A LIFE LESS ORDINARY

Do you remember when everyone decided to swathe their homes in shades of grey? It seemed you couldn’t set foot inside a house without spying a wall coated in Farrow & Ball’s Elephant’s Breath or a sofa groaning beneath a cloud of silvery cushions.

That’s what this apartment was like when Lorna Collins and Margot Paton, design directors at Glasgow-based interior design studio Chelsea Mclaine, first went to view it. “Everything was grey: the woodwork, the furniture, the surfaces,” laughs Collins, who led on the project. “You got the sense that it had been painted to sell.”

Happily, Chelsea Mclaine