So excited to see Neil Dusheiko Architects published in Wallpaper with their Tilde House project!
Tilde House is a beautifully remodelled and extended Grade II listed Victorian house in the Canonbury Conservation Area in north London. The original semi-detached villa was built in the early 1840s, and is listed in part because of its elegant neo-classical detailing. The interior, however, was dark, dated and cramped.
On the ground floor, the layout has been opened up to create a flow through the house that better suits modern living. The dining room is a captivating space that acts as the bridge between the original house, the contemporary extension, and the garden. This space inspired the distinctive pleated roof design that folds and unfolds over the dining area and the kitchen, creating a shared visual language that brings the old and new parts of the house together. This folding motif – already referenced in the extension’s brickwork – continues in the herring-bone flooring and paving that flows through the kitchen and into the garden beyond, once again using architectural detail to stitch old and new together, and fostering graceful connections.