A few weeks ago, I posted about a garage turned gorgeous mini house in Seattle. Recently, I found another great example of how a small garage space can be turned into a functional and chic little home. Check out this gorgeous home created by owner Owner Darren Isaacs and Knott Architects in the heart of Camden in the UK.
The upstairs includes the living and dining space, an open floor plan which uses high-reaching bookshelves (with a bespoke ladder) to maximize space. The TV and dishes are hidden behind the tall, white cabinets. The space has been maximized by putting cupboards in the eaves, hiding appliances, and hanging pots and pans from suspending beams. It's hard to believe that the main room is only 85 square feet!
The staircase was made from a single ribbon of cold, rolled steel, sitting next to the beautiful calf-skin LCW chair by Charles and Ray Eames.
The bedroom sits downstairs where it has an ensuite wetroom (shilded by frosted glass) and innovative sliding wardrobe that also serves as a wall divider. Every little inch of space seems to be maximized to its potential. What was once a garage, and later a couple of interconnecting bedsits, was beautifully converted into a adorable little abode. Another genius example of how to get a lot out of what, at first glace, seems like a little.
For more images and the full article, head on over to The Guardian.
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Comments (26)
Anyone selling a garage on the cheap in Brooklyn? I'm loving these spaces. Want!
So this space is only 8.5 ft X 10 ft. Hhmmm....
I'm guessing 85 sq feet is the footprint, or a misprint. This is a beautiful airy open space with great details!
Um UK metric system, probably supposed to be sq. meters.
Maybe 85 meters? Closer to 850 feet, which is much more plausible.
There is no way this is 85 square feet (or as Adskan pointed out, 8.5x10 feet). Since it's the UK perhaps it's supposed to be 85 square meters?
I'm pretty sure this is 85 square meters, not 85 square feet. The pictures don't make sense, otherwise.
their table measures at least 2 meters long, that flat has to be 85 sq meters (85 sq feet = less than 8 sq meter, the size of a big bathroom). I wish my 50 sq meters looked that spacious...
Meters, not feet.
85 sq feet: the size of a very small storage unit.
85 sq meters: the size of a (normal) one-bedroom flat.
No kiddin', y'all. Such obvious (to most of us) mistakes are among the downsides of the "instant publishing" brought our way by digital technologies. No proofreaders (apparently), no fact checkers (apparently), very little by way of editorial filter (apparently).
Gorgeous! I know they're trying to prevent scratches to those beautiful floors, but there has to be a better-looking solution for the Eames' LCW.
Not quite so tiny at just over 900 sq ft. very lovely though.
This is a very nice space and not at all small, considering. It's bigger than a lot of flats!
To be fair, the mistake is in the guardian article... which is weird, since I didn't think the UK used feet....
ok we all get it...feet/meters blah blah blah.
Moving on, I love this space!! The white. The black. The wood.
The Stairs. The Chair! The hair on the chair... Love it all.
So lovely! I would gladly live in a 'garage' if it was like this.
(And I can't help but see the typo in the final sentence....glace...glance)
@nitagee- exactly what I was thinking! Those cups are to be used on pianos that weigh a ton. We use little felt pads that stick onto the bottoms of chair feet & are invisible.
Totally awesome....you have me a great idea
Except this is in england where this is called a "Mews" and they are super cool with a price tag to match
This is quite big, not small.
The UK confusingly uses feet AND metres. They have spent around 40 years trying to switch from system to the other....
The idea that this is some industrious use of an old garage is ludicrous. If you want a mews house in the middle of Camden you'd be hard pressed to get much change from a million pounds, and then there's the architect fees, and the materials, and the obligatory expensive chairs and so on. It's nothing like someone turning a rundown garage in the garden into a cute little house.
Furthermore it's not at all small by British standards and certainly not by London standards! My friend lived in what was effectively a cupboard for six months in Camden before they upped the rent and she couldn't afford it any more.
Anyway rant aside it's a very nice transformation, but let's not kid ourselves.
Firstly, if the errors in this post have indeed come straight from The Guardian, US readers might be amused to know that that paper is nicknamed The Grauniad because of its numerous mistakes. Secondly, I think the steel staircase is cold rolled steel, not rolled steel that is also cold (although I imagine it probably is quite chilly on the feet). And yes, we do use both imperial and metric measurements here, because my parents' generation and up can't quite let go of feet and inches, and they've been teaching the rest of us.
And come on, that was way more than just a "small garage space" to begin with. Like Ruthtooth says, this project will have cost a huge amount of money at every stage.
if you ever have a small room next to another room knock it down, and make the twice as large
I'm an interior designer and that building needs some work on the out side. it looks like its an ancient ruin.