Step inside a colourful seaside house, designed by Elizabeth Stanhope

Take a trip to Aldeburgh, a seaside town in Suffolk, England, where interior designer Elizabeth Stanhope has designed a joyfully colourful home for her client and her ever-expanding family. There was one key consideration when designing the home; it had to be fit for multi-generation use. Now grandparents, the client and her husband wanted the home to be multi-functional and welcoming, the perfect environment for hosting their adult children, grandchildren, as well as friends. To do this, Elizabeth used colour as a tool for creating a home that felt inviting, calm where needed, and cosy. Decorated top-to-toe in Lick, Elizabeth took inspiration from Aldeburgh's colourful beachfront houses for the home's colour palette.

The first room you enter into is the open plan kitchen and dining room, painted in White 03 and Blue 04 (the two most used colours in the home). A busy space used for entertaining, the client wanted the overall feeling to be calm and inviting. Elizabeth looked to our whites and chose White 03, a creamy white with warm yellow undertones. As the front of the house is also east-facing, it can get quite a grey, cool light in the winter months, so White 03 was the perfect neutral to balance out the cooler light.