Pattern
A strong personal signature
Abstract monochrome upholstery gives the social spaces texture and identity.
Oakums build no. 19
Angel
A bespoke Oakums commission showing contrasting upholstery, oak joinery and traditional signwriting.
The visual story
Graphic upholstery against beautifully warm joinery.
Angel brings an energetic monochrome-patterned fabric into a rich oak interior. The bold seating makes the dinette immediately memorable, while simple timber geometry and a pale ceiling keep the room composed rather than busy.
Black fixtures, radiators and switches add a contemporary edge. Elsewhere, a floral Roman blind, red cabinetry glimpsed through the galley and a compact washroom introduce further character. It is an individual interior held together by consistent oak joinery and careful detailing.
Design in detail
An individual boat, held together by one clear idea.
The photographs show how colour, light, fitted joinery and practical decisions work together. The choices belong to this commission; the same design discipline can be taken in a completely different direction for your own Oakums.
What the photographs reveal
Character with purpose.
A beautiful boat still needs to support cooking, relaxing, storage, movement and life on the water.
Joinery
Oak as the constant
Warm timber frames each room and allows several bolder decorative choices to sit together.
Contrast
Modern dark accents
Black taps, switches and radiators punctuate the softer surfaces with clean definition.
Selected photographs
A considered record of the build.
Each page uses up to ten genuinely different photographs, selected to reveal the rooms, materials and craftsmanship without repeating the same view. Only facts confirmed by Oakums are included.
A starting point for your own brief
Take the inspiration, not the template.
Every photograph can prompt a useful conversation about proportion, materials, lighting or storage. Oakums will use those preferences to create a coherent boat around your own priorities rather than reproducing somebody else's interior.
Start your Oakums
Inspired by Angel?
Tell Oakums which ideas caught your attention and how you would want your own boat to work differently.