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Small rooms, long views
A small flat feels larger when you can see from one end to the other. Here is how we plan for it.
Small flats feel smaller when every room is a box. They feel larger when you can see from one end to the other.
Plan for the long view
We look for the longest possible line through a plan and protect it — no tall furniture, no changes in floor, doors aligned on the axis.
Even forty square metres can have an enfilade.
Elise Vermeulen
Founder, Enfilade Studio
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The case for fewer doors
Every door is a decision. We remove most of them, and make the ones we keep worth walking through.
Materials
Limewash, honestly
It cracks, it clouds, it changes with the weather. That is exactly why we keep specifying it.
Lighting
Lighting a hallway you actually walk through
Hallways are where a house is read in sequence. We light them like a gallery, not a corridor.