Bailey&Co is based in Frampton Cotterell, on the edge of Bristol and right in the middle of the South Gloucestershire countryside. That position shapes the work in a genuine way. Some projects come from Bristol and Bath, where clients want a designer who understands city houses and their particular constraints. Just as many come from the market towns and villages closer to home, often through a recommendation from someone whose house I've already worked on. Below is a proper introduction to each, and how each location shapes the project.

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Bristol, Bath & the Cotswolds

Full-home and single-room interior design across Bristol's period terraces and villas, Bath's Georgian townhouses, and the farmhouses and cottages of the wider Cotswolds. Read more on the dedicated Bristol page, with Bath and Cotswolds pages to follow.

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Thornbury

Thornbury still has a proper working high street, with Thornbury Castle at one end of it and a weekly market that draws people in from well beyond the town itself. Most enquiries here come from two directions: families who've moved out from Bristol or Bath for more space and a real town centre, and owners of the Georgian and Victorian townhouses closer in, where the work is usually about respecting a building's proportions and character rather than fighting them. Either way, it's rarely about starting from nothing. It's about looking properly at what's there and making changes that feel like they belong.

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Almondsbury

Almondsbury sits close enough to the M4 and M5 interchange to be genuinely convenient, but it's still built around a proper conservation area, with stone cottages and a church older than most of the towns nearby. Recent work here for repeat clients includes a snug renovation in a property known locally as 'The Old Hospital'. It's the kind of project that sums up a lot of Almondsbury enquiries, where an older or larger house has real potential that simply hasn't been drawn out yet. See the full project in the portfolio.

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Badminton

Badminton is a small village with an outsized reputation, shaped almost entirely by the Badminton Estate and the horse trials held there each year. Away from the estate itself, it's quiet and rural: stone cottages, farmhouses and equestrian properties, and a community that values privacy as much as good taste. Clients here tend to want something that will still feel right in ten years, warm and characterful rather than trend-led, built around how the house is actually lived in rather than how it photographs.

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Wotton-under-Edge

One of the Cotswold wool towns where the history still does a lot of the work: honey-coloured stone buildings, a proper independent high street, and the escarpment and Cotswold Way rising right behind it. Its period stone properties, many listed or in the conservation area, come with real charm and real complications in roughly equal measure, original features worth protecting alongside layouts that were never designed around a modern kitchen. The aim is always a home that feels collected rather than decorated, built up around how you live rather than assembled to look good in a photograph.

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Hawkesbury Upton

A small village on the Cotswold Way, with the Somerset Monument on the hill above it, and the kind of place where a good recommendation still travels by word of mouth faster than any advert could. Homes here are mostly period cottages and farmhouses, and the work tends to be about keeping what gives a house its character while quietly sorting out what doesn't work, rather than over-modernising something that was never meant to look brand new. Being based just down the road in Frampton Cotterell, this is genuinely local work, not a service area added on a map.

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Get in touch

Wherever you are in this part of the world, from a Bristol terrace to a farmhouse near Hawkesbury Upton, the starting point is the same conversation. Book a Home Consultation or get in touch to talk through your home.