Garden Flat, Little Venice
Homage to the Housewife
Completed October 2002

A thoroughly enjoyable project carried out in conjunction with Spoon42 Architecture.

A large garden flat in Little Venice was in need of a revamp but our client had no desire for modern minimalism. Her passion is for all things 50’s from frocks to kitsch plastic cups. She had fallen in love with an original English Rose kitchen she’d spotted at our warehouse. Its credentials were good, its previous home being Rolls Royce’s headquarters in Derbyshire.

Whilst structural opening up works were ongoing the need for an appropriate floor became more acute. The strictest of briefs: "it must look like its been here forever". Fortuitously large-scale building works were on going at nearby St Mary’s hospital, Paddington. We were offered hundreds of square metres of mahogany parquet flooring. Fantastic value but bitumen backed therefore needing careful laying to maintain most of the original patina. A 1950’s Hoover floor polisher appropriately buffs them up a treat!