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A tan leather armchair against a deep teal wall, beside a fluted screen and a low side table.

WORK — PROJECT 09 OF 09

FLOOR AREA M²

Bakkehus

Vestbyen, Aalborg — completed February 2025

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Location
Vestbyen, Aalborg
Completed
February 2025
Area
88 m² on one floor
Scope
Interior, joinery, lighting, styling

A north-facing flat that had been painted white to fix the light, which it did not. Colour did.

MATERIAL SCHEDULE

A hand holding a pen over a printed floor plan of the ground floor.
The flat as drawn — one dark wall, on purpose
FLOORS
Smoked oak, 190 mm, natural oil
WALLS
Deep teal distemper to the sitting room
JOINERY
Fluted oak screen, unstained
WORKTOP
Honed basalt, 30 mm
LIGHTING
Warm 2700K throughout; no cool sources
TEXTILES
Tan leather, wool, dark linen

GALLERY — 08 FRAMES

Gallery layout
A tan leather armchair against a deep teal wall, beside a fluted screen and a low side table.
An open-plan kitchen and dining room with pale oak cabinetry, a round wooden table and rattan pendant lights.
HALL — THE STAIR, AND WHAT IT LEAVES OPEN
A round oak dining table with black wishbone chairs under a white paper pendant, between fluted plaster arches.
DINING — THE TABLE UNDER THE PENDANT
A living room with exposed timber beams, a white modular sofa, a fireplace and a dining table by tall windows.
LIVING — THE ARCH, AND THE LIGHT AT FOUR
A living room with a beige sofa and yellow cushions, a rattan folding screen and white shelving against a plaster wall.
KITCHEN — THE ISLAND, FROM THE DOOR
A living room with arched niches, a slatted wood wall, a bouclé sofa and an olive tree by the window.
SITTING ROOM — THE WINDOW SEAT
A minimal kitchen with light oak cabinets, a marble island and a long dining table on a pale wooden floor.
STUDY — THE SIDEBOARD AND THE FLOOR
A cream armchair beside a walnut sideboard, an abstract wall panel above it and a patterned rug underfoot.
BACK ROOM — THE BRICK, LEFT ALONE
A tan leather armchair against a deep teal wall, beside a fluted screen and a low side table.
KITCHEN — THE LONG WALL, SEEN FROM THE STAIR
An open-plan kitchen and dining room with pale oak cabinetry, a round wooden table and rattan pendant lights.
HALL — THE STAIR, AND WHAT IT LEAVES OPEN
A round oak dining table with black wishbone chairs under a white paper pendant, between fluted plaster arches.
DINING — THE TABLE UNDER THE PENDANT
A living room with exposed timber beams, a white modular sofa, a fireplace and a dining table by tall windows.
LIVING — THE ARCH, AND THE LIGHT AT FOUR
A living room with a beige sofa and yellow cushions, a rattan folding screen and white shelving against a plaster wall.
KITCHEN — THE ISLAND, FROM THE DOOR
A living room with arched niches, a slatted wood wall, a bouclé sofa and an olive tree by the window.
SITTING ROOM — THE WINDOW SEAT
A minimal kitchen with light oak cabinets, a marble island and a long dining table on a pale wooden floor.
STUDY — THE SIDEBOARD AND THE FLOOR
A cream armchair beside a walnut sideboard, an abstract wall panel above it and a patterned rug underfoot.
BACK ROOM — THE BRICK, LEFT ALONE

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A tan leather armchair against a deep teal wall, beside a fluted screen and a low side table.
KITCHEN — THE LONG WALL, SEEN FROM THE STAIR
An open-plan kitchen and dining room with pale oak cabinetry, a round wooden table and rattan pendant lights.
HALL — THE STAIR, AND WHAT IT LEAVES OPEN
A round oak dining table with black wishbone chairs under a white paper pendant, between fluted plaster arches.
DINING — THE TABLE UNDER THE PENDANT
A living room with exposed timber beams, a white modular sofa, a fireplace and a dining table by tall windows.
LIVING — THE ARCH, AND THE LIGHT AT FOUR
A living room with a beige sofa and yellow cushions, a rattan folding screen and white shelving against a plaster wall.
KITCHEN — THE ISLAND, FROM THE DOOR
A living room with arched niches, a slatted wood wall, a bouclé sofa and an olive tree by the window.
SITTING ROOM — THE WINDOW SEAT
A minimal kitchen with light oak cabinets, a marble island and a long dining table on a pale wooden floor.
STUDY — THE SIDEBOARD AND THE FLOOR
A cream armchair beside a walnut sideboard, an abstract wall panel above it and a patterned rug underfoot.
BACK ROOM — THE BRICK, LEFT ALONE

North-facing rooms do not get brighter when you paint them white; they get flatter. The flat had been white for two owners and read as grey in every photograph taken in it.

The sitting-room wall went dark instead. Against it the daylight has something to be lighter than, and the room gained a depth it had not had since the sixties.

The chair was bought before the paint and is the reason for the colour rather than the other way round. That is not how it is supposed to go, and it worked.

Every good roomstarted as a conversation.

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