Pictures: Nick Dearden
About Studio
Emil Eve Architects is an award-winning East-London-based studio, established in 2009 by Ross and Emma Perkin. We create imaginative and provoking buildings and areas for individuals who love structure – from design-focused owners to creatively-driven builders and business purchasers.
We’ve a deep appreciation for each historic and up to date structure and intensive expertise of mixing the 2. Our numerous portfolio contains housing, cultural buildings, workspace, and hospitality initiatives, and exhibition design.
Revolutionary, bold, and pragmatic, we get pleasure from problem-solving and specialise in difficult briefs – from acquiring advanced planning consents to working sensitively with listed buildings. A dedication to sustainability informs all of our work.

The home’s entrance options an uncovered timber construction, exterior cladding, inside joinery, and fixtures, all of which mix to create a unified shade scheme in and out.

Pure mild is directed all through the day by tall glass doorways and deep-framed timber home windows, which additionally kind view traces via and throughout the home.

The spacious kitchen and eating space, which opens to a walled yard, has somewhat inset courtyard.

An image of a spotless kitchen with excessive glass doorways and deep-framed timber home windows that permit in pure mild.

A nice upper-floor room with a inexperienced wall, a spotless picket ground, and bookshelves.

The bed room’s permeable lime plaster partitions present shifting mild all through the day with a fragile texture.

An in depth side-view sketch of the beautiful dwelling.
The extension and refurbishment of this four-bed home ship areas that really feel intimate but expansive, with custom-built joinery all through designed by Emil Eve. Sustainable Douglas fir varieties the uncovered timber construction, exterior cladding, inside joinery, and fittings, making a cohesive palette in and out.
On the bottom ground, a piano room leads via a small inset courtyard to the beneficiant kitchen and eating area which seems out onto a walled again backyard. The rear extension is splayed to maximise photo voltaic orientation. Tall glazed doorways and deep-framed timber home windows direct pure mild all through the day and create view traces via and throughout the home.
Within the courtyard, a hid mirror between cladding slats visibly extends the outside area and displays mild deep into the plan. Upstairs, a zinc-clad roof extension creates a vivid new bed room with en suite.
Pure supplies carry heat and a way of calm to the house, which was designed for a younger couple (and their two beloved pet cats). The breathable lime plaster partitions give a tender texture to the altering mild all through the day, and earthy terracotta tiles within the again backyard complement the colour and grain of the Douglas fir.
Shut collaboration between the architects and builder allowed for refined detailing within the uncovered timber construction, cladding, and joinery. The bespoke crafted parts embrace an extra-deep window seat that curves alongside the total size of a wall to kind an prolonged eating bench and the glazed display wall which connects the piano room to the corridor and stairs.
Sustainability was a tenet for the challenge, with a give attention to low embodied carbon supplies and breathable building.