Project Background Brief

LLI Design have recently completed a total refurbishment of a 3 storey Victorian townhouse on a leafy residential road in Highgate. Their clients wanted to create a warm, comfortable home with modern touches. Although the house was in reasonable condition, the joinery and fittings throughout the house were dated with many of the period features stripped out and those that remained had not been maximised. The house lacked character and personality although it benefited from ‘good bones’, nicely proportioned rooms, a delightful garden and a handsome exterior.

LLI Design felt that more could be made of the period features, enhancing some and reinstating others to bring out more of the Victorian feel of the property. To enhance the interiors a new lighting scheme was designed and specified including new fittings and garden lighting. A Rako intelligent lighting system was installed in order to create moods, ambience and timed events internally and externally, controlled from wall mounted keypads and also by iPads / iPhones.

By subtle changes to the spaces and by adding texture, colour and interesting material choices LLI Design were able to create a warm, comfortable and welcoming family home, achieving a harmonious and calm aesthetic throughout with modern touches within a timeless design.

Favourite Features

LLI Design commissioned Nigel Tyas to produce a dramatic copper and glass pendant light in the stairwell that hung from the top floor ceiling down to the ground floor, giving a visual connection and really creating a wow factor.

Products Used

Being a period Victorian property a large proportion of the ceilings and walls had lath and plaster construction. Lath and plaster tends to be very brittle and can easily crumble during 1st fix works, so wherever possible invasive works had to be limited.

To this end Rako's wireless system suited the project perfectly as it enabled multiple intelligent circuits in the scheme without having to run them back to a central panel.