A UK Interior Designer's Well-Traveled East London Home
Photography via Studio Iro
We're taken by the East London home of Lucy Currell, founder of Studio Iro: a former blacksmith’s cottage and workshop dating from the 1800s featuring “a warm, eclectic mix of inspirations from my travels—particularly to Mexico and Japan," she told Elle Decoration. Via @studio_iro, we found an image of the exterior: “During lockdown, we painted our house in a color inspired by the Mexican architect Luis Barragán,” she wrote. “There should be more colored houses in London bringing joy.”
Inside, the dining room and plaster wall lights have been painted in Dulux’s True Terracotta.
“We unearthed a fireplace in the living area and decided to just paint over the brickwork,” says Lucy.
The living and dining room in Lucy’s double-fronted cottage.
The snug is painted in Dulux’s Natural Hessian on the walls and Red Ochre on the floor.
A detail from the snug, which is largely taken up by a green velvet corner sofa (a Gumtree purchase) with cushions from Habitat.
The kitchen—once a blacksmith’s workshop—has been laid with Mexican terracotta tiles.
Another brick fireplace was exposed in the main bathroom and painted in Atelier Ellis’s Paper and String.
The shower area with bespoke tadelakt enclosure.
In the main bedroom, Lucy has created a wallhanging from a piece of vintage Japanese fabric.