Salmen House
Office S & M
Bookending a mid-century terrace in Plaistow this three bed, three bath house makes effective use of a tight corner plot. Office S & M designed Salmen House to be built and let by professional landlord My Property & Home, who had purchased an end of terrace garden suitable for a two-storey infill house.
The client’ s brief was to produce a low cost house, which was to be her first new build development after having previously focused on refurbishing flats. She started her development career after a serious skiing accident put her in a coma for 5 weeks, and she used her compensation to get on the property ladder, and into development. During the process of design, we proposed cost effective, but high quality materials and design solutions to propose something special on a budget.
The house is generous to the street, rather than being overly polite to its mish-mash context of late Victorian, mid-century, and post big-bang housing. The millennial pink exterior breaks away from the traditional design and biscuit-colour of rented accommodation. The complimentary external colours, salmon pink and lush green, visually push apart to create a feeling of greater volume- the pink moving forwards and the green stepping back. The seamless stippled render and textured terrazzo have a material richness to them, catching changing shadows on the long flank wall throughout the afternoon. Surrounding the windows, polished terrazzo reveals bounce additional light inside, as well as mirroring the window details found
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