Notting Hill - Colville Houses London W11

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This beautiful four-bedroom apartment occupies three storeys of a Victorian house on a quiet, no-through road near Notting Hill's bustling Portobello Market. Concealed behind a pink-painted stucco façade, the apartment is wonderfully open-plan; it is currently owned by the tapestry artist Teresa Hastings, who has harnessed its flexibility for both easy everyday living and for creative endeavours. At the rear is a verdant garden, with leafy trees and tall, privacy-enhancing brick walls.











The Tour

The apartment's private front door opens into a generous hallway. From here, the living space is revealed, with its impressively tall, cornice-wrapped ceilings and elegantly aged white-washed timber floorboards. There are plenty of open bookshelves, along with a warming gas fire. This room is open to the kitchen beyond, with its freestanding concrete worktops, flecked with marble dust. There is a range-style oven with gas hobs set centrally, and more open shelves for crockery and glassware. Tall French doors open onto a balcony, which in turn leads down to the garden below.











At the rear of the ground floor is a study, which makes use of the same material palette as the living room. A solid concrete desk has been added here, with open shelves and exposed timbers above. Dual-aspect windows draw in plenty of natural light. Stairs with storage beneath descend to the lower-ground floor, where the principal bedroom lies. The former has a freestanding traditionally tinned copper bath with a splashback formed by layering perspex over a silk hanging, along with a separate WC. A steel sink set into white concrete continues the material motif from the storey above and is also backdropped by an identical perspex-fronted silk.











There are a further two bedrooms on this level; one has access to the garden, and both are appointed in the home's characteristically serene scheme. These rooms are served by a separate bathroom with a beautiful charcoal-grey freestanding bathtub on a raised concrete platform beneath an American oak floor flowing from the hallway. Opposite, a deep cupboard is useful for storing linens and towels. A fourth bedroom lies on the uppermost level, along with convenient eaves-set storage.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Needs more pots

(of course not)

Looks comfortable. Thanks for these interesting looks at interiors and architecture.