Optimising Upper Floors

Derelict Victorian ‘upper parts’ in a town centre location turned in to two very different flats.

Why is this special?

A long unusable set of spaces turned into two sought after flats. All done on a Red Route with nowhere to unload.

The Challenge

This five storey Victorian building close to Putney Station had a café on the ground and basement floor and an unlettable run down single flat on the three upper floors. It needed full renovation inside and out, accessed only via a narrow passage whilst keeping the café open. With no space to extend the other challenge was to fit flats meeting National Space Standards into the existing confined floor plates.

Our Solution

The first floor is notionally a ‘one person studio’, but putting a minimal bedroom and tightly planned shower room at the back left a spacious living room at the front with a high ceiling, period fireplace and three big south facing sash windows. No wonder this flat lets in minutes. Above this is an ‘upside down’ two bedroom duplex with a spacious dual aspect (sunshine one way, view the other) kitchen/ living room making the best of the space in the roof.

The Results

The letting agent called this “the most incredible refurbishment that literally took the property back to the bare walls gave the us the opportunity to create the sort of home you normally only find in expensive lifestyle magazines”.