The fireplace alcove is one of the most common storage opportunities in London homes, and one of the most commonly mishandled. Walk into almost any Victorian terrace or Edwardian semi, and there’s a chimney breast sitting centrally in the reception room or bedroom, with two recesses on either side. Those recesses are often occupied by

Open a wardrobe door in a poorly lit bedroom, and the inside is in near-darkness. You can see the general shape of things, but finding a specific shirt among 20 similar ones means staring into a dim interior and hoping for the best. This isn’t a minor inconvenience — it’s a daily friction that adds

The most fitted wardrobe design starts from a standard set of assumptions: the person using it is standing upright, can reach comfortably to chest height, and can bend without difficulty. Those assumptions hold for a lot of people a lot of the time. But they start to break down with age, mobility changes, arthritis, back

Most people who commission a fitted wardrobe spend the most time thinking about the exterior — the finish, the door style, the handles. Then the wardrobe goes in, it looks exactly as planned, and within six months, the hanging rail is completely packed. There’s no room to slide anything along. Finding a specific shirt means