Decorating a single-storey newbuild on the site of a former cricket pavilion in the Cotswolds gave designer Kate Guinness the chance to create a winningly inviting home-from-home for a young family. The light-filled mezzanine level, which serves as a play area for the couple’s three children, looks out over this open-plan space, where unpainted plaster walls provide a warm backdrop for custom-built units with sleek ceramic worktops and Van Cronenburg handles. The walls in the open-plan kitchen, dining and sitting room were left unpainted because the owners fell for the warm pink of the plaster, which blends well with the timber cladding used on the ceiling and the wooden flooring, both sourced from a local sawmill.