Twenty-Five Years, Reconsidered
Georgian Home, Notting Hill
Neil and Faith had lived in their Notting Hill home for a quarter of a century. They loved every inch of it — the proportions, the character, the life that had accumulated in its rooms.
What they wanted wasn't a renovation, and it certainly wasn't a restoration. They wanted it to work like a modern home while still feeling like the one they'd always lived in.
That's a harder brief than it sounds. Get it wrong in one direction and you end up with pastiche. Get it wrong in the other and you lose everything that made the house worth keeping.
Every decision was tested against a single question: does this belong to the next twenty-five years of this home? Original details with the right kind of wear were kept.
Materials were chosen not for how they'd look on day one, but for how they'd age — building the next chapter of the house rather than fighting it.
The result is a home that has been quietly, comprehensively transformed, and feels entirely like itself.