Go With The Flow

By reconfiguring their period home, Lucy and Andrew Smith have created a harmonious layout filled with colour, character and natual light

- Ruth Farnsworth Eastman

Lucy and Andrew Smith had lived in their London home for 12 years before undertaking a comprehensive renovation, which began after the youngest of their five boys went to university. With busy jobs as television producers, the couple worked closely with interior designer Melanie Paskin, who oversaw the whole project, and engaged refurbishment specialists BTL Property. Lucy’s priorities were to maximise light, create through views and add colour, and she was inspired by visiting the home of the project’s architect Robert Wilson of Granit Architects. ‘Robert’s house had extraordinary windows and lots of light,’ she says.

In the large kitchen-diner, a wall of Crittall windows offers views over the garden created by Sam Butler Garden Design, seamlessly connecting inside with out. ‘I’d seen the windows while working in Denmark and I loved them,’ says Lucy. And, to keep the look light, she chose pale window frames instead of the classic black.