Colville Houses

The reception room faces the street through a bay with folding shutters, and the sun comes across bare white-washed boards to a tapestry frame strung with black fibre at the far end. This is the home and workroom of the tapestry artist Teresa Hastings, who has four bedrooms over three storeys of a pink stucco house on Colville Houses and has used the open plan for both.

She trained as a weaver at the Central School of Art and was taken on from her degree show by the American textile designer Jack Lenor Larsen; after a trip to India in 2016 she also made a studio in the Himalayas, where she dyes wool with madder, myrobalan and rusting iron. Baskets of black yarn sit on the floor by the frame, pans hang in rows above the range in the kitchen, and the study at the back, under painted joists, is where the materials pile up.

Downstairs the principal bedroom is white linen and two paper stars, with a tinned copper bath set against a panel of gold silk under perspex. The garden is pebbles, hosta and a maple, with a potting sink on the balcony above it.