01 · The problem
A single long room with glazing on one side, which had been furnished as three separate areas pushed against the walls. It read as a corridor and nobody used the middle third of it.
Living & dining
The Long Room
One nine-metre room asked to be a living room, a dining room and a place to work, without being partitioned.
- Location
- Karen, Nairobi
- Year
- 2025
- Type
- Residential
- Services
- 3 disciplines
01 — The project
- Space
- Open-plan living, dining and study
- Area
- 72 m²
- Duration
- 16 weeks
- Materials
- Smoked oak · Travertine · Bouclé · Bronze
Services involved
02 · The move
We pulled everything off the walls. A large rug and a low sofa back now define the living zone, the dining table sits under a single wide pendant, and a run of low joinery along the solid wall anchors the whole length without dividing it.
03 · The detail
Zoning is done with light rather than architecture — four independently switched circuits, each dimmable, so the room reconfigures from working morning to entertaining evening without moving a piece of furniture.
02 — Gallery
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