CLIFTON FLAT

Typology
Interior Refurbishment

Client
Private

Location
Bristol, UK

Interior Concept

Clover Studio was tasked with fully renovate a basement flat, stripping the flat back to it’s structural shell and giving it a reimagined interior design and layout. As an ode to the Danish client, the interior design approach was to combine Danish minimalism with the flat’s Victorian details – aiming to create a zen feel with a colourful and ornate Victorian twist. Call it Scandinavian eccentric. We wanted to add a journey in colour and architectural styles throughout the flat. From Victorian inspired at the entrance to minimalist at the rear.

Spatial Configuration

The ambition of the proposed interior plan was to give the compromised corridor space back to the rooms and make the flat into a sequence of generous rooms. The first room in the sequence starts with a take on the Victorian period of the flat, replacing cornicing and traditional architrave mouldings in the arrival room, then the design strips the flat of ornament as you walk through to the bedrooms at the rear, making the subsequent rooms minimalist in their appearance.

Existing Plan

Proposed Plan

Proposed Long Section

The east-facing Livingroom was painted in ice blue, which is amazingly crisp in morning light, and we paired this contemporary colour with classical panelling and Victorian cornicing. As a contrast we placed a table in the bay window - oiled in Bright Red Danish linseed oil to make the room pop.

As you progress into the kitchen, the design becomes more minimalist, but the colour becomes much bolder. We painted the kitchen in Orange to make the space feel vibrant and warm: to distract from the fact that it doesn’t have windows. We installed glass doors with reeded double-glazed glass to all rooms to pull light into the kitchen from the living room and bedrooms.

All rooms have bespoke cabinetry-walls as their defining feature. These also become more minimalist in their profiling as you walk through the flat from living room to bedrooms – from thicker chamfered frames in the living room to slimline square edges in the bedrooms. The bedrooms are the most zen and classically Danish “hygge.’’ In this case the calm natural tones and minimalist framing helped to balance the bolder colours of kitchen and Victorian features of the living room.

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