Maison pour Dodo

Maison pour Dodo is a refurbishment of an apartment in Stoke Newington, Hackney, London.

We created a generous yet minimal connected living space on the first floor, whilst rebalancing the size of spaces on the second to provide a larger family bathroom. As storage in residential properties is always a welcome addition but can encourage the collection of unnecessary things, the project re-articulates the layout of the apartment to provide compressed storage in less useful spaces and through the combination of architecture and interior design, deliberately encourages curated minimal living. The scheme seeks to create calming scandinavian design with a soft French twist. Pastel-franco colour tones compliment natural whitewashed Douglas Fir, used as flooring throughout and wrapping up walls to create high quality thresholds and informal seating with strategic views. Edges are softened / rounded throughout, whilst whitened Ash and bespoke Douglas Fir furniture created from project offcuts provide a warmer domestic tactility and reduce construction waste.

Project Data

Architect + Interior Designer: Studio Merlin

Client: Private

Structural Engineer: Elliott Wood

Contractor: H Quality Construction

Subcontractors: A1 Specialised, CNC Projects, Easyspray

Building Control: Wilkinson Construction

Photography: Richard Chivers

Flooring / Stairs: Dinesen

Kitchen: Reform CHP

Countertop: Kitchen - Caesarstone, Bathroom - Corian

Kitchen Appliances: Fisher & Paykel, Smeg

Lighting: Muuto, Louis Poulsen, Menu, Hay

Paint: Farrow & Ball - Setting Plaster, All White, Blackened, Inchyra Blue, De Nimes, Carriage Green

Brassware: Lusso Stone

Sanitaryware: VitrA, Kaldewei, Lusso Stone

Tiles: Mandarin Stone

Ironmongery: Dowsing & Reynolds

Sockets / Switches: Dowsing & Reynolds

Furniture: Ercol, Muuto, String, Studio Merlin

Art: The French Dispatch Exhibition Poster

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