Ladbroke Road is a project designed by Brosh Architects. A complete renovation and transformation to bring back the old charm to a dark & tired Early Victorian end-of-terrace house in Notting Hill, London. Photography by Ollie Hammick.

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The aim of the project was to renovate an Early Victorian ?End-of-terrace? house in desperate need of modernisation.

The house hadn?t been renovated since the 1980?s, had a very plain finish all over and had lost most of its original period charm. The aim was to not only to upgrade the property to modern living but to bring back some of the charm that was lost due to many renovations throughout the years.

For the floors, we used distressed and damaged oak flooring with old English finish stain so it would look like it has been there for the past 200 years. Even though the house was built in an early Victorian era, it was designed by the Georgians and therefore we wanted to use wall colours that would match that era so decided to use different shades of blue and green (by Farrow & Ball).
The whole house received its heating and hot water through ?A Thermodynamic Water Heating System?. We used only under floor heating on the lower and upper ground floors and used period style radiators for the 1st and 2nd floor. We avoided spotlights almost completely, and the house was lit by concealed lighting such as strip lighting hidden within furniture, walls and ceiling. We used pendant...