Apartment
Sea-Facing Reset
A 1990s sea-facing flat with the view walled off by a corridor.
- Where
- Worli, Mumbai
- Carpet area
- 1,450 sq ft
- On site
- 22 weeks
- Finish level
- Signature
The brief
Two owners, one working from home full time, wanting the sea in the room rather than glimpsed from a passage.
The hard part
The society has a hard no on touching structural walls, and a lift too small for a three-metre worktop.
What changed
The living room gained nine feet of usable width and west light that reaches the kitchen by four in the afternoon.
The decisions
Three moves did
most of the work
01
Removed the corridor, not the wall
The passage was a partition, not structure. Taking it out gave the living room the full west elevation without a single society objection.
02
Worktop in three pieces
Cut and jointed on site, because the lift is 1.8 metres. The joint sits under the hob, where nobody looks.
03
Storage behind the bedhead
Six hundred millimetres of wardrobe recovered from a bedroom that was only ever going to be for sleeping.
Before and after
The same room,
eight months apart
The rooms
Photographed a year
after handover
Specified
Every finish, named
The written specification runs to eleven pages. This is the part of it you can see from the door.
- Lime plasterWalls, hand-applied, two coats#E8E1D6
- Burnt teakJoinery and window reveals#6B4A2F
- Raw brassHandles, left to patina#B08D46
- InkFrames and the kitchen base run#22201D
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