Having a designer in the family can be a boon. When Londoner Charles Maggs was selling his home of 45 years, his son-in-law, architect Neil Dusheiko, helped him find a Victorian terrace house just around the corner from his family’s own Victorian in Stoke Newington, in the city’s northwest corner.
Photography courtesy of Neil Dusheiko Architects.
Photograph by Agnes Sanvito.
Set in the back of the house, the new kitchen features a glazed extension that occupies part of a side alley.
The addition has a framework of columns that elegantly serve as shelf dividers as well as rafters supporting the skylight.
Photograph by Tim Crocker.
An island with built-in wine bottle storage neatly divides the dining area from the kitchen.
Photograph by Agnes Sanvito.
As a counterpart to the gallery wall, the kitchen is streamlined. The kitchen cabinet frames came from Howdens, and Dusheiko customized them with MDF doors sprayed in a softer, more subtle version of the pale green.
Photograph by Agnes Sanvito.
A window seat with below-the-bench storage runs along the window wall.
Photograph by Agnes Sanvito.
Designed as a place for “visitors to sit and chat with the cook,” it’s also an ideal reading spot detailed with an inset bookshelf.
Photograph by Tim Crocker.
Maggs, now retired from a career in law, continually adds to the display on his shelves.
Photograph by Agnes Sanvito.
Formerly divided into separate kitchen, dining, and living rooms, the three are now open to each other. The glass pendant lights, selected to blend with the skylight, are Sofie Refer’s Mega Bulb SR2.
Photograph by Agnes Sanvito.
The art wall continues in the parlor: Dusheiko dubbed the project Gallery House.
Before and After plans explain how Dusheiko created an open flow on the ground floor and used indoor and outdoor brick to unify the project.