West London Townhouse
Complete renovation of four storey West London home for Michelle Dockery and her husband Jasper Waller-Bridge, including lower ground extension to accommodate new dining area, with reconfiguration, new finishes & FF&E throughout.
The house benefits from its own designated Boot Room off the Entrance Hall, where we selected the playful ‘Nettle’ wallpaper by Beata Heuman, mixed with strong colours but retaining a nod to it’s utilitarian function with the checkerboard floor.
The Lower Ground Floor was opened up to create open plan living with plenty of light, allowing for rich tones, anchored by pops of red throughout.
With a beautiful existing DeVOL kitchen already in situ when Michelle bought the house, we worked with what we already had, rotating the existing island 90 degrees and extending it to suit the newly extended floorplan, highlighting the addition with a copper worktop which has developed a beautiful patina over time. We also added a new pantry area with space stolen from a downstairs loo beyond, and painted it in a cheerful sunshine yellow.
“This part of the house feels like being somewhere else, like Los Angeles,” Dockery says of the garden-level kitchen and dining area. “It feels like I’m on holiday,”
Michelle Dockery for Architectural Digest
(October 2025, words by Fiona McCarthy)
Michelle’s aspiration for the Groud Floor rooms, particularly the study, was to have a certain Parisian feel, with the high ceilings, the fireplace & beautiful cornicing, so we opted for bright white washed walls and parquet flooring, interjected with more modern furniture & modular shelving units.
The Master Bedroom is Michelle’s sanctuary, a retreat from the strong use of colour elsewhere. We did manage to sneak in a subtle pop of red in the vintage light pendant, a joyful element of surprise in an otherwise serene scheme of greens, teals & ochres. The green tones are then carried through to the bathroom with a Verde Luana marble surround, and a duck egg, tongue & groove clad, separate WC.
“We travel a lot for work, so it was important to me that I had a home that felt like a luxury to walk into.” Ultimately, what she really desired, and Ainscough has helped deliver, was “to create a space that I really wanted to always come home to.”
Michelle Dockery for Architectural Digest
(October 2025, words by Fiona McCarthy)