A housing association apartment has the functional benefits of security of tenure while and greater permissivity for the end users, allowing decoration and furnishings that would simply not be possible or worthwhile in private tenancy. With obvious limits on scope, permanence and budget, the flat has been through a number of iterations and continues to evolve.
Reject plain IKEA! Each room features a range of carefully made furniture and interventions made from found, second-hand or low-cost but robust materials that have each been used to give greater than the sum of the parts.
1. Adjustable scaffold board shelves 2. Reclaimed Victorian oak parquet 3. Lighting scale experiments 4. Suspended ‘Kratky’ hydroponic soybeans 5. Dining / coffee table and low seating from scaffold boards, pallets and bike cable suspension braces 6. Shower hack with cheap tiling and cantilever open slat shelf 7. Retrofit bath side panel and duck board 8. DIY medicine cabinet and fixtures 9. Cantilever cable light with leftover copper pipe 10. Ikea hack Minimal cubist shelf with bike cable suspension braces 11. Kingsize scaffold Board and palette bed (4th iteration) 12. Shuttering ply kitchen peg-board adaptable storage with hanging bowl lights 13. DIY pan rack, cheap lights and painted datum above bog-standard kitchen cabinets 14. Cider, Perry and beer storage for the ‘Sinister Cyder Society’ from leftover roofing battens 15. Bee hotel from scrap wood 16. Bay window feature planting trellis 17. Ground floor window treatments to balance privacy and views 18. Mezzanine bed with string balustrade 19. Lockdown studio with floating suspended shelves 20. Lockdown studio with floating suspended desk below mezzanine.