CASE STUDY A BRIGHTER FUTURE
A couple looking to turn their cramped Victorian house in east London into a bright, open and spacious home for their growing family, used a fairly unproven architect to help them strike the right balance
TEXT ROSEANNE FIELD IMAGES ADAM FIRMAN
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inding a home in London with enough space for a family is no easy task, as Lorin and Saliha Van Nuland discovered when looking for one that would accommodate their changing needs. They’d not done major home renovations before, they were interested in doing a project, and this led them to take on a house in Hackney, although it wasn’t the standard ‘fixer upper.’ “You’re always trying to find the best of all worlds – which is challenging when you’re in London,” Lorin explains. “In hindsight I think we overpaid a little – it was a bit too ‘nice’ internally given that we wanted to do a project.”
They stripped the house back, reconfiguring the entire layout, excepting the master
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bedroom, added a rear and side return extension and converted the loft. An architect friend (who specialises in commercial projects) recommended they go with another practice, Studio 8FOLD. Lorin explains: “We were pretty much one of their first large projects, so it was a bit of a leap of faith on our part, but we did not regret it at all, they were fantastic.”
PLANNING & DESIGN
The design was a true collaboration with the architects, which Lorin says worked extremely well to resolve his and Saliha’s sometimes conflicting views. “When you’re designing a house as a couple, your decisions don’t always align, so considering what two people want is
LOW POINT
“When we opened up the roof, plus delays on some key items,
particularly the kitchen – it was the last important point of the project and it delayed our moving in by almost two months.” –Lorin
nov/dec 2021
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