Colour
A memorable focal point
Violet and blue-green upholstery create a saloon with unmistakable personality.
Oakums build no. 21
Miss Vida
A confident interior combining warm timber, patterned fabrics and a bold purple saloon.
The visual story
Colour used with complete confidence.
Miss Vida proves that a narrowboat interior does not have to retreat into neutrals. Saturated violet seating becomes the heart of the saloon, balanced by blue-green dining upholstery, warm oak and pale wall panels. The result is joyful, individual and still visually coherent.
A dramatic glass pendant, black stove and framed artwork add darker notes that stop the brighter fabrics feeling lightweight. Integrated media cabinetry and lighting keep the practical parts of the room ordered, allowing the furniture and colour to take centre stage.
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.
Balance
Warmth around the colour
Oak framing and pale wall panels steady the palette and maintain a comfortable residential feel.
Atmosphere
Layered for evening
Feature lighting, artwork and the stove give the room depth after daylight fades.
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.
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Inspired by Miss Vida?
Tell Oakums which ideas caught your attention and how you would want your own boat to work differently.