The challenge
Mansion blocks have magnificent proportions and awkward realities: deep-set windows that swallow daylight, long dark corridors, and lath-and-plaster walls that resist every modern service run.
Living · London
Apartment refurbishment & furnishing
A classic London mansion-block apartment refurbished and fully furnished — panelled reception rooms, restored cornice, chandeliers and a soft, pale palette that lets the period proportions do the talking. Photographed on completion.
Mansion blocks have magnificent proportions and awkward realities: deep-set windows that swallow daylight, long dark corridors, and lath-and-plaster walls that resist every modern service run.
The palette was kept pale and reflective — cream, bone, brushed brass — so the daylight that does arrive is used twice. Corridors were treated as rooms in their own right, with lit joinery and dark lacquered doors punctuating the run, and the reception rooms furnished symmetrically so the original proportions are reinforced rather than fought.
A period apartment that feels light and current without erasing what makes it worth owning.
Statement chandeliers restored to the original ceiling roses, supported by table and floor lamps rather than downlights — the ceilings are too good to perforate.
