Brixton skinny house for sale: less than 10ft wide property with maximalist interiors by award-winning studio

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A south London house measuring less than 10ft wide — more or less the width of a single garage — has been listed for sale for £775,000.

The house in Brixton was given a full interior renovation by the current owner, interior designer Ed O’Donnell, one half of Angel O'Donell design studio, and packs a punch with moody colours, clever space-saving hacks and eclectic art throughout.

And although at 9ft 8in it’s seriously skinny, the house still meets the two requirements of our lockdown lives – with a small outside courtyard, and a clever mezzanine providing a dedicated work from home space.

O’Donnell bought the house for £489,000 in 2015 with his partner, advertising copywriter JP Banks, and did a top-to-toe renovation, eking every inch of useable space out of the floorplan at a cost of £90,000.

On the ground floor the dividing wall between the kitchen and living room was knocked down, creating a flow through the entire ground floor and opening up space for the sociable couple to entertain in – when Covid restrictions allow. “Our choice of dining table was more important to us than our sofa,” Ed O’Donnell told Dominic Lutyens, writing in Homes & Property in January.

They replaced an awkwardly postioned staircase that cut across the front window with a new, slimline, space-saving option in burnished bronze that looks good and echoes the zigzag of the parquet floor.

Upstairs they opened up the ceilings into the loft, which allowed them to build a mezzanine in the second bedroom, where they’ve put a guest bed, using the room below as a home office. The pair take turns between using that and the kitchen table.

They also built a small extension for a walk-in wardrobe connected to the main bedroom.

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Unlike many white-walled and emptied out small space homes, the couple opted to decorate in dark blue, green and rich burgundy, filling the house with antiques, atmospheric lighting and quirky prints and wall hangings.

After five happy years in the house O’Donnell and Banks are living out their own “Covid cliché” and decamping to Somerset.

“We’ve always fancied a place in the countryside but never wanted to leave London 100 per cent either so the plan is to keep a one-bed or studio flat in town somewhere and buy a doer upper in the countryside,” says O’Donnell.

They discovered Bruton on a weekend away and fell in love with the arty, Notting Hill scene, so they’re now house-hunting there for their next project home – a stone’s throw from Sarah Beeny’s new sheep farm, as detailed on her latest property show, New Life in the Country.

To find out more about the house sale contact hello@angelodonnell.com.

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