{"id":243868,"date":"2026-01-21T05:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243868\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:55:26","slug":"nimtim-architects-uses-colour-to-unite-extended-london-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243868\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimtim Architects uses colour to unite extended London home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Openings coloured in ultramarine blue were used to create visual connections within this London home<\/a>, which has been renovated<\/a> and extended<\/a> by local studio Nimtim Architects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Named Peek-a-Blue, the project by Nimtim Architects<\/a> sought to transform the home’s small and fragmented ground floor living spaces into a series of interconnected spaces for its residents.<\/p>\n

\"ViewNimtim Architects has renovated and extended a London home<\/p>\n

Integral to this was the addition of an almost double-height snug at the centre of the home, which links to the newly-added kitchen and dining room extension at the rear.<\/p>\n

The studio lowered the floor in the snug to address a one-metre-drop from the front of the home to the garden, allowing this space to be accessed directly from the kitchen.<\/p>\n

\"InteriorThe living spaces were adjusted to sit on one level<\/p>\n

“The main concept of the project was to create a new living space\/ plane for the family that reflects the way they want to live,” project architect\u00a0Pippa Grayson told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“The design dropped part of the front of the existing house to meet the rear garden level,” she continued. “This created a new living space that was more appropriate in scale for the needs of the family and had a direct connection to the garden.”<\/p>\n

\"KitchenLight blue-coloured cabinetry lines the kitchen<\/p>\n

At the back of the home, the Peek-a-Blue extension has been finished externally in an earthy clay render, which is set off by full-height openings and a porthole window outlined in ultramarine blue.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, inside, the kitchen and dining space have been lined with light blue-coloured cabinetry, paired with recycled plastic worktops and gridded clay tiles that extend through the home.<\/p>\n

A benched seating area crowned with a semi-circular skylight runs along the length of the space.<\/p>\n

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“Overall, the project adopts a rich and textural material palette of reds and ochres the unites and grounds the new living spaces,” Grayson said.<\/p>\n

“The visual connections are identified and highlighted in the bold ultramarine frames and reveals of these new\u00a0openings.”<\/p>\n

\"HallwayOpenings have been coloured in ultramarine blue<\/p>\n

A steel-framed opening connects the extension to the two-storey snug, which Nimtim Architects designed as a “focal point” for the home.<\/p>\n

Boxy windows wrap around the space and, on one wall, look onto the home’s staircase as a way to link the home’s spaces, Grayson explained.<\/p>\n

“The sense of disconnect that still existed between the spaces and the staircase was addressed with the bright blue punched openings between them.”<\/p>\n

\"PinkPink tiles clad a bathroom<\/p>\n

The home’s bedrooms are on the upper floors, where other updated spaces include a bathroom clad entirely in pink tiles.<\/p>\n

Other London homes recently featured on Dezeen include a “mystical and grounding” renovation of a townhouse by local studio CAN<\/a> and a timber-framed extension of a south London home by James Alder Architects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Jim Stephenson<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Openings coloured in ultramarine blue were used to create visual connections within this London home, which has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,10350,501,1634,156,2273,1619,10351,12194,111,139,142887,69,10354,1621,1774,1613],"class_list":{"0":"post-243868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-british-houses","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-houses","17":"tag-london","18":"tag-london-house-extensions","19":"tag-london-houses","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nimtim-architects","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-residential-extensions","25":"tag-sectionall","26":"tag-sectionarchitecture","27":"tag-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}