“It turns out—if you’re wondering—that pulling tile off a wall is harder than you think,” Sophie quips, “but taking the wall down is easier than you think. We tried to just take down tiles, but that actually took down the whole wall. The tile was stuck to the wall harder than the wall was stuck to itself.”
After several months spent with a semi-functional bathroom, Sophie and Lawrence decided to leave the rest of the big projects to the contractors. The workers fixed the bathroom, added an enclosed office space to the upstairs mezzanine for a more cohesive work-from-home situation, and installed the new kitchen.
The open living room and lofted kitchen area are lined in Ultra Blue by Little Greene. The couple found the sideboard several years ago on the street when they were roommates in North London and carried it back to their then home.
Veerle EvensAnyone who has tried to DIY might understand the change of heart. “During this process I’ve sold two books, I got a new job, and Lawrence got a new job,” Sophie explains. “In the beginning we said, We’re going to do this ourselves. We’re going to save all this money, we’re going to buy everything secondhand, it’s going to be great. Then, by the end, we were like, Get people, pay people, bring them here!”
But the DIY spirit remains with these two. Once the builders finished with the heavy lifting, Sophie and Lawrence put on the finishing touches. They installed new light fixtures, laid gold epoxy resin in the kitchen floor, and hand-painted the bathroom cabinet. They also took their rebellious streak to the IKEA sofa configurator and customized their own couch design, achieved after, as Sophie describes it, “all rules [were] broken.” The space was also an opportunity to bring together the pieces they’d carried with them from home to home as flatmates and now, as a homeowning couple.
After a few renovation missteps that led to Sophie and Lawrence living sans fully functioning shower for a few months, the bathroom is now picture-perfect. The sink and cabinet were found on eBay. The Mid Azure cabinet color is by Little Greene, and the yellow wall color is Lemon Burst by Wilko.
Veerle EvensTheir last project was also Lawrence’s favorite, the Yves Klein-inspired trim, a shade called Ultra Blue by Little Greene. Nearly two years to the day they picked up the keys (and the floorboards), the bold color outlines the kitchen and the lofted space. “The Ultra Blue was one of the first things we started, and, strangely, one of the last things we finished,” he says. “So it’s like it has bookended the whole project. It just ties a lot of the house together.”
Several volumes of Sophie’s work can be seen in the upstairs office. A Kit-Cat clock and vintage stationery from Present & Correct adorn the walls.
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The couple’s bedroom features a painting by Sophie, a Wayfair bed, and a coverlet from Anthropologie. The side tables were carted home from Paris on a Eurostar.
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