Helen Green Design’s Barbados project, The Sandpiper Hotel, has featured in the Telegraph Property’s article “Recreate your travels at home”. The article details “What we see, experience and stuff into our suitcase on our annual summer break has an increasing influence on our homes. Holidaymakers return from a pampering stay wanting to recreate the relaxing mood of their time off, from the marble-clad bathrooms to the plates they ate from. And few of us can resist a souvenir: choose it well and it can help create an interior that impresses by subtly proclaiming your worldy outlook.

Interior designers are skilled at taking the essence of a place – local materials, crafts and colours – and reinterpreting it in modern ways. So if you have a yearning for the stylish environs you’ve just left behind, banish the post-holiday blues with these tips, showing how to bring your holiday home.

An ‘easy, breezy, fresh feeling’ is the aim for a look based around a Caribbean hideaway. The London practice Helen Green Design recently worked on the Curlew Suite, at the Sandpiper Hotel in Barbados, where the relaxed interior doesn’t compete too hard with the main attraction – an uninterrupted strip of blue sea and sky.

‘We’ve used cream linen on the upholstery, with bright accessories in azure and coral, steering well clear of anything nautical like captain’s wheels and fish.’ Instead, the design is clean and simple, with lime-washed ceilings and stone floors.

‘A seagrass rug, laid on a timber floor, would be a really good way to bring the same feeling back to Britain, as would hurricane lanterns – we used some from Ralph Lauren Home.’

Finally, limed-oak furniture ‘gives that beachy feel’”.

Read more on the Telegraph Property.