Deco House is a serene and sun-drenched home that reimagines the Art Deco style for contemporary living. Nestled within the backstreets of leafy Kew, our clients asked us to renovate their period cottage to create a warm family home with welcoming spaces, lots of light, and enough bedrooms to accommodate future children.

Our design intervention creates a rational sequence of living and sleeping zones that orbit around compact garden spaces, gifting each room with a view outside and access to gorgeous natural light.

The rooms are generously arranged to provide places to cook, socialise and relax, while clever storage facilitates cheeky display spaces for our clients’ eclectic LEGO collection.

The building form and material palette riff on the original’s white render and decorative red brick detailing, interpreting these to form a curvy red brick extension with decorative white detailing. The heaviness of the brickwork is offset by the lightness of perforated metal screens that filter the sunlight during the day and glow like lanterns in the evening.