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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