Camille Muhtar grew up in California, but some of her fondest memories are of Bridgehouse, her family’s Tudor cottage in the English countryside. Named for the village bridge beside it, the cottage was where she first fell for the quiet character of English houses.

 

Muhtar drew on those memories when her studio took on a Tudor-style house in Denver’s historic Hilltop neighbourhood. “The project is essentially a reset,” says Muhtar, principal of Bridgehouse Studio. The team kept the structure and chose materials, colours and furnishings to suit the family’s daily life.

 

A CURVE REPEATED

 

On her first visit, lead designer Liv Blumberg noticed a curved cupboard in the entrance hall that was “unlike anything else in the house”. The team echoed its curve in the arched front door, the openings clad in stained oak and the joinery framing the windows beside the fireplace.

 

Blumberg drew on traditional European architecture to give the rooms a sense of age. Hand-painted wallpaper panels have the look of plaster, while a row of square cut-outs gives the family room mantelpiece and the Leblon quartzite washstand a crenellated edge. Dark beams flank the living room hearth. The room’s diamond-paned leaded glass reappears in the sitting room and main bathroom.