An Architect's Radical Rethink Of A London Flat

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Chip shops and Big Brother might seem like unexpected references to find on an interiors moodboard - but not for Alex Holloway. The co-founder of Holloway Li, a London-based design consultancy, drew upon high-street and pop-culture visuals when designing his home in Highbury. The apartment, which he shares with his partner, Elle Parmar Jenkins, the furniture dealer behind Goods In, is a testbed for some of his most experimental ideas, which include having a bathtub in the living room…
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@mowcius Год назад

It would have been great to see a floorplan. Quite difficult to understand the space from the limited angles that we're shown in the video.

@ohthechitchat Год назад

It’s a big room and they threw everything in it. Bath, desk, lounge then kitchen, in all four corners 🤨

@Tattieboggle Год назад

Ahhaahha golden!

@designunlimited6215 Год назад

I read elsewhere that they hadn’t originally intended to make everything open plan and the bath was intended to be in the bedroom in that corner. By the time they realised what beautiful natural light they could get if they took down the bedroom walls, the plumbing had been done so they decided to just go with it. It’s quirky, but fun. As for the resale option, I’m sure it would not take much effort to reinstate the walls if required. Would love to have seen a longer video, and a floor plan would be great. Love your channel Modern House - such interesting places so full of personality. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@jimjimgl3 Год назад

Usually, when an architect is interviewed he or she will feel the need to heap philosophical layer upon layer for why a design was made. But in this case it felt, refreshingly so, that they made decisions because the just liked how it looked.

@John_Wood_ Год назад

neither of them are architects.

@jimjimgl3 Год назад

Yes, you are correct. Creative Director at his firm Holloway Li (architecture + interiors)

@arghjayem Год назад

Honest vanity? I think I prefer the philosophical justifications for BS design it’s easier to make fun of. Instead I just pity them for being as shallow as a tinker’s bath (that’s in the living space full exposed to the neighbours’ view).

@hannahgohya Год назад

that kitchen is GORGEOUS, the accessories and that TABLE… WOW. you can just tell that they cook and really love hosting… i love everything about this house.

@squirrel8161 Год назад

It reminds me of living in a cockroach-ridden loft in BK as a student a few years ago. It doesn’t feel comfy to me, but they seem like a lovely couple, and I love their take on how they see their sense of style as constantly evolving

@natashafigueroa9198 Год назад

I love their bold use of materials, especially the muted wall colour colliding with the steel kitchen. It is warm and cool at the same time! I also have a disco ball in my home.

@CharlotteMagdeliene Год назад

Gosh lots of negative comments- if the lovely couple reads these- I’m sure you don’t even care! But your place is fun, inviting, feels right for itself and you both. Cheers from Hudson NY. 🥂

@JudgeHill Год назад

All the worst ideas from 1970s NY lofts do not a "radical rethink" make.

@mikewingert-savagelyerudite Год назад

Correct. Trendy idiots.

@yastech7183 Год назад

Mannnnn young people putting their own money into beautiful creativity. They reference new York loft so it's not like they're pretending. It's about being bold enough to make the moves in a different place at a different time. Let's support them.

@squirrel8161 Год назад

A bit harsh. There are some really nice elements, in my opinion. I do think the Brooklyn loft idea is overdone and a bit fantastical. Having lived in a real one, it’s not that great - almost all of them are poorly converted factories with awful management. But in theory it’s a massive space at a great price point which sort of meets a few modernist standards. Their attitude is really cool and to be honest I’m bored of chandeliers and chinoiserie, even if I’m a bit cynical of the loft ideal.

@MTMF.london Год назад

Love the kitchen but the bath, out in the open living area? I am no prude but it would bother me if I were watching TV or eating/cooking and someone was taking a bath. The novelty would soon wear out pretty quick.

@like-the-cut-of-your-jib Год назад

The RESIN TABLE and SHOWER SCREEN - OMG. Love it SOOO much!!!

@chantik Год назад

Looks like no insulation and only single-glazed windows. No energy efficiency. Good luck on winter!

