10-Year-Old Helps Design Bedfordshire Show Home

A 10-year-old girl was the VIP guest invited to unveil a new show home near Bedford where she’d created the design for one of the bedrooms.

Rose Wright – who has ataxia-telangiectasia, which affects the nervous system and immune system as well as other parts of the body – designed an underwater theme for the new four-bedroom ‘Camellia’ show home at Ashberry Homes’ New Cardington Gate development, off Megginson Way.

Rose cut the ribbon to the show home at a special preview opening, the day before the public opening on Saturday, and was able to see how her ideas had been brought to life.

The project came about after the housebuilder asked Keech Hospice Care if any of its patients might like to be involved in creating a bedroom design – and they nominated Rose to take part. The charity provides free, specialist care for children from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes, and adults in Luton and south Bedfordshire, who have life-limiting and terminal illnesses.

Kate Gooden, fundraiser at Keech Hospice Care, said: “Rose designed her underwater bedroom around the fact that when she visits the hospice, her favourite place is the hydrotherapy pool. She really wanted to use this theme throughout which she detailed in her original design, and which Ashberry Homes has brilliantly brought to life within the show home bedroom.”

New Cardington Gate is situated on the former RAF Cardington site and launched in January this year. The housebuilder has already sold all the homes from the initial release, with further two-, three- and four-bedroom homes due to be released for sale shortly.

The ‘Camellia’ show home, which features Rose’s underwater theme children’s bedroom, also has an open-plan kitchen, family and dining room, with French doors to the rear garden and a separate living room and study and an en suite master bedroom.

Aly Morehen, sales manager for Ashberry Homes, said: “We aim to support the local communities in the areas where we build and know the amazing work Keech Hospice Care does for so many adults and children, so we were very keen to work with them.

“Rose came forward with her idea of an underwater themed bedroom when we approached the hospice and we loved it. She had a lot of really creative ideas and gave a really detailed design of what her dream bedroom would be – right down to the mermaid bed, which we have featured in the show home.

“The design is really fun and is exactly what you would want to have as a child. We are really pleased to have been able to bring this creation to life and are very grateful to Rose, her family and the hospice for working with us and helping us to open our show home.”

Kate added: “It has been really great to work with the housebuilder and we hope we can continue working together in the future.”

Find out more about New Cardington Gate at www.ashberryhomes.co.uk.

For more information about Keech Hospice Care here.

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