This building was a carpenter workshop
and as we have our house down the road
I knew the carpenter very well and when he
retired I've got the opportunity to buy
the workshop
What we did was designs a space to have friends and family when they visited London
The townhouse here is 40 square meters
it has a footprint of 20 square meters
it was always 2 floors but we lifted the
roof half a meter up so we could get a mezzanine in
in instead of making a
bedroom with walls and doors ones that I
make this built-in bed pods when you go
to bed
you are kind of enclosed so it feels
like a tree house or another little
house inside the house
I like to use
colors but in kind of more interventions
like colorful chairs or I mean we have
Joe Niemeyer's pictures on the wall here
and downstairs very graphical but also
quite kind of primary colors
The bathroom is bright yellow yellow
it's kind of a i find a very happy color
like the sunflower and you know  the
sunshine at the same time the house is
quite calm with its white walls and
wood but still some playfulness with
some different accent of colors I
furnished the house with chairs and
also tables that is up cycled from old
chairs and tables that I picked up in
the street or in junk shops
This is frames that I have stripped I
made up the seats and the backs and do
the upholsteries they're quite cartoonish
and fun you know in their shapes and a
bit exaggerated shapes so it gives the
space more personality
The lamps are designed for this house
here is designed in a square wooden
section sectioned it in in oak To maximize
the light in the space we have put in a
big skylight with it south-facing which
we then also transfer it down to the
lower ground floor with a big glass
panel in in the floor
Like in any small spaces you have to find places where you can put your storage and kind of hide it
away so here we have storage under the
bed
you got storage under the stairs in the
kitchen we have obviously like a
dishwasher and a washing machine and
appliances that are needed we've got a
hot boiling tap so we don't need to have
a kettle there
In small spaces every little square inch matters it is more
like designing a boat or a caravan how
do you create comfortable bedding how do
you create enough storage and
comfortable seating that doesn't take up
space you haven't got and I think the
compromise is that if it's well designed
it doesn't feel smaller
