Facilitating Interior Dreams

From the outside, Whitney Carne might appear like any other high-street fabric and paint shop. Step inside, however, and you’re met with something altogether rarer: knowledge, patience and a personal stake in every conversation. Owner-run, by Angel Whitney, and resolutely grounded in experience rather than gimmick, it is a place shaped by one woman’s lived renovation know-how and a fondness for helping others bring interiors to life.

This is no showroom of pre-packaged schemes. Here, the chalky grain of lime plaster is discussed as easily as curtain heading tape. Whether you’re upholstering a family heirloom or choosing wallpaper for a Georgian hallway, Angel offers more than materials, she offers context, clarity and advice as practical as it is perceptive. Her years spent wrangling old walls and breathing new life into old furniture lend weight to her guidance, and she’s refreshingly candid about what she doesn’t sell or doesn’t stock.

As Penzance’s exclusive stockist for both Earthborn and Frenchic paints, Whitney Carne provides environmentally conscious options that don’t compromise on quality or visual appeal. 

There’s a working seamstress and lampshade maker behind the soft furnishings, and the shelves hold a considered stock of fabrics and pattern books, including the Laura Ashley range, along with those from Chess, The Designer’s Guild and GP & J Baker. Angel knows which book will likely hold that elusive print, and she’ll help you find it without the hard sell. If it isn’t here, she’ll tell you where it is.

Living above the interiors boutique she owns, and actively restoring the flat herself, Angel is not passing through. She’s invested, both literally and emotionally, in each customer, each length of fabric, each coat of paint. And it shows.

Head to Penzance to experience it for yourself. You’ll leave inspired!

For more information, visit www.whitneycarne.co.uk or call 01736 351458