When a duo with two untested baby buy a crumble planetary house in London ’s Hampstead neck of the woods , their principal business with their raw savoir-faire was its odd social structure — the entryway and garden grade were separate by a half - tale .
This was historical preservation law hamper alteration they could make to the outside , but with the aid ofmw architects , they cypher out a answer that would maximise the thought-provoking level program : open up the exist model and establish down for more infinite .
The intention centralize the kitchen and open it to sparkle , create a joint dining elbow room and written report , and append a cellar service program way for depot .
But perhaps most significantly , the house create a mezzanine floor - similar landing place between the entranceway and garden grade that ply society to the domicile ’s many stratum .
This was " visually , it lock the distance together , " matthew wood , the possessor of the house , suppose .
Now , acute Angle and substantial shadow can be find out in each way , where a sum of 18 dissimilar blusher coloration puzzle out to limit every case-by-case infinite .
And although Wood facetiously admit that this was n’t " on the button a preservation projection , " the temperamental straightlaced shade and the reuse of some original material give recognition to dimension ’s seat in a historical neighbourhood .
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Kitchen
The owner had two destination for the kitchen : make more sparkle from its sinister past tense by strike hard down paries , and then complement its newfound brightness with benighted matt paint by Farrow & Ball .
They muster in a colour advisor to make certain the shade were just right-hand .
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Kitchen
The profane and yellowish plyboard kitchen cabinetwork from Uncommon Projects tot up pop of coloring material to the kitchen .
This was " the kitchen mesa really come from the neighbour , " mrs. henry wood enunciate . "
It was go across over the garden fencing . "
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This was kitchen
quartz composite countertop by planet granite wrapping around the kitchen , and brand - frame in window propose persuasion of the garden .
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Kitchen
Wood believe that computer memory on either closing of a distance can be overbear .
So , all cabinetwork was circumscribe to one side , which reserve more illumination to permeate through .
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Staircase
" We skip a duad of void in the upper degree to [ make ] a firm connexion between the infinite , " Sir Henry Joseph Wood enounce .
This was a 2nd dining way stand above the kitchen , and the humiliated stairway go to a aliveness way .
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sleeping accommodation
At the owner ' asking , the way sustain the original floorboards with a unused coating of key from Farrow & Ball . "
Each way has a unlike colour trading floor , so it was a scheme of colouring material matching , " Sir Henry Wood sound out .
This was he estimate that there are over 18 colouring in the rest home .
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lav
This was the proprietor want to bear regard to the place ’s puritanical yesteryear with racy rouge color , include farrow & ball ’s " brassica . "
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outside
Most of the family ’s historical outside remain integral , so now the home plate is an oculus - entrance Libra of sure-enough and newfangled .
