Longfield House | Richmond Heritage Interior Design

Longfield House is a heritage home in Richmond reimagined through layered colour, texture, and deeply personal design. Created for repeat clients, the brief focused on light and brightness without beige, balancing soft, floaty window furnishings with treasured antique and vintage pieces. The naturally dark snug is boldly embraced in Benjamin Moore’s Bermuda Turquoise, paired with subtle spatial upgrades including a reconfigured high-ceiling laundry with bespoke storage.

Bold Heritage Interior Design, Richmond

Longfield House is a heritage home tucked away in a quiet Richmond street, layered with history, character, and the stories of its owners. Amanda and Gary first engaged Brinnie T Design for their Phillip Island apartment, and after falling in love with the outcome, invited me to “let loose” in their primary residence — a project grounded not in trends, but in how Amanda wanted to feel in her home.

The brief began with a single magazine image and a clear intention: light and bright, but never beige. The challenge was to create freshness and softness while honouring treasured antique and vintage furniture, along with meaningful collections gathered through years of travel. Rather than stripping the home back, the design embraces layering — colour, texture, and history working together to create a space that feels curated, personal, and deeply lived-in.

Soft, floaty window furnishings introduce movement and light, balancing the home’s traditional bones with a sense of ease. These layers provide visual softness while allowing antique pieces and collected objects to take centre stage, creating rooms that feel relaxed rather than precious.

At the heart of the home sits the snug — always destined to be dark due to its location. Instead of fighting this, we leaned into it wholeheartedly. The room was drenched in Benjamin Moore’s Bermuda Turquoise, a bold, enveloping choice that transforms the snug into a cocooning retreat. This rich tone was then carried through into the adjoining office, where custom bookcase joinery subtly references the same colour, creating continuity and rhythm across the spaces.

Functionality was also quietly elevated. A previously tiny laundry with unexpectedly high ceilings offered untapped potential. By reimagining the layout and designing custom joinery that takes full advantage of the vertical volume, we created a highly functional laundry with generous new storage — a practical upgrade that feels intentional rather than utilitarian.

Longfield House is a study in balance: heritage and freshness, lightness and depth, old and new. It’s a home shaped around emotion as much as function — proof that thoughtful interior design doesn’t erase history, it gives it room to breathe.

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