Apartment in South Kensington

A rented apartment, its living room with ugly windows, low ceiling and beige carpet. Hell. I covered one window (looking straight at a dreary block of flats opposite) with a transparency of my own photo of Bernini's St Teresa in Ecstasy which made a nicely baroque background to the dining area. On the walls, I painted a strong, random geometric design in warm earth colours to make the most of the beige carpet. In the master bedroom, I injected colour and pattern with a couple of screens covered in Cole & Son's Hicks Grande wallpaper and an elaborate draped bed to match, with hangings from a big, white hexagon that I carved. The walnut chest of drawers, bought online, had nasty aluminium pulls which I transformed into white coral branches using epoxy clay.