Drawing room at Red House with a large painted built-in settle and cupboard and a brick fireplace — Ethan Doyle White / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0 (license). View source

Arts & Crafts / Craftsman · Wall Paneling & Wainscoting

Drawing Room at Red House, Bexleyheath (William Morris and Philip Webb)

The drawing room of Red House in Bexleyheath, the home Philip Webb designed for William Morris in 1859–60, with its painted built-in settle and cupboard and open timber details.

Red House is often called the birthplace of the Arts and Crafts movement. Morris and his friends decorated it themselves, and the drawing room's centerpiece is a massive settle with a cupboard and gallery above, painted with decoration in the medieval spirit Morris loved. It shows the movement's core ideas in one room: furniture built into the architecture, honest construction, and decoration made by hand. A painted built-in settle or window seat with a cupboard above is still one of the most characterful additions to a living room or reading nook.

Have this made · Signature tier

Built-in settle and upper cupboard in paint-grade poplar or oak, with flat panels left for decorative painting; Signature tier.

A custom version typically runs $32–$65 per sq ft of wall, shipped as a kit.

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