Victorian terrace house
Project type: CONCEPT, SOURCING, COLLABORATION.
Total area - 37m²
Scope: Second bedroom + living / dining room
Address - Brighton, Sussex
Client - Private homeowners
Main contractor - East West Refurbishment
📷 Photos to follow
I recently helped a local family to rethink their Victorian terrace home where they've lived for ten years. It's a house type and size I have grown up with so it felt very familiar and I've seen lots of ways these houses have been reconfigured.
The project needed planning and designing well - in order to spend the budget wisely and help the works be carried out as efficiently as possible.
The clients wanted to improve the design to better support the use of the family, especially as their daughter gets older and clearly has lot f creative talent to nurture!
🍃 To optimise the space - this involved some beautiful bespoke joinery and bespoke upholstery in 100% recycled post consumer PET, made in the UK. All FSC timber.
🍃 The living space was opened up and better laid out to suit the position of the room and the uses within it. We switched ends - creating a bright daytime space with double glazed doors- and with a cosy snug at the rear.
🍃 We used healthy, non-toxic, non-animal tested ecological paints throughout .
Reused original floorboards where we could. Repairs in reclaimed timber.
🍃 The client requested internal insulation to be added to the rear wall and under the floorboards. New double glazed windows were installed. Heating was re-evaluated and updated
I'm so pleased the family are happy and enjoying their space again
It was so great to be given this 5 star review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Project steps:
- Briefing and site visit
- Interior design concept
- Design development and sourcing
- Detail drawings and specification
- Trade liaison

The following elements were incorporated into the design:
Using small businesses including local
Ecological, non-toxic, non-animal tested paint
UK made bespoke sofa and storage footstool
Upholstery in 100% recycled post consumer PET
Reused floorboards and repairs in reclaimed timber
Reused dining table and chairs
FSC timber and cork
Modular, reconfigurable scaffold bunk bed
Multi-purpose desk area and shelving
Upcycled task chair
Internal wall insulation, updated heating, replacement windows
Locally made window coverage