Linden Residence

Linden Residence began as a series of small, cellular rooms with good bones and very little light. The brief was simple: open the plan without losing quiet, and give a couple who love hosting a home that moves easily between an ordinary Tuesday and a full house.

We removed two non-structural partitions to create a single living, dining and kitchen volume, then used joinery rather than walls to define the rest. A low sideboard, a change in floor finish and a run of tall storage quietly separate entry, lounge and dining without closing anything in.

The palette is deliberately restrained — warm plaster walls, pale oak, honed stone and woven textiles — so the changing daylight does the decorating. Brass details and a pair of sculptural pendants add warmth without noise, and every piece of furniture was chosen for how it lives, not how it photographs.