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Floor Plans
The Before
Victorian Terrace, Brockley
I worked with Bench Studio on several bespoke joinery pieces for the house: a walnut and marble sideboard in the snug with a TV cabinet above, a pull-out desk set within a bookcase, and a custom shelving unit for the client’s top-floor office.
Custom rugs from A Rum Fellow and Coral + Hive helped anchor each room and gave them a sense of coherence. In the guest bedroom, new wall lights and bedside tables completed a space that had the basics but needed the layers.
In the library, the existing bookshelves were painted slate grey – entirely wrong against a beautiful blue and red piece of artwork the clients had bought. We weren’t planning to touch the joinery, but I knew repainting it in a deep blue would make the room. So we did. A small intervention for a significant difference.
The result is a house that finally felt like the sum of its parts – considered, warm and properly lived in.
Photography by Jon Aaron Green
A pair of lawyers with a young family had done everything right with their large Victorian terrace in Brockley – worked with a good architect, completed a big extension and bought an expensive sofa – but somehow it wasn’t feeling like home. The bones were there but the warmth wasn’t.
The property had three reception rooms running front to back: a library at the front, a snug in the middle, and an open-plan family room, kitchen and dining space to the rear. My brief was to fix the furniture and fittings – but as is often the way, it became something more.
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"Leo took the time to understand our needs. She found excellent pieces and solutions that we never would have considered. We would never have been so brave with colour choices without Leo’s encouragement. She was a pleasure to work with and the whole process was very smooth."
Anna, Private Client
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