A Life in Design

The tented room

with VEERE GRENNEY — Esteemed New Zealand-born UK-based decorator

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Veere welcomes you to ‘the tented room’, where he has lined the room in swathes of fabric to create a hugely effective tent effect, which has a really enticing feel.

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The Tented Room

I have lined my 'snoring room' in swathes of fabric to create a hugely effective tent effect, which has a really enticing feel.

  • Striped fabric is the common choice for tented rooms, and they have an extraordinary atmosphere.
  • Tented rooms make for great children's rooms, guest bedrooms or dressing rooms. Mine is a dressing room with a single bed in it. I nickname it 'the snoring room' as it's where snoring guests are banished.
  • It is done by installing a curtain rail around the edge of the room and hanging fabric from this. The heading of the curtain is made neater with a pelmet, and mine is castellated. The fabric is then drawn together on the ceiling and perhaps accented with rope to help it feel like a tent.
  • Behind the curtains is where all my wardrobes and drawers are.

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Veere Grenney

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Veere Grenney

Esteemed New Zealand-born UK-based decorator

For more than three decades, Veere Grenney has shaped the landscape of international interior design with an eye for timeless elegance and a deep respect for tradition. Having begun his career under Mary Fox Linton, and later serving as a director at Colefax and Fowler, Veere went on to establish his own company in central London in 1996, one that continues to define the art of classic contemporary living.

His work has been consistently recognised at the very highest level with Veere holding a place in House and Garden’s Directory of 100 Leading Interior Designers for the past seven years, alongside being named one of Veranda’s ‘Magic Makers’ in 2013, and additionally is a proud member of Architectural Digests prestigious ‘Top 100’.

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