Among new launches from the Pemberton Park and Leisure Homes stable are four holiday homes, the Regent, Park Lane, Knightsbridge Platinum and Marlow

Photography by Richard Chapman

Regent

Most holiday homes have an open-plan kitchen-dining-lounge layout. The Regent, though, is different. It has a lounge completely separate from the dining kitchen, divided by a sliding wooden door. It’s a cosy room, almost square and with a coal-effect fire as its focal point.

The entire front wall is windows, reaching up into the peak of the roof. There are windows to both sides, ensuring the room is light and airy simultaneously as cosy.

The pale woodwork, teamed with a fawn, high quality carpet and cream textured wall-boarding, enhances the spacious look.

Against this subtle palette, the accent colour of bright red injects warmth, enhancing the cosiness. We love the choice of a single bright red armchair, making a bold design statement contrasting with the grey L-shaped sofa arrangement.

The red theme continues with a big, round pendant light shade in the centre of the room and in the floor-to-ceiling curtains plus four cushions; a twig-inspired design in red appears on a cream background. The whole effect is delightful, creating a lovely holiday environment.

Kitchen-dining room

The main kitchen area is L-shaped. The fridge-freezer is separate, within a wooden cabinet suite that also houses the heater unit and provides storage space, alongside the entrance door.

The dishwasher is also hidden away, within the cabinet run that provides ample storage space. The microwave is on the fore end of the kitchen, set into the upper cabinet suite at a height that people of most stature would find convenient.

Surface is plentiful, too, in three areas. And we love the mid-grey stone-effect used here, matching the grey floor tiles and contrasting with the light woodwork.

Bedrooms

The twin-bed room has a good-sized wardrobe and two drawers beneath; storage space is important in a holiday home! The shower room is opposite. Dark brown stone-effect tiles in the shower plus a bright downlighter spotlight over the mirrored cabinet provide the style points here.

The main bedroom is at the rear, a lovely cosy room with a small dressing table – and a surprise: a walk-in wardrobe-dressing room complete with a chest of four drawers plus shelves. Alongside is a toilet- washbasin room.

Park Lane

Sliding patio doors open into a huge lounging dining and kitchen area; the first impression is of a holiday home that’s spacious and gorgeously appointed.

Creams, grey-browns, combined with a soft lime green, look stunning. Three chrome pendant lights focus down over the breakfast bar; their presence emphasises the demarcation between the lounging and kitchen-eating areas.

Subtle green makes an appearance in the kitchen décor, in a sage green splashback. Fawn stone-effect surface and gloss-cream cabinets ensure this kitchen has a high-end domestic look.

It’s an unusual layout, with the oven, grill and microwave outside the main kitchen area. These appliances form the centre section of a complete surround of cabinets housing the fridge-freezer, heater unit and storage cupboards.

In the main kitchen area, a washer-drier and slim dishwasher are within the lower cabinet run; storage is generous, with 10 upper cabinets plus four lower cabinets and three wide drawers.

Bedrooms

The Park Lane’s super-luxury image continues into the bedroom and bathroom area. Both the main and twin rooms have many style and practical features and both look gorgeous.

The floor-to-ceiling window in the main bedroom invites you to chose a plot with a view to the rear of your holiday home and two more windows, on each side of the bed, add to the exceptionally light and bright atmosphere of this room.

The accent colour is chartreuse; velvet upholstery on the deep headboard – and a neat, low-back chair which fits into the dressing table between drawers on each side.

There’s a walk-in dressing-wardrobe room plus a shower room en suite. The whole effect is one of relaxing holiday luxury.

Chartreuse and grey feature in the twin bedroom, too – and here there’s also plenty of storage space, this time with a suite of wardrobes, drawers and cabinets plus a dressing table – and a chartreuse velvet-upholstered chair identical to the one in the main bedroom.

A key feature here is there is plenty of floor space; this is one holiday home second bedroom that ranks as luxurious!

And so does the family bathroom, opposite, with over-bath shower. The suite of cream gloss cabinets provides plenty of storage space – and the toilet is integrated; the tank and flush control form part of the cabinet run.

Knightsbridge Platinum

Like the Park Lane, the Knightsbridge has a full front wall of windows. And it shares with the Regent a sliding door divider to create a separate lounge. But there the similarity with other models stops, for the Knightsbridge Platinum has a character all its own.

The lounge is elegantly furnished in a slightly traditional style. Pale purple is the feature colour, for cushions, curtains (with a white floral pattern) and Roman blinds on the four side windows. The palest-cream planking-style ceiling enhances the light, airy look. We love this lounge!

Kitchen-dining area

The hub of the home is all-white, again with classic styling, here in framed cabinet doors. An island unit provides three drawers and two cabinets – and a neat rise-and-fall unit of three power points and two USB points.

There’s a wine cooler, a skylight over the main kitchen area – and an almost triangular upper window over the dining area. The list of unusual features in this lovely home goes on, into the suite of cabinets alongside the entrance door; frosted glass panels and inset spotlights are notable here – as is the quantity of storage space, with five shelves in each of these cabinets.

Bedrooms

Along the corridor which leads to the bedrooms is the unit’s best-kept secret, a small room housing a washing machine together with the heater and more storage space.

The second bedroom gives you options. In the show model we review here, there’s just one bed – a second single bed is tucked underneath it to use when needed.

A low-backed chair like the one in the Park Lane is set into the wardrobe-dressing table suite; this time the velvet is in a pale turquoise shade, with a padded bedhead to match.

The main bedroom is similar in layout to that in the Park Lane, with a walk-in dressing-wardrobe and en suite shower room. Pale turquoise is the accent shade here.

Adhering to the elegant, slightly traditional styling of the lounge and kitchen, two slightly ornate chrome lights sit on each side of the dressing table. Pure white shades allow plenty of light.

The bathroom, with an over-bath shower, is a similar layout to that in the Park Lane, but with wood as the cabinet style feature rather than gloss-cream.

Marlow

Purple and cream are the colours here; big, vertical, geometric patterns outlined in white for the curtains and cushions and a hexagonal pattern for one armchair, contrasting with the cream settees. Cream gloss cabinet doors – that’s for both the lounge dresser and the kitchen units – create a sophisticated, ultra-modern look.

Even though the kitchen, lounge and dining area are integrated, there’s a clear distinction between the lounge and the dining-kitchen function of this open-plan layout; that’s down to the positioning of the front-facing settee, backing onto the table. The effect? Two enchanting areas and a cohesive feel in the lounge.

The Marlow’s kitchen and dining area is a similar layout to that in the Regent, and shares its delightful spacious feel.

Bedrooms

The corridor from the kitchen leads first to the twin room and shower room opposite, then to the sumptuous main bedroom, spacious and with pale turquoise for the curtains, velvet-upholstered bedhead and dressing table stool.

It’s an attractively-designed bedroom, with a large, two-part wardrobe containing a chest of three drawers and a corner toilet-washbasin compartment. Two double cabinets on each side of the bed, with pretty white curved glass shaded lights between them, put on the style as well as offering good storage.