Industrial Style

St Gabriels

Whole House Renovation

St Gabriels Kitchen, Bathrooms, Living Space, Cloakroom Project

Handleless, Industrial Style kitchen | Microcement surfaces | Heavy-Metal hardware

Handleless, Industrial Style kitchen | Microcement surfaces | Heavy-Metal hardware

This red-brick Victorian family home is an example of a project with access to all areas. Skewing Rock ‘n’ Roll in its stylings, the colour palette contrasts blackened wood, concrete grey microcement, polished plaster and dark ink-blue backgrounds with warm whites, pale greys and vibrant shots of colour and pattern – in the form of stained glass, textiles, ceramics, and graphically striking artwork.

The project extends throughout the house to include kitchen, living, dining, utility, hallway, downstairs cloakroom, stairwell, wardrobes and bathrooms.

This red-brick Victorian family home is an example of a project with access to all areas. Skewing Rock ‘n’ Roll in its stylings, the colour palette contrasts blackened wood, concrete grey microcement, polished plaster and dark ink-blue backgrounds with warm whites, pale greys and vibrant shots of colour and pattern – in the form of stained glass, textiles, ceramics, and graphically striking artwork.

The project extends throughout the house to include kitchen, living, dining, utility, hallway, downstairs cloakroom, stairwell, wardrobes and bathrooms.

Kitchen

A microcement surface has been applied to countertops, walls and an extractor hood in this industrially referenced kitchen. The hardware, light fittings and iconic Tolix ‘H’ counter-stools are mixed and matched in a range of polished and lacquered metallics: steel, copper, black brass, bronze, and nickel.

Bare-bulb, plumb-line pendant lights above the island provide an unexpectedly ambient and dimmable glow as darkness falls: five of them hang from rebelliously mismatched heavy-metal housings in metronomical, symmetrical, paradoxical formation.

The four blocks that together make up the kitchen’s various runs of furniture reflect each other in proportion, style, and materiality while remaining subtly demarcated through black or white colour choices and the careful balance of their positioning in relation to each other.

Living/Dining Area

A white-topped, steel-legged table blends with the kitchen’s industrial vibe and provides a contrast with the dark stained herringbone wood floor – that extends across the whole ground floor.

A set of white Tolix ‘A’ chairs, with curved backs and splayed tubular feet to soften the edge of their factory-pressed aesthetic, co-ordinates with the table and the kitchen countertop stools. A striking graphic print on the wall above the table provides a colourful focal point – a vase of flowers placed centrally picks up its colour palette and adds visual flow to the sense of an invitation: to sit and enjoy a space intended for gathering. 

Wall sconces are less decorative than they are designed to accommodate or co-ordinate with the wall treatments – whether they be painted or a polished plaster finishes. Adjacent to the dining table, simple hooked solid metal brass pendant bulbs add a shot of heavy-metal gold as a highlight and mirror the clean stylings of the light fittings in the kitchen.

Marine blue, blocky velvet sofas serve to clarify the relaxed soft-seating zone in this otherwise open space. A TV screen is unapologetically blatant in its staging – as access point to an ever changing set of moving images and cultural connection.

Rear Extension

Pattern, Colour, and Contrasts

Exuberant colour and pattern feature in the weave of a stair carpet, the tiled surfaces of a washroom, and the original stained glass of a landing window stand in high contrast to the painted framings of the skirting boards, balustrades, architraves and doorways.

Ink blue walls, a nightshade oak herringbone floor and ‘ebonised’ furniture provide a backdrop against which Bird branch perching wall lamps, a revamped period fireplace with Louis Philipe style mantel mirror and a classic urn shaped ceramic vase provide striking white highlights.

Loft Shower

A loft shower-room has generous natural light, and subtle artificial light effects, a ceramic, heated bench seat, and a generously wide mirrored niche – to solve the problems of a sloping ceiling and the need for a mirror view from the basin

Family Bathroom

Ceramic wood-effect tiles provide a fully water-proofed, decorative floor covering that is sympathetic to the floor treatment on the ground floor

Details

Polished Plaster

Microcement

Wood Flooring

Night-shaded, stained natural wood floors blend with wood-effect ceramic tiles laid externally, and show subtle colour perception differences depending on light conditions.