We are excited to be starting another project on site later this month. It is a study in extending useful life of an old building, harnessing its grand old features and adding new design patterns in order to connect old and new spaces. Generous room heights and original tall windows fill the main space with…
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Retrofitting and redesigning Listed Buildings can be painstakingly slow. But slow projects can present opportunities for layering the ideas, trying out something entirely different and finessing of details. Opportunities arise for simple interventions like applying bold colours to surfaces or assigning dual-functions to custom-built furniture. It is a joy seeing it all come together during…
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We are so happy that our intricate retrofit and redesign in a Grade ll Listed building in Hampstead is completing in time for Christmas. The contractor has been working hard to overcome a myriad of usual glitches associated with the work on site and the client is looking forward to moving back in the new…
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When we first entered our new project in West London it looked like something straight from Wolfgang Tillmans’ world. Then the curtain moved away and the process of peeling away got going. Removing the layers of lives enacted in the building since the 70s gradually revealed both the original and the more recent building within. Preceding the…
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This beautiful view of a shared garden belongs to our new project. We are thrilled to be working on the transformation of a historic house in West London with an intriguing history. Built in mid XIX century as a residential property the house went through many changes over the years, the most structurally invasive undertaken…
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Work on site really starts coming together once the joinery installation commences. This is also the time for the ultimate choices of finishes and decisions such as right number of coats of wood stain to help achieve the desired effect – a veil of marine teal to wrap around the perimeters of all new spaces…
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The completion of work on site is nearing and the site is buzzing with activity. While some work on tiling, others are preparing finishes’ samples of grouts and wood stains. Those small decisions will have big impact on the overall feel of the space and help create the unique character we designed which will make…
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Our Grade ll Listed House project in Hampstead is reaching its final stages of work on site. Currently we are assisting the joiner with his preparations for the fabrication and installation of joinery. The now inconspicuous niche with the ladder is soon to be transformed. These colourful shop-drawings, not dissimilar to a sawing pattern for…
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We are thrilled to reflect on another successful Open House weekend. Big thank you to everyone who joined us, some of you visiting both of our locations in Belsize Park. This year was really special with attendance soaring to over 100 visitors in just two hours on each site, setting our new record. Special thanks go…
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