London · Est. 2005
Modern Mews
A four-storey Paddington mews house reordered around a central oak stair, with rice-paper sliding doors and a glazed front floor that drops light all the way to the lower ground.
A mews, reordered around its stair.
The original house was a four-storey mews with the stair against one wall, the living room on the ground floor and the master bedroom up top. The floors barely talked to each other and only the front and back rooms got real daylight.
The plan was reorganised around the stair. We pulled it into the centre of the house and made it the move that brings the building together — a bespoke oak stair that you read from every floor. Living and bedroom were swapped: living goes up, bedroom comes down.
A glass panel set into the ground floor at the front lets daylight reach the lower-ground living room. On the upper floors, sliding doors of translucent rice-paper glass and oak louvres act as Shoji-style screens — they hold privacy without darkening the rooms.
RIBA London Award winner; shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year final four, 2016.
"Five years on, and especially throughout lockdown, we enjoy living in our little piece of art every day. It's wellbeing on another level."
Daniel Wilson, client
What it’s made of.
- Pale natural European oak Central oak stair, joinery and ceiling lining
- White-painted London stock brick Dominant interior wall finish
- Pale polished concrete Lower-ground floor and fireplace plinth
- Rice-paper sliding-screen panel Sliding doors (washi paper + timber lattice)
- Frameless laminated clear float glass Glazed floor panel
- Brushed brass Detailing
- Matte black powder-coated steel Slim window framing
- Warm-white matt plaster Walls
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