Colourful Pied-a-Terre in Westbourne Gardens, London by Nimtim.

This ambitious internal refurb of a first floor apartment in London’s Westbourne Gardens by Nimtim has resulted in a joyful urban retreat for a children’s heart surgeon.

While the overall footprint is quite small, the generous ceiling height gives a strong sense of the apartment’s grand past. The proposal seeks to retain this sense of space and grandeur by retaining the existing ceiling heights and allowing a reading of the entire space as one. Three new and distinct elements were added to the existing space – a small and compact kitchen, a stone-clad, marble-lined bathroom and bedroom wardrobes formed in a deep cherry-wood veneer.

These elements form a highly-considered three-dimensional composition of forms that retain the generosity of the main space at the front of the flat, while accommodating the new elements required for a contemporary living space.

[Images courtesy of Nimtim Architects. Photography by by Megan Taylor.]