{"id":10993,"date":"2025-12-11T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/studio-ben-allen-revamps-kent-farmhouse-with-playful-colour-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:51:36","slug":"studio-ben-allen-revamps-kent-farmhouse-with-playful-colour-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/studio-ben-allen-revamps-kent-farmhouse-with-playful-colour-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Ben Allen revamps Kent farmhouse with playful colour scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"
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London practice Studio Ben Allen<\/a> has completed its renovation<\/a> of A Place in the Country, a former farmhouse<\/a> in rural Kent<\/a>, introducing a playful colour scheme and an oak-lined library.<\/span><\/p>\n

Studio Ben Allen<\/a> reconfigured the home to clarify a series of alterations made over time, improving circulation and creating distinct spaces for entertaining, reading, work and exercise.<\/p>\n

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Studio Ben Allen has renovated a farmhouse in rural Kent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An entrance hall leads through to a new library<\/a> at the heart of the home, characterised by its curved oak-lined walls.<\/p>\n

The library doubles as a space for entertaining, with a cocktail cabinet concealed within the blue-stained timber walls.<\/p>\n

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A library with curved oak-lined walls is at the heart of the home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We wanted a full-height timber-lined library, but thought it would create interest to carve out niches for sitting and reading,” Studio Ben Allen founder Ben Allen told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“This developed into an obround or pill form, and the creation of niches around it became a subtractive design exercise \u2013 metaphorically carving the niches out of the solid corners,” Allen described.<\/p>\n

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A bright colour scheme unifies the various spaces<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To the west side of A Place in the Country, the library opens onto the original kitchen and dining space, where a new doorway has been added to provide additional garden access.<\/p>\n

Existing kitchen cabinets, painted in a deep blue hue, have been finished with concrete<\/a> countertops, contrasting with an oversized bright yellow extraction hood above the cooker.<\/p>\n