East London Terraced House, Wanstead

Kitchen corner in dark green and off-white, with a range cooker in a tiled recess, a patinated copper splashback and cream wall cabinets above.

Walk-in shower tiled in narrow pale tiles scattered with pink, teal and navy, with a brass rainfall head, over a large-chip terrazzo floor.

Wide view of the bathroom: twin-mirrored trough basin between two sash windows, freestanding bath at the right, all over large-chip terrazzo.

Kitchen looking down the room to a rear extension glazed in black steel, three black cone pendants over a dark stone island and green cabinetry at the right.

For the house that keeps on giving, we enjoyed creating this family home just as much as our client. Having just purchased the house, they were keen to start renovating the whole place as soon as they moved in. So we broke it down into phases. First, we tackled the first floor including everything from the front gate to the kitchen at the back of the house. They already had a large open plan kitchen dining space with bifold doors onto the garden, so that became our focal point for fluid family living with lots of natural light. The second phase was the family bathroom upstairs, where they wanted something fun with a hint of luxury.

Galley view with dark green cabinets both sides, a stone-topped island running towards the camera and the copper splashback at the far end.

Our client wanted an industrial aesthetic with some homely warmth. In the kitchen, we paired a high copper upstand with a contrasting Atelier Zelij tiled splashback around the stove. Above the sink, we replaced an existing glass blue exterior wall with a window to tie the kitchen area in with the bifold doors. We went for dark green bespoke cabinetry to mirror the garden, and a contrasting Caesarstone worktop with hints of copper for the island.

“They understood that for us, it's very much our forever home.”

Dark green kitchen with a stone-topped island and two stools, a range cooker under a tiled recess, and the glazed rear extension opening onto the garden.

In the bathroom, we combined more Atelier Zelij tiles with chunky terrazzo flooring from Mosaic Factory - a perfect balance of luxe family fun.

Bath end of the bathroom with a brass wall filler, a plant on the tiled shelf and a traditional towel rail holding a blue-grey towel.

“They're always finding bigger, better stuff than what I was finding.”

Bathroom vanity: a long white trough basin wall-hung over vertical pale tiles, with brass mixers and exposed traps below two arched frameless mirrors.

Freestanding white bath against half-height pale tiling with a brass floor-standing filler, a sash window to the left and terrazzo underfoot.

Living on site while the work was going on was naturally going to be disruptive to our client’s routine. Throughout the project, we were on hand in person, or just a WhatsApp or phone call away. We met every concern with a calm solution and built a real relationship with this growing family.

“You pay the premium and get a team that you trust to do a really good job. It's not just the stuff that they're producing, but it's the relationship you have, the professionalism.”

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