Maida Terrace
Maida Terrace THE OVERVIEW James and Jo found a Victorian terraced townhouse with the perfect location. It was in Maida Vale, just a short way from where their two daughters went to school, on a picturesque, quiet and leafy street. While the location ticked their boxes, the house itself left a lot to be desired.…
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Earl’s Court Mews THE OVERVIEW Our clients – a renowned English legal professional and an Italian artist – had purchased a run-down mews house with an ugly 1970s refurbishment that sat awkwardly at the end of an otherwise very attractive Victorian mews featuring a listed arch at the entrance. Their objective was to entirely strip…
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Kew House THE OVERVIEW Our client had been living in her detached Victorian Richmond house for almost four decades. Age had taken its toll: the radiators barely worked, the floorboards were draughty and many of the light fittings were so old you couldn’t even buy bulbs for them. The renovations required were significant, but our…
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Castelnau THE OVERVIEW Animators Mark and Suki fell in love with this Georgian terraced townhouse, but were initially too scared to buy a Grade II listed building in need of total restoration. When it went up for sale again, one year later, they decided not to let the opportunity slip by and – with our…
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Parkside THE OVERVIEW DGA have been commissioned to design a new 10,000sqft neo- Georgian mansion in Wimbledon. The house will be clad in Portland Stone – a reference to the adjoining war monument – with a traditional Welsh slate roof befitting its period inspirations. From its prime location at the entrance to Wimbledon Village, the…
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Strawberry Vale THE OVERVIEW Our clients had a dream: to live on the banks of the River Thames in one of London’s most iconic contemporary houses. Our brief was to make this dream a reality, by demolishing an existing drab 1970s property on a rare and beautiful site in Strawberry Vale, and build in its…
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Crescent Road THE OVERVIEW Kylie and Neil dreamed of owning a fabulous period family home with a strikingly modern kitchen and family room in the heart of Kingston. The challenge was how to achieve this by extending and restoring a tiny derelict 18th century cottage, including its built-in bomb shelter, within the strict confines of…
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Merimac THE OVERVIEW Like all our clients, Assad and Lisa wanted to create their perfect home – the only problem was that their ideas of a perfect home couldn’t be more different. Assad craved countryside and contemporary architecture, Lisa loved classic buildings and London living. To convince Lisa of his vision, Assad needed a site…
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Denbridge Road THE OVERVIEW Our client has always dreamed of owning an iconic modernist home with an indoor swimming pool that his young daughter could jump into from the kitchen table. Having found himself a leafy back garden surrounded by woodland, he set about creating his dream. The vision is of a low built ‘Secret…
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Richmond Hill THE OVERVIEW Our client had always dreamed of recreating her childhood home, so when a derelict Georgian house came up for sale, the opportunity was too good to miss. The house was listed and, true to its period, comprised of small dark rooms not suitable for modern family living. The goal was to…
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