Our clients, for whom Charlotte Rowe had already created two roof terraces elsewhere, had bought a converted Victorian school on the Regent’s Canal in Islington.  Extensive improvements were to be undertaken to the property including creating a new sub-basement for an open-plan kitchen with polished floors beneath the raised ground floor of the house, giving access to a 110 sq m South East-facing garden on two levels.

The garden design brief was to make an elegant contemporary-style external space visible from all floors of the property, with two sitting areas, one at the lower level for the morning sun and a second at the upper level, as well as a dining area.  The stairs up to the upper level were designed asymmetrically to one side, to allow space for the built-in seating area at the lower level.