Mid-century Zero House in London imbued with "Kubrick feel"

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https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/05/zero-house-mid-century-renovation-london/











Timber ceilings and a fireplace clad in mahogany tiles feature in this London house, which its owners have renovated to honour the dwelling's mid-century roots and nod to the colour palette of Stanley Kubrick films. Located in north London's Stanmore, Zero House belongs to recording artists Ben Garrett and Rae Morris, whose former home in Primrose Hill is the Dezeen Award-winning Canyon House designed by Studio Hagen Hall.









Unlike their previous dwelling, Garrett and Morris updated Zero House themselves but adopted the same mid-century palette when creating its interiors. "The house was built between 1959 and 1961 by a Hungarian architect," said Garrett, who explained that the original design was informed by Californian Case Study Houses such as Charles and Ray Eames's 1949 home and design studio.









"It's a great example of a number of imaginative mid-century domestic houses dotted around metro-land," he told Dezeen. "Our main aim was to freshen it up relatively in keeping with the time but not to feel like we were living in a total time capsule." The pair maintained the matchbox timber ceilings that run throughout the two-storey home, which were stained with a dark reddish tone alongside stained wooden doors.









Slim mahogany tiles clad the floor-to-ceiling fireplace in the living room, which features the same micro-cement flooring found at Canyon House and opens out onto a lush garden. Garrett and Morris also maintained the home's many exposed brick walls and inserted geometric timber shelving that displays eclectic ornaments including amorphous vases and a colourful set of nesting dolls.

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1. Very nice house, well maintained inside and outside. Really love it. I'm getting a lottery ticket.

[IcyPeas]

2. Why? Why? Why? Old fashioned sinks that have a separate hot and cold faucet?

I can't stand these. You have to fill up the sink to wash your hands/face? It might look quaint but they are very impractical. Perhaps they are original to the house and they didnt want to update them. This house was built in 1959 though... even then these sinks seem Victorian. There are many houses on Britain that still have these sinks too. There is another photo above though with very modern sinks. Call me spoiled but I like warm water to come out of the faucet.