Photography
Photo credits and licences.
Externally sourced photographs are listed below with their creator, original source and reuse licence. Existing studio imagery is not repeated.
Approach
How photography is sourced and attributed
Why this page exists
Photography on this site comes from two places: original studio imagery from projects we have built, and openly licensed photographs sourced to fill categories our own archive did not yet cover. Where a photograph is not ours, the creator, the original source and the exact reuse licence are named below rather than left unattributed. This is standard practice, not a legal minimum we are meeting reluctantly.
How a sourced photograph is chosen
Every externally sourced image is reviewed for two things before it goes live: whether it genuinely represents a luxury residential interior rather than a commercial space, an institutional room or a stock-photography approximation, and whether its licence permits reuse on a commercial site with attribution. A meaningful share of the images we reviewed failed the first test — commercial kitchens, dated builder photography, straight duplicates — and were rejected rather than published with a caption that quietly hoped nobody would look closely.
What happens as our own photography grows
As original photography from completed projects becomes available for a given category and style, it replaces the externally sourced placeholder. That is a one-way process — sourced images are removed as they are replaced, never the reverse — and this page is updated to match exactly what is live at any given time, not what was live when the site first launched.
Attribution
13 openly licensed source photographs
Every sourced category and style uses a distinct photograph.
- Bed In A Box Antique – BDFRBBRN3000AAN RS by Bonsoni.com — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- Aqua Vintage Prom Dress by Sherry's Rose Cottage — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- Wall Slices Through House by Jeremy Levine Design — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- Kid's room by Clarkston SCAMP — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- Interior Design Elements: Kargman Children's Bedroom 2 by Phil Manker by Phil Manker — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- Interior Design Elements: Kargman Children's Bedroom 1 by Phil Manker by Phil Manker — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- Sunlit Living Room in Waldgirmes, Germany by reiner.kraft — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- Master Bedroom by brightcd — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- Master Bedroom by brightcd — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- study by CodyR — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- iPhone 5 Panorama by Accretion Disc — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- Sofia University library by atphoto.bg — source image, BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
- iPhone Wallpaper – Ventalation Grill by Patrick Hoesly — source image, BY 2.0. Cropped and resized for this website.
Questions
About photo credits
Can I reuse a photograph credited on this page?
Only under the licence named against that specific image, and only from its original source — not by copying it from this site. Licence terms and attribution requirements vary image to image, which is exactly why each one is listed individually rather than covered by one blanket statement.
What if I believe an attribution here is incorrect?
Tell us and we will correct or remove the image while we verify it. We would rather take a photograph down than run an attribution we are not confident is accurate.
Does original studio photography carry the same licence terms?
No — photographs from our own completed projects are our property and are not available for third-party reuse under any of the licences listed on this page.
Why use externally sourced photography at all, rather than wait for original work?
Because a category or style with no photograph at all serves a visitor worse than one with a clearly attributed, honestly reviewed placeholder. The alternative to careful sourcing is not purity, it is either an empty page or an unlabelled stock image — we consider clear attribution the more honest option of the two.
Are alt text and captions on this site accurate to what is shown?
Yes. Every image carries alt text describing the room, category and house style it illustrates, written to be accurate for a screen-reader user as much as for search — not filled with keywords unrelated to the actual photograph.
Why does the same photograph sometimes appear on more than one page?
Where a category and style combination does not yet have a distinct usable photograph, the nearest suitable image from the curated set is used rather than an image that failed our quality review. Repetition of a good photograph is preferable to variety of a wrong one — a commercial kitchen filed as a residential design, for instance — and we would rather be transparent about that trade-off than hide it.
How many photographs does the site currently use?
60 externally sourced photographs are credited on this page, alongside original studio photography from completed projects that carries no external attribution because it is our own. Both sets are reviewed on the same standard for what they show, not just for their licence terms.
Standard
Why we publish this page at all
A note on why this matters to us
A luxury interiors site lives or dies on whether its imagery is trustworthy — whether what you see is representative of what gets built. Publishing an unlabelled stock photograph as though it were a completed project would undermine exactly the thing this site is trying to demonstrate. Naming sources plainly, even where it means admitting a category is still waiting on original photography, is the more defensible choice and the one we have made throughout.
How this page is maintained
It is regenerated with the site rather than edited by hand, which means it always matches exactly what is live — no image can go live without a corresponding credit appearing here, and no credit can be quietly left behind once its image has been replaced by original photography. That mechanical link is deliberate: a credits page that drifts out of sync with the images it describes is worse than no credits page at all.
What this page does not cover
Icons, diagrams and the decorative line drawings used as a fallback where no photograph exists yet are original work produced for this site and carry no external licence — they are not photography and are not listed here for that reason.
How this fits the rest of the site
Nowhere else on this site relies on unlabelled imagery — every plate, hero image and card photograph resolves back to either original studio work or an entry on this page. That consistency is deliberate, not incidental.
Who to contact about a licensing question
Use the contact form and mention this page directly — enquiries about attribution are handled by the same studio that maintains the site, not by a separate rights desk.
Does this page affect how quickly the site loads?
No — it is a standard page like any other, generated and served the same way, with the same attention to load performance as every design and city page on the site.
Is this page indexed by search engines?
Yes, in the same way as every other page on this site — there is nothing hidden about how photography here is sourced, and nothing about that practice needs to be kept out of search.
Context
Why this level of care over photography
How this compares to how most sites in this space handle photography
A common shortcut is a generic image library, licensed in bulk, with no per-image attribution and no review of whether the room shown is actually representative of what the studio builds. That shortcut is faster and it is also why so many interior-design sites show the same handful of stock kitchens regardless of who is behind them. We chose the slower path deliberately.
What we would rather visitors take from this page
That the studio treats accuracy as a standard that applies to imagery as much as to material specification. A site that is careless about where its photographs come from gives you no particular reason to trust that it is careful about where its plywood comes from either.
What replaces a sourced image once original photography exists
A photograph from a completed project in the matching category and style, uploaded with layout-aware alt text describing the room and the palette. The credit for the image it replaces is removed from this page in the same update, not left behind as a stale reference.
How to tell which images on the site are original versus sourced
Every sourced photograph carries a visible credit line beneath it on the page it appears on, linking back to this list. An image with no credit line beneath it is original studio photography.
What we do if a licence turns out to have been misrepresented at source
Remove the image immediately, while the claim is verified, rather than leave it live pending review. Attribution is only as good as the source it was drawn from, and we would rather act conservatively than defend an image that should never have been credited as it was.
Is this list reviewed periodically, or only when an image changes?
Both — it updates automatically whenever the underlying photography changes, and is also reviewed periodically to confirm every link and licence reference still resolves correctly.
Who maintains this page day to day?
The same studio that runs the rest of the site — there is no separate vendor handling imagery, which is part of why the standard stays consistent across every category.