Love coming home, every single day.
You’ve found your forever home, but creating a space that balances personality with real-life functionality takes time you simply don’t have.
When your home reflects who you are, coming through the door feels instantly uplifting.
With thoughtful choices in colour, pattern, and texture, we take the stress out of the design process and give you clear, aligned guidance from start to finish.
A play on pattern here or a rich splash of colour there can transform an underloved room into a space you’re proud of and love coming home to, every single day.
As a creative interior design studio, it’s our passion to help you:
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Find what you love.
Explore colour, pattern and texture, with a little encouragement to try something you might never have considered.
Feel confident in your choices.
See how colours, furniture and finishing touches work together before making changes to your home.
Enjoy coming home.
A cosy, characterful space that you can't wait to spend time in.
“I know what I like when I see it.”
You don’t need to have your design ideas worked out or know which colours you like before we talk. In fact, that’s often a part of the process that our clients enjoy exploring the most!
Our work is rooted in a deep understanding of colour psychology, space, and how a home should truly support the people living in it.
Here’s how we uncover the right colours & aesthetic for you
Before your paid design consultation, we’ll ask you (and any other decision makers) to complete our colour personality quiz. What this does is give us a great starting point for choosing colours, samples, swatches, and ideas that match your taste based on the quiz results.
From there, you can tell us what you love, what you’re unsure about, and what you’d like to try.
How can we help with your home?
Whether you need a little direction or you’re ready to bring several rooms together to create a home that uplifts you every time you walk in – we've got a service that fits the bill.
Together, we’ll spend time exploring your home’s possibilities. We’ll talk through your colour personality, look at samples together, and discuss how you’d like your rooms to look, feel and work. From this, you’ll have ideas you can take forward yourself, or continue exploring with Ben the Hoose through our residential interior design service
Whether it’s one room or an entire home, we bring colour, pattern, texture and practical layouts together around the way you live. Drawings, realistic visuals and a detailed design pack help you picture the result and give your builders, decorators and other trades the information they need to bring everything to life.
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Would you love our help but live further afield? If you live outside of Cumbria, Lancashire or North Yorkshire, our virtual interior design service offers a way to work with us remotely. Tell us about your home and what you have in mind, and we’ll discuss whether online interior design is right for your project.
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A space can feel calm and welcoming and still have plenty of personality. We bring our love of colour, pattern, and texture to commercial interiors, starting with how you want people to feel when they walk through the door.
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Meet our founder & interior designer, Abigail Fleming
“Before Ben the Hoose, I spent 15 years as a fashion designer in London after studying at Central Saint Martins. I loved playing around with patterns, textures and colours as part of my everyday work, and it’s still what I love doing today, just for a home rather than a wardrobe.”
The story behind Ben the Hoose
Ben the Hoose is an old Scots phrase meaning “through the house” or “to the best room in the house”. For founder Abigail, the name is personal:
“For me, Ben the Hoose is about creating the room you naturally want to head towards; the room where you gather, relax, laugh, make memories and feel most at home.”
“It also perfectly captures my approach to interior design. I believe your home should be colourful, characterful and personal, designed around the way you live and what makes you feel good.”
So, while Ben the Hoose may have its roots in an old Scots saying, its meaning is very much about the homes we create today; beautiful, happy spaces you're proud to welcome people into.
Our portfolio: have a look around
Here are a few of the homes we’ve worked on.
Perhaps now feels like the right time to work with an interior designer because…
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You’ve moved into a house you love, but you haven’t quite made it yours yet.
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The children are growing up, and you’re ready for a more grown-up space to enjoy too.
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You’re looking ahead to retirement and want a lovely haven to come back to between adventures.
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Life’s busy, and pulling all the colours, furniture and finishing touches together feels like a big job that you just don’t have time for.
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You know what you like when you see it but can’t quite picture how it would work in your own rooms.
From our first chat to that lovely feeling of coming home
1. Let's have a chat.
Book a free 30-minute call with Abigail to talk about your home, ask your questions and see whether we are a good fit to work together.
2. Explore what you love.
At your paid design consultation, we’ll talk through your colour personality, look at samples together and explore the possibilities for your rooms.
3. See the possibilities.
During the design stage, drawings, realistic visuals and samples help you picture your finished rooms. We’ll talk through what you love and anything you’re not quite sure about.
4. Bring it all home.
Your builder and decorator receive the details to bring the design to life, with us on hand for questions. Purchasing and final styling are also available to help bring everything together.
"We used Ben the Hoose Interiors as we were struggling to know where to start with decorating our living room. We had so many ideas but felt completely lost and weren't sure what we really wanted.
Abigail provided such a personal experience, taking the time to listen to our preferences and guide us through the process step by step before putting together a range of beautiful designs. The project really came together, and we were able to choose a design that felt exactly like the living space we had always wanted — we just didn't know how to make it happen ourselves.
The Houzz system was incredibly easy to use. Abigail added all the options to the platform, allowing us to pick and choose as we went, while always keeping our budget in mind.
We are extremely happy with the service we received and absolutely love our new living room. It feels so cosy, personal and completely us. We would highly recommend Ben the Hoose Interiors to anyone looking for help bringing their vision to life."
- Adel Rhodes
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Interior Design Awards & Published Features
We're very proud to have achieved the “best of Houzz service” award for the past 3 years running (2024–2026), alongside a My Local Award in 2026. This is awarded to interior designers who continuously produce well received projects that get amazing feedback from clients.
We’ve also had features published in Coat Paints, Tinyfound and Lancashire Life.
Come home to somewhere you love
Perhaps it’s a little cottage you want to make cosy, a family home ready for a more grown-up feel, or a room you’ve never quite known what to do with. We’d love to hear about it.
Our interior design studio is based in Kendal, working across Cumbria, the Lake District, Lancashire and North Yorkshire.
Start with a free 30-minute chat with Abigail. Tell us what’s on your mind, ask your questions, and we’ll talk through the possibilities together.
Ben the Hoose is proud to support Great North Air Ambulance Service