@michellepauline1043 Год назад

Bath tub in the living room?....no thanks

@carolz5090 Год назад

Yeah, I’m like 5 seconds in and I’m wondering why someone would need a bath behind their desk? What’s happening there…😬

@viktorreiter8811 Год назад

@@carolz5090 they have a separate shower so it's cool i think. a bathroom can have two purposes: simple washing yourself and toiletry, the other is chilling (reading a book in the bath, listening to music, taking a bath together etc). so they have two areas for the two functions. this is more like the equivalent of your outdoor pool, rather than a regulat bath.

@carolz5090 Год назад

@@viktorreiter8811 I was joking.

@lsamoa Год назад

@@viktorreiter8811 Good point

@elainejohnson796 Год назад

There's no way this pretentious asshattery works. It simply sits there gathering dust and ironically taking up a lot of 'space'. But yeah, as long as this couple think they're reinventing wheels and doing something new etc etc.

@arlenehutchinson9259 5 месяцев назад

As an avid lover of baths 🛁 I'm always surprised to see them in rooms other than a dedicated bathroom 🚻 There is a smell with plumbing no matter how you choose to clean. Once the lovely bubbles disappear there is the smell of stale water 💧 🤷🏾‍♀️

@rihosims Год назад

omg so radical. it has a kitchen and living room. and some tables and chairs and cabinets. never seen that before.

@OscarANM Год назад

It looks really cool, liked the kitchen and the furniture. I think if you get rid of the bath you can have a nice spot for a reading nook. Btw, very good-looking couple!

@nmaurok Год назад

This would get tiring in about a week...

@Iconology Год назад

Can everyone calm down. They didn’t design the space with an intention to flip it. It’s their home and they like it so that’s all that matters. Is it conventional? Absolutely not. But glad to see some different design ideas instead of a white box with scandi wood.

@kalliste01 Год назад

"We needed that evening sun in the living room far more than we needed the bath to have privacy" ... you didn't need the bath at all 😂

@user-hsb6Aknzue85d Год назад

Everything here is up me alley - stainless steel kitchen, space age furnitures, recycled materials. Simply amazing for me

@odalissk Год назад

I can only see the red flags everywhere

@TheHiawatha Год назад

I love everything about it! And it is comfortable - find comfort often sacrificed for style.

@vilmatownley Год назад

Changing everything depending on what you like at the moment is a very wasteful approach to home decor.

@chanhenri9172 Год назад

I am fm Hong Kong, very inspiring design, can imagine very enjoyable while bath and TV together 🎉

@BsktImp Год назад

Five years give or take and we'll see these two on _Grand Designs_ with a £1.5M 800 m² home on a plot in leafy Surrey lol. I reckon it'd be pretty awesome.

@masonldn8647 Год назад

Bath whilst having dinner . They host parties in the bathroom, interesting

@donnaallgaier-lamberti3933 Год назад

How do you keep all that stainless steal clean and without finger proof? I just got a new stainless steel fridge and my husband leaves fingerprints and food all over it. It drives me crazy!

@kokohale Год назад

The brushed/patterned parts don't tend to cling onto fingerprints visibly. Like, the more matte the steel is, the less maintenance needed.

@janetmacdonald8650 Год назад

New husband? :)

@coconutmax6209 Год назад

Awful!

@Dani-hd1xn Год назад

I would love to know more about how they designed and sourced that kitchen - it's a dream!

@reneesmith695 Год назад

Definitely not for everyone….going to be hard to sell when the time comes.

@MLA0686 11 месяцев назад

I loooooove this apt 😭

@mildredhighcock7333 Год назад

If you have guests wanting to use the bath?? Or is there a shower somewhere else? Would've been nice to see the bedroom/other rooms - unless they sleep on the dining room table

@dogcatdogable Год назад

he mentioned the shower screen

@wheredoducksgo Год назад

They showed both the shower and the bedroom near the end of the video.

@morticiagomez6166 Год назад

@@wheredoducksgo I blinked and I missed the bedroom. The OP must’ve blinked twice and missed them both! It was such a quick viewing, more like a flash viewing. 😅

@NecroSonic1 Год назад

The chairs were used in public schools in Denmark in the mid to late 1990s if I recall.

@xx-xt4rg Год назад

Might be a great design for them but when you go to resell an OPEN BATHROOM and now down to one bedroom means more difficult to sell and less resale value.

