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Roof Terrace, Little Venice
“A small but highly versatile and welcoming space, where every detail is considered to maximise it's potential. A verdant, cosy and private haven as featured on Gardenista.”
A roof terrace garden design as part of a full refurb of a Victorian Mews House, nestled down a quiet cobbled street in the Little Venice area of Maida Vale in London. Initially presenting two design layouts for at this small but perfectly formed roof terrace measuring approximately 8sqm. Working alongside, architects, the construction team and the interior designer this space is not without its challenges including multiple planning applications, having to remove and replace supporting beam structure and lowering an interior ceiling to make space for the actual terrace.
Hard landscaping and furniture are kept in tactile and light coloured materials, whilst planting and soft furnishings come in darker plummy shades ranging from purply browns to the lightest pinks as requested by the client and in keeping with the interiors. Planters proposed to be made in galvanised zinc emulating the new exterior of the house and the limed oak millboard decking has a discreet grain similar to the colouring to the interior floor, connecting the inside with the outside terrace.
For the final design the furniture and surrounding trellis were made in white washed sapele to fit the compact space, altogether giving the materials used a clean but slightly aged feel. The bespoke sofa has plush cushions made from Perennials luxury outdoor fabrics.
Planting consists of lush evergreen foliage from the likes of Euphorbias and a selection of ferns with pops of colour througout all seasons from bulbs and perrenials such as Agapanthus, Verbena, Geraniums and Tulips. A colour changing Clematis wraps around the whole space providing a lush fragrant privacy screen. Subtle spotlights are placed in the planters . Any irrigation and leads are discretely hidden under the millboard decking and whilst still easily accessible.
With the design aesthetic so closely linked to the interiors this terrace is a true extension to the home.