home grown food. So quiet and peaceful.

Again we were so lucky with the weather. Beautiful💚
Back in Marrakech for our last day.💚💚

Well a quiet January for me on insta. Covid hit at Christmas and it was a long haul😬
Spending a few days in Marekech in the sun 😎.
Love this vibrant city with all its colour, smells and noise. !
We are just off to the Atlas Mountains now for a night which will be a bit quieter and calmer.
Can’t believe we’ve had lovely weather since Saturday.

We love this detail here. This bay pelmet with contrast Roman blinds was designed and made by us for a lovely client with a listed property.
Not a straight wall or beam in sight!!💚
All our bespoke curtains and blinds are always made with such care.
This detail around the beam sets our work apart and just takes it to another level.
Love this. 😘

….and sometimes you just want the simplest colour scheme but it’s all about textures.👌
Here we used various white and off white velvets on the furniture which was designed especially for the client.
We made it in modular form as it was an apartment at the top of a lot of stairs!!
The mirrored coffee was designed by us to be the perfect size ,reflect light everywhere and make the room feel bigger as we were in the eaves.Definately no children in this space😊
We painted the wood in white and layered loads of cushions.
If you want a simple palette keep layering those textures! 💚

Sometimes it’s just hard to visualise and a little bit of help can stop you making those expensive mistakes.😬😬
We can help with all aspects of design and it probably isn’t as expensive as you think to have some professional help and advise.
This scheme was created with a very sensibly priced budget and includes a collection of things from a wide variety of suppliers.
That’s where our up to the minute knowledge of what every supplier is producing allows us to know where to go for you to get what you need.
Obviously we can create anything alongside our long-standing trade teams!
If it doesn’t exist we can create it!!

This is everything that we believe in when we design for our clients.
It is about who you are and how your home should reflect back to you.
During these last few years we have all needed our homes to be more than they were before, work harder with what we need them to do.
We always keep in mind who you are and what you need but always have awareness of future proofing your property just incase life takes an unexpected turn.

An impromptu trip from the Algarve to Lisbon yesterday and loved it.💚
The rain had come in and anyone that knows me will not be surprised at all by that!!
I think one holiday in the last 7 years was had without rain🤣
Had wanted to go to Lisbon for ages so we jumped in the car and headed off on hour 3 hour journey to take in the city.
I found a real mix here of the beautiful old buildings with too many just being left to fall down or being demolished. 🙁
Loved the city and under our very stylish plastic ponchos , headed out in a thunderstorm!!
The sun came out really quickly though.
A glass of rose and some fabulous tapas
Heading back now to the Algarve for a couple more days😊

Let’s talk loft conversions…..
In this project we designed the entrance to the new loft conversion to be as architecturally beautiful as the rest of the house.💚💚
In love with the bespoke staircase made and designed with us by our fabulous joiners along with storage well thought through for every nook and cranny!!👌
You can never ever have enough storage.EVER!!✅✅✅
The stair runner is by and was chosen to pick up on the architectural detail you can just see on the metalwork spindles.
Have you got an unused space waiting to be transformed?

Designing a scheme needs a starting point whether that’s a paint colour, fabric or wallpaper. Ours is always detailed conversations with our client and we then gather together samples or moodboards. We are loving the direction that this design is taking 💗

Well it’s amazing how this heat gives a different perspective on a bedroom! what shapes you notice lying on the floor and looking up as you feel a bit overwhelmed with the heat !🤣
I love this room and the cornicing which we had replaced in the house is beautiful. 💚The colour and wardrobe shapes look pretty good from down here too!!
We designed these to disappear into the recess with no gaps above. Plastering was done across the wardrobe frame design and then cornicing added. Seamless👌
The wall colour is called pleat and is by Little Green.It has an incredible calm vibrancy and makes the room so uplifting.
Well I love this architectural angle!! A bit outside the box from the norm. I think I better have another glass of water!! Or is that wine😊🤣
Happy Friday everyone.

From mood board post house purchase to final inspirational installation, bringing the project to life. Thank you so much George and Charlotte, it was a pleasure working with you For full story see link in bio kentmuddystilettos.co.uk Introducing Your Interiors Fairy Godmother.

Just thought I would post a photo of my view from my studio today. 💚Love so many bits of our urban space and to think that 3 years ago it was a total building site with no garden at all.!
My lovely Buddha looks over me and the sound of tricking water is so lovely with the doors open💚💚
This is my second love. Gardening. 🌈
When I am not found designing interiors, I can often be found ipside down in my garden planting or weeding.
So therapeutic and nourishing for the soul.

What a fabulous day we had at The Hampton Court palace garden festival🌸🌸🌸🌸
It was so hot at 28degrees but loved every minute. Hubby enjoyed it all too and was a great atmosphere with music in the sunshine along with the most beautiful flowers and gardens😘
My favourite garden was definitely The Macmillan Legacy Garden by .
Just going for a little dig outside now to plant up a bag of plants we brought back!!!😊😊😊



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A great day and so important to stay totally in the loop with all our suppliers and their products. 💚
A day catching up with everyone .
We popped in here to one of our suppliers . Fabulous new collections and furniture. 👌👌
We pride ourselves on our long-standing relationships with all the fabric houses and suppliers. Always means we can be confident when we specify for our clients and gives us such a wide spectrum of products✅✅✅✅✅

Thank you Muddy for this lovely article👌
Check us out in the Muddy Stilettos article in yesterdays newsletter. Link in bio. 🌸🌸
Scroll down to HOME and get a feel of how we can work with you.
A look into the whole process with original moodboards , before shots and the finished product.💚
A huge thank you to Charlotte and George for letting have a look around their beautiful property🙏🙏
It was such a lovely project.😊
After shots by heather

Last few days in one of my favourite places, Majorca. Soaking up the sunshine and this beautiful place. Extended coffee time and watching the world go by.😊😊

A bed should always be the centre of the room in a bedroom and we just love these bespoke cushions we have just done for one of our clients to finish off a bedroom design.
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So calming in this beautiful combination of fabrics .
Just makes you want to snuggle down.
Happy Friday everyone. Please can we have some more sun for the weekend🙏

I never fail to get excited when we open the boxes of Pom Pom wool collections to start a bespoke rug design for one of our clients😊
Ooh so gorgeous 🌈
We are often asked about designing rugs that are so unique
Perfect colours👌
Perfect pattern and design for your space in the perfect size.
Yesterday afternoon we were doing just that with a client and we are very excited about seeing it finally in place in a few months time.
If you would like unique rug designing as part of our interior design service, come and talk to us about the possibilities…..