65m2 Apartment, London

Concept and Intent

The project seeks to reinterpret the apartment through an English-inspired aesthetic, combining the warmth of the Soho Home style with the classic elegance of an English club.
The proposal focuses on achieving spatial flexibility, improved circulation, and a coherent palette of deep tones, walnut wood, and abundant greenery, creating a sophisticated, timeless, and welcoming atmosphere.

Option A – Optimistic Reconfiguration

Option A represents the most complete and ambitious scenario, fully aligned with the client’s wishes.
Walls are reconfigured to expand the kitchen and bathroom, allowing the integration of the kitchen and living–dining area through a three-leaf glazed sliding door.
A comfortable island bar becomes the social heart of the kitchen, linking the kitchen, dining, and relaxation areas.

The guest room / home office incorporates a Strachan wall-bed unit, allowing the space to transform easily between work and rest.
It opens to the living area through an acoustic pocket door, enabling a more fluid and open workspace that can also close off for privacy when used as a guest bedroom.

Although the master bedroom is slightly reduced in size, the new layout creates a cleaner entrance sequence and more defined privacy for the night area, while maintaining visual connection and convenient access to the bathroom from the public zone.

Option B – Conservative Adaptation

Option B maintains the existing spatial configuration, yet adapts the same aesthetic language and furniture design developed for Option A.
In the kitchen, the original layout is preserved, remaining faithful to the existing organisation, while incorporating all the desired functional and aesthetic upgrades—new materials, better storage solutions, and refined details.
A compact breakfast bar retains the client’s wish for a casual dining area—not as prominent as in Option A, but achieved in a more discreet and functional way.

Kitchen Design

In both options, the design follows the Smallbone Iconic Collection catalogue as its base, achieving both aesthetic and functional improvements.
In this section, special attention was given to the junction between the worktop and the low window, proposing realistic and technically feasible solutions.

Thus, Option B works as a rigid and permit-friendly alternative, while Option A proposes the most flexible and transformative scenario.
Both share the same construction logic and visual coherence, allowing for either combined or phased execution depending on approval conditions.

Atmosphere

The palette combines:
Lone Splendor (petroleum blue) on main walls, providing depth and character; Tidy White on ceilings and secondary walls to balance and amplify light; and walnut wood on floors, furniture, and wall panelling for warmth and continuity.
Dark marbles from the Smallbone Iconic Collection in the kitchen, together with black matte fittings and profiles, provide contrast and definition.
Similarly, dark tones were chosen for the bathroom, reinforcing a sense of understated luxury.

The composition is complemented by natural and hanging plants—pothos, philodendron, spider plants—arranged on high shelves, dividing units, and bookshelves, bringing freshness and an organic rhythm throughout the space. Half of the mirrored column is also coated with a green coating in both options.

The result is a home that blends heritage and modernity: classic details, warm lighting, and tactile materials balanced by a living presence of greenery and a versatile layout.
Both proposals achieve an elegant, coherent, and functional environment, capable of adapting to diverse lifestyles and implementation scenarios.

Trusting the project will be to your satisfaction, I remain with kind regards.