A Rehabbed London Maisonette from a Newly Minted Designer
Photography by Richard Round-Turner, courtesy of Lisa Jones
A while back, we got an email from Lisa Jones, a former fashion buyer, from her native London. Expecting a baby, she and her husband had moved across the pond to settle into a Georgian-era maisonette in Hackney. She included a few tantalizing hints about its renovation: Dinesen floors, expertly sleuthed vintage finds, and an Ikea hack kitchen.
A “simple redecoration” snowballed into a massive overhaul—all amid the birth of their son, Bo—and the completion of the project spurred Lisa to open her own design business, Lisa Jones Design. Join us for a look inside the newly revamped maisonette.
The outside of the small Georgian terrace house.
The front parlor. "I like adding color with furniture and objects and to keep walls more neutral,” says Lisa.
The dining room, with a vintage Gubi pendant from Denmark.
The kitchen was remodeled with a high/low mix of materials, including Ikea cabinet boxes paired with custom fronts from Naked Doors.
The couple resourcefully used leftover Dinesen boards to clad one wall of the kitchen.
The front hall, with a bike rack sourced from Etsy.
Up the stairs.
A Noguchi Akari Lamp adds a sense of sculpture to the main bedroom.
Bo’s room, with wall-mounted Ivar cabinets from Ikea for easy toy storage.
The bath was fully remodeled, with square white tile sourced from Home Depot. The clawfoot bath was not original to the house, but the couple “wanted it to feel like it might have been."