Recognition
Chosen by visitors
Larkrise won the visitor-voted Favourite Narrowboat in Show award at Crick in 2021.
Oakums build no. 05
Larkrise
The Oakums narrowboat voted Favourite Narrowboat in Show by visitors to Crick Boat Show in 2021.
The visual story
An award-winning interior with character in every view.
Larkrise was voted Favourite Narrowboat in Show by visitors to Crick Boat Show in 2021. The photographs show why it made an impression: confident materials, carefully planned living spaces and a complete interior identity that feels individual from the first view.
The edited gallery retains the warmth of the original timber while correcting the heavy colour cast. Light, fitted furniture and decorative choices can now be read more clearly, allowing the craftsmanship and proportions of the boat to lead the story.
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.
Character
A memorable whole
Materials, colour and details work together rather than competing for attention.
Craft
Made to be examined
The gallery rewards a closer look at joinery, storage and finishing.
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 Larkrise?
Tell Oakums which ideas caught your attention and how you would want your own boat to work differently.