Interior designer transforms two Chelsea flats into one family house - with a stunning basement bar
Designer Niloufar Bakhtiar-Bakhtiari transformed two all-white Chelsea flats into a vibrant family house full of colour and style — complete with a cosy bar in the basement.
Warm and welcoming: decorated in shades of red, with velvet armchairs and a sofa, the sumptuous underground bar has a drinks store set into a wall. Image: Andrew Beasley
Philippa Stockley17 February 2016
A supper for four that often becomes 14 — all sitting on Philippe Starck Ghost chairs — is no problem for Swiss-Iranian interior designer Niloufar Bakhtiar-Bakhtiari. Fabulous Iranian hospitality is well-known, but the thinking behind it less so. “We have a saying,” she explains. “Treat any stranger well who comes to your home, in case they turn out to be an angel.”
Take a tour of the colourful family home
My home: my life in colour
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Classics and brights
Going underground
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