@fayepeden1059 5 месяцев назад

love the space but I'd have it without bath. I hate baths but love the triple aspect. I am about to remove wall between my two tiny bedrooms to open up the space and all my friends tell me I am devaluing the property. If I sell I can put up a stud wall in a better place from where brick wall currently is. Or perhaps next owner will enjoy the open space as much as I expect to.....

@donnab.333 Год назад

Blue a primary color & Orange a secondary color; the opposites go well together depending on how you use them. Their living quarters are cute.

@Elfin990 Год назад

Beautiful walls, light and choice of furniture. The bath is an odd choice, but they seem to like it 🤷🏾‍♀️

@Ellierua Год назад

No need for the bath tub if they've a shower. That would be a nicer desk area as the desk looks a bit cluttered. Otherwise lovely kitchen, table and colours.

@luckynyaa2826 Год назад

In Europe Bathtub became luxury item. If you can use it.

@kelly33SR Год назад

Beautiful!

@m.ch4rmaland3r10 Год назад

Very unique and beautiful colour furniture. I have feeling this will need be readjusted again especially if they want to resell it

@charlieb7728 Год назад

The energy they had together felt off… not sure I love this one

@georgeszurbach444 Год назад

The bath will have to go eventually.

@TheAnasthetic Год назад

Trying too hard..............

@velvetamerika2253 Год назад

amazing!!

@warranbrindle1848 Год назад

@the modern house - What are the objects in a row top left shelf in the kitchen as you look square on?

@elainejohnson796 Год назад

I deliberately avoid saying 'the space' ever, as every time I hear it it makes me want to gouge my ears out.

@TheClairesKnee Год назад

Agreed. I heard a woman recently comment that it was a nice view from the window space.

@lornamarie5544 Год назад

It takes balls to do that, I don’t think I could with such a small place, bedrooms are expensive losing one here seems crazy unless money is no object for you. But I like how he’s made the space work.

@uniqloboi9800 Год назад

Nice thing to store your shoes on the stairs

@martemis Год назад

Nope. Sorry.

@melindadouglas1673 Год назад

I don’t think a completely open floor plan works at all. They may like it but good luck trying to sell it!

@Jojoeyjo Год назад

I do love the kitchen and the orange and blue work better than you would think but the bath position is a big NO for me.

@dextermorgan318 Год назад

Really beautiful, would really wanna know how they achieved that aged look on the wall Only thing I don't like is the tv in the corner

@OrendaDesignStudio Год назад

Beautiful 🥰🥰🥰🥰.

@cs2181 Год назад

Why is everybody hating so much? It's not for everyone, but I think it looks beautiful!

@kev9385 Год назад

What’s difference between Flat and Apartment

@Moanapour2991 Год назад

I have MIXED FEELINGS

@morticiagomez6166 Год назад

I’d like to see their bedroom. I love the stainless steel kitchen and dining table set and shower screen! I think the bathtub has taken on a very central spot in the room …. Which makes it the main feature of that room . It takes away from the beauty of other objects, like that stunning dining table. Maybe have some sort of screen in front of it when guests come over (like that resin screen?) or maybe cover it with a wooden box that serves as an extra table? I don’t know? 🤷‍♀️. It’s just too “in your face”. I love the concept though , for tiny house living, you have to think outside the box! Which this guy did!!

@beatajurga5498 Год назад

Very unique and beautiful - congrats! May I ask what kind of lamp (the big green-white one) is this?

@quietcell Год назад

Well I like the bath in the lounge.

@Jaaammmbbbooo Год назад

Tell me you don't want children without telling me you don't want children.

@pinguaina Год назад

They are great!

@mariabanholzer5960 Год назад

Strange the bath in the living room..... maybe Exciting for the owner..... I guess.....

@Westlake72 Год назад

Poor guy can't even afford paint for the walls.

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@imianco8079 Год назад

beautiful & personal!!

@nongroupthought5076 Год назад

Well done to the guys for their selection of products in the house and design experiments. I wish them well, more so I wish everybody had access to bigger space where they can fully expend their ideas. This video will be very inspirational for small living style audiences in somewhere like china and Japan.

