Most city flats have at least one room with a single small window. We stopped fighting it and started designing for it.
Stop chasing brightness.
A room with one window will never be as bright as a room with three. Painting it white only makes the dim corners look grey.
We go the other way: deeper colours, matte surfaces and one strong patch of light that the room is arranged around.
Point everything at the window.
The chair faces the light, the mirror sits beside it rather than opposite, and the darkest corner gets storage instead of a seat.
It sounds simple, and it is. The hard part is resisting the urge to add a second lamp to every corner.
Let the evening do the rest.
After sunset, a one-window room becomes the cosiest room in the flat. Plan its lamps as carefully as its daylight.
The rooms our clients end up loving most are rarely the brightest ones.
Planning a room?
Tell us about the space. We will start with the light.
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