HIGHGATE, N6

A unique 1950’s, 3 storey home in Highgate was reconfigured and refurbished to work perfectly for a modern way of life. The original interiors were sympathetically revised to create a new, more practical scheme for todays’ living.

A new bespoke cherrywood study overlooking the front of the property allowed for home working as an efficient ‘office’ whilst creating a characterful and comfortable home study space for the family to utilise.

The ‘cherrywood’ theme was also used for the master bedroom robes and panelled walls elsewhere linking the warm and natural material throughout.

Italian cement terrazzo floor in green and white echoes the lush green environment surrounding the property.

In design terms a ‘nod’ to the original era. The floor runs throughout to visually expand the space.

The addition of floor to ceiling doors and Crittal glazing in anodised bronze, allowed for much more light and also verticality to the design visually lifting the ceilings.

On the ground floor, a ‘ hidden’ toilet in dark green and a utility behind cherry panels were designed in detail to provide every convenience, whilst also minimising the entrance hallway to create a wider and lighter entrance. These vertical design elements are also hinted at through the treatment of the front elevation with ‘ribbed’ woodwork and reeded glazing panel.

A modular matt black kitchen with white marble counters and up stands creates a strong core element to the ground floor. The kitchen opens to the garden via sliding anodised bronze fine framed sliding doors.

The garden terrace set with luxurious sofas and surrounded by a collection of eclectic planters overlooks a lush green ‘dell’ lower terrace designed for entertaining with pizza oven, BBQ and dining table and benches.

The dining area of the kitchen has a boucle banquette and picture gallery. On the first floor the floor to ceiling glazed living room was designed with a new biofuel fireplace in geometric tiles with cord sofas each side.

A single ‘wave’ curtain across the entire rear elevation creates scale and picks up the verticality of the overall scheme.

With attention to material detail and softness and comfort this design scheme fuses modernism without the usual ‘museum’ feel.

CROMWELL AVENUE

Reviewed in Living Etc, this four storey family home was completely refurbished and reconfigured to create a multi-functional and contemporary family home, combining luxury materials, finishes and design elements with a relaxed freshness and brightness throughout.

The design included some charming transitions between spaces creating an intriguing journey through the home: the hidden walk-through bedroom robes into a master bathroom/ steam room.

A large scale project utilising high quality materials to create a successful metamorphosis into a luxury, eclectic and characterful modern home.

OSWALD ROAD

A two storey extended house was designed with specific requirements for the client. A personal marble and antique mirrored dressing room with unique carousel shoe storage, de Gournay hand-painted wallpaper interiors for the bespoke robes and walk-through luxury bathroom was designed for her. For him a walnut panelled, contemporary dressing room with a drawer set lined in lemon-yellow leather.

Throughout, the house has a unique character born of a creative and flexible approach from the client to design ideas.

LADY MARGARET

An expansive Victorian family home required structural and spatial reconfiguration.

The interior design and project co ordination works involved a substantial strip out of large portions of the home to create a new master-suite on the first floor, a children’s floor with bedrooms and bathroom and on the ground floor, a new charming kitchen dining room.

The unique and characterful large master ensuite, found via the sumptuous pink master bedroom are both designed as luxurious yet eclectic and combine perfectly to create a unique look to the home, reflecting the character of the client.

Signature full, single colour room schemes and boldness of combinations of furniture and finishes, create scale and re-establish the lost grandeur and scale of an imposing Victorian home.

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

‘Bond’ became the inspiration for a music management company that represents some major British artists.

Stripping out the dated, dark and worn existing interiors to create an open-plan office flooded with light was the first step.

Then re-establishing some separation for office and meeting rooms was required for client meetings and general work area to co-exist. The solution found via minimal acoustic glass pod areas.

The interior design utilised chique and modernist furniture and finishes including painting the cement columns gold and selecting mid-century modern oak and leather furniture.

The existing concrete ceiling had poor lighting and the design solution was to create a multi glow-globe configuration via  galvanised track system that reflected the design 1960’s Bond brief but delivered light precisely where required.

New microcement floors throughout with feature deep pile rugs, ‘Miss Money-Penny’ desks for the agents created a lux feel finished off with a black and gold kitchen adding a bit of extra glamour.