Central London Flat / VW+BS

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Text description provided by the architects. It is always tricky to understand how some properties in London turn out as they do. Even with the help of the amazing site, www.british-history.ac.uk, which details the history of the development of nearly every street in London, you still can’t quite fathom why someone would divide up what should have been a gracious first floor drawing room into an awkward galley kitchen with a more than four metre high ceiling, and then a long and narrow but again very high living room. At the rear of the flat on two floors, were a warren of dark bedrooms and bathrooms. This was the flat in a Kensington street at the time we were asked to redesign it.