Rosie Mennem is a talented artist with considerable experience. Her career began selling hand painted furniture to the General Trading Company in Sloane Square. This led to varied commissions, including painting murals in a palace in Prague and painting shoes for Jimmy Choo at the Oscars. Her commissions also include wallpaper and fabric design for high-end brand Zoffany. We worked closely with Rosie on our luxury lodge and cottage interior design.

We asked Rosie a few questions about her inspiration behind each project, and how she curated the collection…

About Rosie & her cottage interior design

A talented designer, Rosie has been featured in Vogue’s ‘Most Stylish Interiors’ directory in the past. Her skills include hand-painted furniture and canvasses which create a luxurious and stylish feel. Her skills were perfect for designing the gorgeous cottage interior design within Holiday at Home’s collection of luxury cottages and lodges across North Yorkshire. Her outstanding painting skills enhanced the furnishings to create many one-off pieces in the properties.

The design is unique to each of the luxury lodges at Brompton Lakes, with a different theme for each of the 66 bedrooms across the 21 lodges. Rosie also designed the three cosy holiday cottages at Holly House Farm and the stylish 5 bedroom Georgian townhouse 30 Frenchgate. These properties made up the first twenty-five in the Holiday at Home collection.

cottage interior design

Individual design for every room

‘The brief for Brompton Lakes was to create luxury holiday accommodation, creating an individual look for each lodge with a more urban style. The idea was to create more of a retreat, so I wanted to create inspirational interiors but also those that you could totally relax in. I try to source a lot of furnishings locally and there are a few antiques which are totally unique. I also hand painted much of the furniture and painted canvasses especially for the rooms which does create the special bespoke look of Brompton Lakes.’

Brompton Lakes
Yorkshire holiday cottages

Designing a derelict building

Holly House Farm was derelict when purchased so we had to start from the drawing board. We wanted the outside to keep its wonderful North Yorkshire stone farm house character but for the interiors to be more contemporary, that people could enjoy in luxury. My favourite piece is the wallpaper in Georgia, which is my own design for Zoffany, which started off as a canvas in my studio!’

Holly House Farm
cottages in richmond yorkshire

Modern family living

‘30 Frenchgate is very different from my other projects, being in the centre of Richmond. We wanted our guests to enjoy the benefits of being able to walk into the centre of this historic town but to return to an elegant town house which offers very spacious living and a tranquil garden. My main focus was to keep the essence of a Georgian building but with more contemporary touches for modern family living’.

30 Frenchgate