Brosh Architects’ Notting Hill townhouse renovation restores an Early Victorian end-of-terrace home that had lost much of its period character.
The project is about careful repair as much as modernisation: bringing back charm, improving circulation, adding natural light and making the home work for contemporary living without flattening its history.
Project focus
Lior Brosh describes a house that had not been renovated since the 1980s, with plain finishes and missing period detail. The design response was to upgrade the home while reintroducing character that felt right for the building and street.
Renovation moves to notice
- Distressed oak flooring with an old English finish helped the interiors feel settled rather than newly imposed.
- Farrow and Ball blue and green tones were chosen to suit the Georgian and early Victorian character.
- Concealed lighting reduced the need for heavy spotlighting.
- A new portico and Portland stone stairs improved the street presence.
- The roof terrace access and staircase strategy improved use, flow and natural light.
Built project lesson
Residential renovation is often won or lost in the judgement calls. The strongest projects make modern life easier while protecting the parts of the building that give it identity.
Showcase a built residential project
If your practice has completed a renovation, extension or retrofit, show the design decisions that made the project work.
- Explain the existing condition.
- Show the key repair or intervention.
- Use images that reveal material, light and circulation.
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