Nimtim Architects uses colour to unite extended London home

Openings coloured in ultramarine blue were used to create visual connections within this London home, which has been renovated and extended by local studio Nimtim Architects.

Named Peek-a-Blue, the project by Nimtim Architects sought to transform the home's small and fragmented ground floor living spaces into a series of interconnected spaces for its residents.

Integral to this was the addition of an almost double-height snug at the centre of the home, which links to the newly-added kitchen and dining room extension at the rear.

The studio lowered the floor in the snug to address a one-metre-drop from the front of the home to the garden, allowing this space to be accessed directly from the kitchen.

"The main concept of the project was to create a new living space/ plane for the family that reflects the way they want to live," project architect Pippa Grayson told Dezeen.

"The design dropped part of the front of the existing house to meet the rear garden level," she continued. "This created a new living space that was more appropriate in scale for the needs of the family and had a direct connection to the garden."

At the back of the home, the Peek-a-Blue extension has been finished externally in an earthy clay render, which is set off by full-height openings and a porthole window outlined in ultramarine blue.

Meanwhile, inside, the kitchen and dining space have been lined with light blue-coloured cabinetry, paired with recycled plastic worktops and gridded clay tiles that extend through the home.

A benched seating area crowned with a semi-circular skylight runs along the length of the space.

"Overall, the project adopts a rich and textural material palette of reds and ochres the unites and grounds the new living spaces," Grayson said.

"The visual connections are identified and highlighted in the bold ultramarine frames and reveals of these new openings."

A steel-framed opening connects the extension to the two-storey snug, which Nimtim Architects designed as a "focal point" for the home.

Boxy windows wrap around the space and, on one wall, look onto the home's staircase as a way to link the home's spaces, Grayson explained.

"The sense of disconnect that still existed between the spaces and the staircase was addressed with the bright blue punched openings between them."

The home's bedrooms are on the upper floors, where other updated spaces include a bathroom clad entirely in pink tiles.

Other London homes recently featured on Dezeen include a "mystical and grounding" renovation of a townhouse by local studio CAN and a timber-framed extension of a south London home by James Alder Architects.

The photography is by Jim Stephenson. 

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