@gianni.santi. Год назад

Digging the unapologetic originality

@haret0n Год назад

beautiful young woman with great personal style. the flat. and the guy. not so much.

@John_Wood_ Год назад

@@frenchprovincial9602 shes a pretender

@lisadooley2794 Год назад

Love the character

@nadialodomiri3888 Год назад

I can see nothing radical about this. Their flat is clearly quite small. Putting a bath tub into an open plan kitchen/diner is a wrong move. At least they could have chosen a quirkier shape/material for the bath tub.

@nagolhayze9366 Год назад

So basically you live in a kebab shop with a bath ... 😂

@helloworldhello530 7 месяцев назад

Personally if my boyfriend showed me a floor plan of our future apartment with a bathtub in the living room I would dump him the kitchen arches are really amazing as are the dining chairs, but the orange is too much on the eyes and like the rest of the apartment, feels more about looks than practicality. this seems like someone with a lot of money to burn

@andgo1400 Год назад

Fun,fun,fun.

@miikana Год назад

Blinken heck, I don't like the idea of the bathtub where it is but I also think in this space it is such a cool idea argh, I wanted to dislike this video but I think the colours were great, I like that there was that recognition of the stainless steel patterns associated with fish n chip shops etc I really liked this video and layout and the resin table, looked soooooo cool compared to the cheap MDF dinning table I have which I cover with a linen table cloth because I hate it so much but needed something cheap and quickly so yeah this was such a cool video for me!

@tricialow217 Год назад

It's either an A or a F type of home

@admin.wfh.stanaccount Год назад

That guy! What a DISH 😍

@jossfan Год назад

Sorry, not keen on baths anywhere but the bathroom.

@tiffanycurtis4794 Год назад

She looks like Angelina Jolie😄 this is unique I love the kitchen 🔥

@tomc-d8491 Год назад

So, it's literally just the bath then? Radical.

@aminadaliyoucef7007 Год назад

😂I I love this modèle khanks for vidéo

@ViktorVaughan Год назад

Beautifully finished but not a fan of the kitchen at all

@MrRaj200 Год назад

By the way its definitely not an apartment, it's a loft. But really stunning.

@jcs3330 Год назад

Really nice conversation. It is just a shame that so many people (like myself) invest in our homes, in this case apartments, and yet the UK government have not even addressed or suggested the abolishment of the dreadful 'lease hold'. Thus, only the freeholder of the lease continues to benefit long term from all our hard work and financial investment.

@aminadaliyoucef7007 Год назад

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@ancaas7945 Год назад

A while ago, I wanted a bathtub in my bedroom, and not the bathroom. So I booked a city break at a hotel that had one. I turned back home and put the bathtub in the bathroom. While interesting, it's not at all practical to have a bathtub elsewhere than the designated place, aka bathroom. Exception might be an outdoor one.

@pseudonim4158 Год назад

Indeed the practical aspects are important, although Is a nice place to bathe when nobody is around because of the light and view, when someone is around and you have to shave and stuff it looses it's poetry:)

@krysiadavis3253 Год назад

When I was a child (1950s), our bath was in our tiny kitchen, under a removable work surface - radical now perhaps, slum then

@aminadaliyoucef7007 Год назад

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@paul.oregan Год назад

😮

@kaleidoscopegang Год назад

Very middle class.

@elainejohnson796 Год назад

Hardly. Hipster student types trying too hard.

@mlc2158 Год назад

😍

@brigittahoffmann9283 Год назад

Funny, because I have came in the UK and then moved in London but other than during 4.5 years of living there I just paid high rents and had not even a start into doing architecture, as a European citizen, graduated in architecture. Plus the constant unsafety of their system and the gross unethical behavior of all their "best" recruitment offices, that put you on the streets repeatedly.. Saying that this is how "things are" £!!!! I also have had to take 2x loans from banks, first in my lifetime, as they constantly were saying that they have jobs, but none has been ever offered to me. I have received underpaid jobs for short periods of time and unannounced lay offs, plus I have paid in total with my husband around 60k in rents and taxes for the last 6 years. Never been offered a job in architecture, just fussed and impacts!!! Funny how this video is showing a whole other world than the reality!!!!