Levan House Design

Levan House Design Specialist interior design studio for period and character homes across London and the South East. Georgian, Victorian and listed properties. Est. 2013.

Senior-led from first conversation to final installation.

Does a period home have to feel traditional? Not always.We work almost exclusively on period properties and a lot of the...
04/09/2026

Does a period home have to feel traditional? Not always.

We work almost exclusively on period properties and a lot of the job is about instinct, knowing what features to protect and celebrate and where there is room for a more contemporary intervention. Some rooms are so full of history they are best approached with restraint. Others were never much to work with, or the way a family actually lives in them now requires something else.

Neither is righter than the other. The history of the building is one part of the argument. The rest of it is the brief.

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Before & After, the primary bedroom in our De Beauvoir townhouse. Before our involvement, the room was stripped back and...
02/09/2026

Before & After, the primary bedroom in our De Beauvoir townhouse.

Before our involvement, the room was stripped back and simple, but equally it was harsh with nothing softening it. What that showed us was a strong architecture - strong enough to build a scheme around it rather than something competing with it.

What is there now is layered and warm, persian-inspired fabric, an amber palette, a more contemporary furnishing scheme in contrast to the classic architecture. The scheme respects what the room already was rather than covering it over.

Our role here wasn’t a structural refurbishment, and its a good reminder that a well considered scheme can do most of the work on its own.

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Livingetc has featured our Sussex coast apartment bathroom in a piece on romantic minimalist bathrooms, one of five sche...
01/09/2026

Livingetc has featured our Sussex coast apartment bathroom in a piece on romantic minimalist bathrooms, one of five schemes in the piece, alongside some genuinely good company.

The room had no original architecture to respond to, so the approach was to borrow a cornice and skirting from elsewhere in the apartment, then let the 1960s conversion earn a reference of its own through a Rosso marble floor.

Layering, not a period replica.

Read the full piece, link in bio.

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Why we use antiques and vintage pieces in our projects.They sit well in a period setting almost without trying, and they...
28/08/2026

Why we use antiques and vintage pieces in our projects.

They sit well in a period setting almost without trying, and they hold their own just as easily in a contemporary scheme, adding a depth and history that nothing new quite manages. They tend to carry more character, and choosing something already made is simply a more sustainable way of designing.

Some of it is about restraint too. Genuinely detailed, hand-finished pieces are harder to find than they used to be, which is exactly why it’s worth stopping when you do.

And more often than not, when a project is finished and a client tells us what they love most, it’s the antique in the room. Not the newest thing in it, the one that already had a history.

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26/08/2026

Introducing our new series, Room Notes.

A place where we walk through one finished room and the thinking and methodology behind it.

First up, the living room in our Grade II listed Chelsea townhouse.

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The kitchen in our Grade II listed Chelsea townhouse sits in the basement, once the service floor, which is why there is...
24/08/2026

The kitchen in our Grade II listed Chelsea townhouse sits in the basement, once the service floor, which is why there is very little architectural detailing here, unlike the rooms above it.

That gave us room to be contemporary. The majority of storage in the kitchen is concealed, with the exception of this cabinet, housing the client’s glassware, creamware and everyday dinnerware in full view. In a compact room, closed cabinetry would have boxed the space in. Glazed cabinetry keeps it visually light.

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21/08/2026

The guest bedroom in our Sussex coast apartment didn’t have much to work with.

The room had been reconfigured over the years, made larger at some point, and what was left was long and narrow, with very little original character to draw from.

So rather than restore something that wasn’t really there, we built character into it instead. Pattern, colour, and enough of both to give the room a personality it hadn’t had in a long time.

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A day of sourcing rarely goes to plan, and it is usually better for it.We started at a local bespoke kitchen showroom, c...
19/08/2026

A day of sourcing rarely goes to plan, and it is usually better for it.

We started at a local bespoke kitchen showroom, checking finishes and hardware against the drawings for an active project, working alongside the manufacturer to relay our exact design intent. Samples on a table only tell you so much. They need to be read against the actual plans before anything is confirmed, and against a certain amount of scepticism from whoever is holding the tile.

From there, a reclamation yard, on the hunt for a fireplace with a bit more history than the one currently sitting in our Hove apartment. We didn’t leave with one. We did leave having found a statuary marble surround with its original tiles still intact, and a vintage car we had absolutely no use for but admired at length regardless.

Some days are about finishing a decision. Others are about starting to notice one, and occasionally about standing in a yard admiring a car that has nothing to do with either.

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Meet the team. Anthony, Architectural Design Lead.Anthony is the first person in any building we take on. Fifteen years ...
17/08/2026

Meet the team. Anthony, Architectural Design Lead.

Anthony is the first person in any building we take on. Fifteen years at senior level on listed townhouses and period houses, mostly across Chelsea, Mayfair, Knightsbridge and South Kensington, and a Registered Interior Designer with the BIID.

His approach doesn’t really change from project to project. Study the building before you touch anything. Most of what’s worth keeping is already there, you just have to look properly.

“Every intervention has to earn its place.”

We have been busy preparing for a client meeting next week, and this is part of how we get ready for it.Every scheme sta...
14/08/2026

We have been busy preparing for a client meeting next week, and this is part of how we get ready for it.

Every scheme starts individually, laid out so it can be judged entirely on its own terms. Then, in parallel, we bring everything together, every room, every scheme, on the same neutral ground.

Keeping everything separate allows us to see each room clearly, while laying the schemes alongside one another lets us read the house as a whole.

You find out very quickly when something doesn’t sit comfortably alongside everything else.

By the time a client sees any of it, every room has already been tested against the rest of the house.

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