Photography: courtesy of the Modern House
Cross-laminated timber, polished concrete and stainless steel shape this house in Walthamstow’s Orford Road conservation area, designed by London architecture practice AO-FT as both home and studio. Built on an infill plot along a former village high street, the project reinterprets the rhythm of neighbouring shopfronts through a layered façade of Siberian larch battens and slim vertical mullions.
Photography: courtesy of the Modern House
Photography: courtesy of the Modern House
Photography: courtesy of Modern House
Photography: courtesy of Modern House
Inside, the plan follows the proportions of a Victorian terrace while opening sightlines from the street through to the garden beyond. Spruce-lined walls and ceilings run throughout, with integrated storage built directly into the joinery. On the ground floor, polished-concrete floors extend beneath a sequence of living, kitchen and dining spaces, where stainless-steel worktops, birch cabinetry and built-in concrete seating sit alongside tall dual-aspect glazing.
The upper floors contain three bedrooms finished with the same restrained palette of spruce joinery and terrazzo. Built-in shutters line the secondary bedrooms, while the principal suite occupies the top floor behind a full wall of wardrobes and an en suite partially screened by timber partitioning.
The garden was conceived as an extension of the architecture, planted with evergreen species and anchored by a detached studio clad to match the main house. It’s listed with the Modern House for £1.5 million.
