The Secret Garden Flat
Camberwell, London
The Secret Garden Flat shifts the emphasis of living away from a busy main road to a large garden behind
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The Secret Garden Flat won New London Architecture’s ‘Home of the Year’ at the 2023 Don’t Move. Improve! awards.
Needing more space for a family, with unaffordable property prices, and a reluctance to relocate, The Secret Garden Flat was self built on a limited budget. For a project that has cost £2500/m2 and provides an additional bedroom and a separate studio for two people to work in, this is outstanding value for money.
Before the build our garden and basement flat were disconnected, now indoors and outdoors interact in a way that makes them inseparable, providing outdoor family living space in the summer, a quiet and serene work space sheltered by neighbouring trees, and immersion in the changing seasons from the comfort and warmth of our new bedroom.
You can read further about The Secret Garden Flat here
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Situated behind a shop in a Victorian terrace on Camberwell Road, the original small awkward flat has been remodelled, shifting the emphasis of living away from a busy main road to the garden behind.
Self building with a palette of simple and modest materials that could be crafted with our own hands, a new bedroom and secluded garden studio have been added. These new additions now sit comfortably amongst the palimpsest of alterations and development to neighbouring buildings.
