Ten mews houses that take advantage of London's backstreets
The mews lanes behind London's main streets that once contained stables and outhouses now contain homes and shops. Here are 10 of the city's most interesting modern mews houses. More
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Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture inserts brick and timber mews house into south London lane
Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture utilised "the materials of garages and sheds" to create a small two-storey house on Stories Mews in south London. More
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Hutch Design reconfigures Hackney mews to create space-saving family home
Architecture office Hutch Design has renovated and extended a mews house in north London, incorporating folding walls, mirrors and hidden storage to make the most of the compact space. More
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Pivoting louvres conceal windows set into brick facade of mews house by Belsize Architects
A lightwell, a glass staircase and large windows set behind wooden louvres help to bring natural light into this four-bedroom house, which Belsize Architects squeezed onto a small plot in a traditional mews near London's Hyde Park. More
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Peter Barber Architects uses oriel windows to animate the facades of Moray Mews houses
Peter Barber Architects has completed a terrace of mews houses in north London, which are arranged along a cobbled lane and feature oriel windows that cantilever out from their reclaimed-brick facades. More
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Jonathan Tuckey slots home and fashion boutique into Knightsbridge mews
A bathroom doubles as a meeting room in this live-work space created by Jonathan Tuckey Design for Egg fashion boutique inside a small mews house in Knightsbridge, London. More
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Threefold Architects updates London mews house with monochrome interiors and rustic details
Threefold Architects has renovated a mews property in London's exclusive Primrose Hill area, pairing stark white walls with blackened metalwork, polished concrete and painted brickwork. More
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DUA completes contemporary Dublin mews house with sunken concrete bathroom
This Dublin mews house – designed by Irish studio DUA for a young bachelor – features a sunken concrete bathtub, custom fittings, and reclaimed-brick and pine-plywood walls. More
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Coffey Architects references Japanese tea houses in renovated London mews home
Coffey Architects has used traditional Japanese design techniques to make the most of space and light in this renovation of a three-metre-wide London mews house – which is in the running for the RIBA's House of the Year prize. More
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Cornwall Mews renovation by Alma-nac centres around a cream staircase
A cream-painted staircase connects the four floors of this London mews house, which has been renovated by architecture studio Alma-nac to create more light and space (+ slideshow). More
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Project Orange slots mews-inspired development behind a row of west London shops
Architecture studio Project Orange has reinterpreted the traditional London mews to create a row of contemporary brick studio buildings with residences on top (+ slideshow). More
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SAM Architects uses recycled brick and charred wood for London mews house
SAM Architects chose century-old brickwork and charred larch for the exterior of this mews house in southeast London, which features a brightly coloured kitchen and a folding facade (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). More
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Stiff + Trevillion updates Bloomsbury mews house with gridded glazing and double-height bookcase
Glass walls and simple furnishings are paired with pale surfaces to give this Bloomsbury renovation by London studio Stiff + Trevillion a minimal aesthetic (+ slideshow). More
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Photography studio by Cassion Castle takes over an east London mews house
A gabled brick facade with a three-metre-high door fronts this former mews house in east London, renovated by architect Cassion Castle as a private studio for a photographer (+ slideshow). More
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Robert Dye Architects extends a London mews house by pushing out a wall
Robert Dye Architects has shifted the entire end wall of a mews house in London's Primrose Hill neighbourhood, as part of a renovation and extension designed to bring in more natural light (+ slideshow). More
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Jonathan Tuckey Design renovates a mews house for an ex-submariner
Latticed wooden screens form balustrades for a red pigmented concrete staircase inside this renovated mews house in west London by British studio Jonathan Tuckey Design. More
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Blackbox mews house by Form_art Architects has brick walls inside and out
Walls of dark brick connect the exterior and interior of this mews house in the north London borough of Hackney (+ slideshow). More
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17a Highbury Terrace Mews renovation by Studio 54 Architecture
East London firm Studio 54 Architecture updated the facade of this house in a London mews by replacing a decorative gable with an austere black box and grey-painted brickwork. More
