Ornately corniced ceilings had been preserved and painted pastel inside this indifferent Edwardian home in southeast London, which native agency 2LG Studio has renovated for a returning consumer.

Set within the leafy residential space of Forest Hill, the home on Sunderland Street belongs to some who wanted house for his or her three younger youngsters to develop and play.

“Having designed this couple’s earlier residence, we had a powerful sense of their tastes and needed to evolve that for them on this home,” 2LG Studio founders Jordan Cluroe and Russell Whitehead informed Dezeen.

“We needed to carry out their characters by emboldening their love of color and discovering methods to construct sample and pleasure into the materiality of the house,” the duo added.

“The intent right here was to respect the interval parts of the constructing, while reflecting the fashionable model of the household who reside there.”

All through the home, playful parts are in stability with a extra critical aesthetic.

As a substitute of treating the house’s elaborate ceiling mouldings individually – as custom dictates – 2LG Studio utilized a colour-block philosophy and painted them in the identical pastel tones used throughout the higher partitions and ceilings.

The studio drew on a variety of references for the inside, from Eighties colors to Italian design parts reminiscent of marble and Murano glass lighting, all the way in which to the Scandinavian influences seen within the pure supplies and minimalist strategy to furnishing.

Creating affect within the entrance corridor is a hand-printed wallpaper, designed by 2LG Studio with long-term collaborator Custhom Studio and used right here in a bespoke calamine-pink colourway that is repeated within the connecting areas all through the home, in addition to within the rear residing space.

“It creates a welcoming, human really feel as quickly as you enter,” the design workforce mentioned.

This ballet-slipper color is paired with a brighter sweet pink, bringing calm and heat to the general scheme.

Pink-heavy palettes have grow to be a signature for 2LG, additionally mirrored within the pure pink undertones of the extra-wide Douglas fir floorboards that function all through the home alongside a gray poured-resin ground within the kitchen.

“The floorboards set the tone with a nod to Scandi minimalism, including a pure soul all through that unites the bolder parts,” mentioned 2LG Studio.

Within the kitchen, sky-blue cabinetry is used alongside marble counter tops and splashbacks, with arched varieties uniting the 2 finishes whereas pink parts reminiscent of bar stools pop in opposition to this calm backdrop.

“The colors are a key a part of the environment and identification of this home,” mentioned 2LG. “The blues will get deeper and bolder as you progress upstairs into the research and the household lavatory.”

“Major purple particulars give construction to the color palette in the lounge. Pastel inexperienced within the child’s room is serene and contemporary, warmed up with a mixture of wooden tones and lotions.”

The challenge options bespoke joinery together with a playhouse on stilts in one of many youngsters’ rooms alongside current 2LG items such because the Luca bedhead within the loft bed room and the Tilda couch, each designed for London furnishings firm Love Your Dwelling and upholstered right here in Kvadrat x Raf Simons cloth.

“The fitted parts of the furnishings give a way of coherent design and performance to the areas while the basic design items carry a curated gallery really feel, not not like a recent luxurious vogue retailer,” mentioned 2LG Studio.

Varied recycled supplies present textural curiosity all through the home, amongst them the recycled plastic wall lights in the lounge by Spark and Bell.

2LG Studio additionally added a pink Foresso prime made utilizing waste wooden chips and resin to the eating desk, whereas the bespoke lavatory cupboard was made utilizing leftover Douglas fir floorboards with recycled plastic particulars by UK firm Smile Plastics.

Since Cluroe and Whitehead based their design observe in 2014 beneath the identify 2 Pretty Gays, the studio has accomplished a variety of residential tasks within the British capital.

Amongst them is the couple’s own residence and workplace – to which they just lately added a backyard pavilion with a “contact of Beetlejuice” – and an equally colour-led renovation of a interval property within the Heaver Property conservation space.

The images is by Megan Taylor.