Using the contrast of the smoked oak with white paneling, McLaren Excell transformed a former west London office into a family home. White ribbed paneling provides a neutral backdrop for smoked-oak furnishings and marble bathrooms in this project.
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Originally, this London’s Shepherds Bush building was an industrial laundry facility. The London-based McLaren Excell was selected for overhaul the two-storey Rylett Crescent building. they created a four-bedroom residence, placing the living areas in the light-filled, double-height first floor, and the bedrooms on the ground floor.
“The layout of the building lent itself to a ‘flipped’ arrangement,” said the studio co-founder Luke McLaren. “The living areas occupy the light-drenched first floor, with the bedrooms and bathrooms located on the darker and cooler ground floor,” he adds.
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Occupying a 12-metre-long room on the first floor, we can find an open-plan living, kitchen, and dining. This division is topped by a continuous glazed roof light and clerestory windows that flood the space with natural light.
The architects painted all the walls and ceilings white, and lined two of the parallel walls with white-painted paneling, partially covering the windows that run along the top of the wall.
To provide a contrast the firm choose Darker furnishings as the dark, smoked-oak kitchen cabinets and storage drawers that are built into walls and the concrete flooring.
“The rhythmic paneling conceals much of the necessary amenity spaces off the central living area and provides a neutral backdrop to the expanse of concrete flooring and beautifully figured smoked-oak joinery,” said McLaren.
In the original volume on this level, they add a roof terrace, accessed from the lounge by a set of glazed sliding doors. These windows are also intended to bathe the staircase to the ground floor with light.
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