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This is an example of a scandinavian living room in London with beige walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace and beige floors.


We were asked to resolve a problem with the layout of a house in the Whitehall Park Conservation Area in Islington. The house had wonderful high ceilings and well proportioned reception rooms, but the kitchen was very compromised. It was housed in an old side return extension and accessed through a warren of other rooms. It was too small and low, didn’t relate well to the dining room and was cut off from the other rooms in the house, accessed down a small flight of steps. The owners wanted a generous, multifunctional family space where they could enjoy time together.
Our solution was to take out the side wall of the rear reception room, reconstruct the side return completely and join the two spaces to create a lateral kitchen dining space. Behind this space the old dining room, with less access to natural light, became a utility room, cloakroom and music room. We flipped the kitchen into the old reception room and lowered the floor to create one seamless room level with the garden. This gave the kitchen a huge ceiling height and meant we could increase the size of the French doors which open out onto the garden, making them very grand and a real focal point of the room.
The extension itself has a fully glazed roof to bring the most amount of light into the space, including electrically opening rooflights for ventilation. To avoid the dining room being overlooked by the neighbours upper windows, we designed a series of louvres made of oak to line the underside of the roof. These allow filtered light into the extension whilst maintaining a sense of privacy and enclosure. They are openable to allow the glass to be cleaned and we used them to inform the rest of the interior. The extension contrasts to the more traditional kitchen area with its high ceilings and ornate cornice, using oak panels as a lining around the walls. The opening into the kitchen forms a datum line, above which the oak is clad in battens to create texture and tie into design of the louvres.
A bench containing storage runs all the way around the dining room and a large pivot window frames views from the music room into the garden. The window can be fully opened to connect the dining room to the outside. The rear wall of the dining room is finished in natural clay plaster, continuing the warm earthy tones of the oak cladding.
Externally we used a traditional yellow stock brick so the extension feels like it belongs to the house, but we used the brick in a sawtooth bond, laying them at 45 degrees to create a triangular pattern which create interesting shadows throughout the day.


Scandi open plan living room in Other with white walls, light hardwood flooring and beige floors.


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This is an example of a medium sized scandinavian formal enclosed living room in Edinburgh with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, no tv and beige floors.
This is an example of a medium sized scandinavian formal enclosed living room in Edinburgh with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, no tv and beige floors.


Photo of a medium sized scandi living room in Other with white walls, medium hardwood flooring and brown floors.


Photo of a small scandinavian open plan living room feature wall in Cornwall with blue walls, light hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace, a metal fireplace surround, a freestanding tv and exposed beams.


Design: YAM Design Studio
Photo: Uliana Grishina / Photography
Inspiration for a scandi living room in London with grey walls, light hardwood flooring and beige floors.
Inspiration for a scandi living room in London with grey walls, light hardwood flooring and beige floors.


Inspiration for a scandinavian living room in London with white walls, medium hardwood flooring and brown floors.


Photo of a medium sized scandinavian formal open plan living room in Essex with white walls, light hardwood flooring, a wood burning stove, a brick fireplace surround and no tv.


Design ideas for a medium sized scandi open plan living room in Other with grey walls, laminate floors, no fireplace, no tv and brown floors.


Photo of a medium sized scandi formal enclosed living room in London with light hardwood flooring, grey walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and a wall mounted tv.


Photo of a scandinavian living room in London with grey walls, medium hardwood flooring, a standard fireplace and brown floors.


Scandinavian living room in London with white walls, light hardwood flooring and beige floors.


Photo of a scandi open plan living room with white walls, medium hardwood flooring, a wood burning stove, a metal fireplace surround, brown floors and exposed beams.
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