Completed homes across
Europe and the UK
Every project below is a real home we designed and, in most cases, furnished. Each project page sets out what the property was, what the client asked for and what we changed, because a portfolio that shows only the finished photograph tells you what a room looks like and nothing about whether the studio can solve your problem.
The work spans Altbau apartments, loft and former institutional conversions, period houses and contemporary family homes, in Berlin, London and other European cities, with projects also completed in the United States, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. Some are a single room. Others are a whole property taken from survey to installation.
Altbau apartments
High ceilings and original fabric, in a plan that usually cannot move.
Conversions
Lofts and former institutional buildings with awkward volumes and fabric worth keeping.
Period houses
Homes where an alteration needs consent as well as a design.
Family homes
Whole properties where every room has to relate to the next one.
What a brief looks like
when it pulls both ways
Every project has a tension in it, and the project pages say what it was. Taking the Oliver Platz family home in Wilmersdorf, Berlin as the example:
A family home that also has to be an office
The clients are a young family with two children, one parent working from home. The brief asked for more usable space, more daylight and generous storage, all at once, in a home that has to keep working as the children grow. Storage takes floor area and blocks light, which is the argument a flat like this has to settle before anything is chosen.
What we actually did: a Scandinavian led palette of soft neutrals and natural texture, bespoke storage built in rather than bought in, multi purpose furniture and flexible layouts for a family whose needs keep changing, and soft layered lighting rather than one source per room.
Read the Oliver Platz project, or pick whichever project below most resembles your own.
The parts that repeat
The homes look nothing like each other, which is the point. What is consistent is the method underneath them.
- Layout before finish. Where the walls, circulation and sightlines sit is decided before anything is chosen. A beautiful scheme laid over a layout that does not work is an expensive way to keep a problem.
- One designer throughout. The person who takes the brief is the person who presents the scheme. On European projects that designer is resident in the market, in Germany, France, Spain or the UK, rather than covering the continent from one office.
- Procurement in your name. Where we buy on your behalf we act as your agent. Invoices are raised in your name, and the trade discounts we hold are passed on in full rather than absorbed into the fee.
- Involvement past the drawings. On most of these we stayed on through procurement and the build, which is usually where a design either survives or quietly gets value engineered away.
Most furniture mistakes are timing mistakes
The order decisions are taken in is most of what separates the projects on this page from the ones that get repainted twice. Furniture Budgeting and Sequencing, the European edition, sets out where the money goes, why a construction contingency and a furnishing contingency cannot be the same pot, and real European lead times category by category, including the July and August factory shutdowns nobody mentions when they quote you a date.
It also carries the chapter that saves the most money, which is about doorways. A German 86er clears 819mm, a French 73cm block clears about 700mm, and Spain quotes 62.5, 72.5 or 82.5cm. Not one of them takes a three seater lying flat, which is why you measure the route and not just the room.
Start with your own property
If something here resembles what you are planning, tell us about the property and where you have got to. A first call is free and fifteen minutes, and if the honest answer is that you need an architect or a builder before you need us, we will say so. How a project runs from brief to installation is set out on the design process page, and what each package covers on the packages page.
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