Loft Living by Mitchell + Corti Architects

Loft Living is a Victorian loft and roof extension on an end-of-terrace, first-floor flat in London, designed by Mitchell + Corti Architects. The project's headline move is an upside-down plan: open-plan loft living and kitchen above, bedrooms below. It is a layout that splits opinion, and one the clients were happy to commit to.

The site itself shaped much of the brief. An irregular quadrilateral footprint, often read on paper as a constraint, became the basis for the architecture. Skylights sit at angles that match the geometry of the existing roof, and the staircase plan follows the same logic. Both choices avoid the off-the-shelf loft conversion vocabulary and lean into the building's quirks.

Inside, bold colours sit against dual-aspect views and the shifting light cast by the multiple skylights piercing the roof. The home almost doubled in size and character, the practice notes, without losing the original character of the Victorian terrace.

Loft Living completed in 2020 with a project size of 150 m² across two levels.

Credits: Architecture by Mitchell + Corti Architects (project team: Ester Corti, Andrew Mitchell). Engineering by Mitchinson Macken. Photography by Luke Weller.