Landsdowne Road

An elegant Kensington house connected to a stunning communal garden, this property had been heavily converted and stylised and, while unusual, had lost the natural flow of the original design.

Our brief was to piece it back together to create a life home. We achieved this by creating a series of spaces to serve family living, while maximising space and connecting the primary floors with a careful and sympathetic restoration and extension of the rear elevation. We completely stripped out and reconstructed the interior of the hill property and reinstated a core flow with a new staircase in a style and position respecting the original stair of which only remnants remained.

The house was carefully reordered: the upper ground floor being the more formal reception rooms – a sitting room and study, separated only by a large folding glazed screen. The lower ground floor became the core family space, with a kitchen and sitting/dining area, leading out to a small private garden and on into the communal garden beyond. First, second and third floors provide the master suite, children’s rooms and guest rooms to the top of the house.

The project was an exercise in creating a quietly contemporary home with a sense of logic and respect of the original house. At Powell Tuck Associates, the material palette and interior design were carefully developed in close collaboration with the client to create a complete design that not only fulfilled the project brief but also preserved the character of the house while extending its functionality for future living.