Edwardian Semi-Detached House with Disco Kitchen for Filming in Waltham Forest, London

About this location

This 2,500 sq ft semi-detached contemporary Edwardian home is a fun, striking filming location in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, East London. It keeps the best original features, like the doors, cornicing, entrance hall tiles and fireplaces, and adds lots of high-quality, quirky, contemporary elements, like high-contrast interiors, hidden doors, a room-sized steel wall and a hidey-hole in the loft for the kids, suiting commercials, music videos, fashion, TV drama and interiors photoshoots. With large rooms, high ceilings and wide staircases over three floors, there is comfortable space for production equipment.

Key features

• 2,500 sq ft semi-detached contemporary Edwardian home
• Original doors, cornicing, entrance hall tiles and fireplaces
• High-contrast, quirky contemporary interiors
• Disco Kitchen with concrete, steel wall, disco ball and fog machine
• Dark blue lounge with projector and library
• Dark master suite with black freestanding bath
• Themed Space and Forest kids’ bedrooms with bunk beds
• Secret hidey-hole for kids
• Ocean Bathroom with mermaid-scale tiles
• Garden room with sauna for two
• Patio with pergola
• Large rooms, high ceilings and wide staircases over three floors
• Easy access from the front and side of the house

Feature rooms

• Disco Kitchen – contemporary open-plan kitchen with concrete floor and wall cladding, steel beam, skylights, ribbon windows, a seven-metre steel wall for hanging art and projects, disco ball, fog machine, pantry, boot room and a large glass pivot door to the garden. Concrete flooring extends to the outside patio with pergola, and a wall-coloured velvet curtain can cover the entire back of the room for an intimate, luxury feel.
• Lounge – deep, dark blue (Plimsoll) lounge with projector and library.
• Master bedroom and en-suite – ceiling, walls and flooring in dark grey/almost black (Kohl), with wood-panelled walls, jack and jill doors, fireplace and a large en-suite with stand-alone black bathtub and walk-in shower.
• Space Bedroom – dark grey walls and ceiling, planets hanging from the ceiling, galaxy projector, floor-to-ceiling dark grey shelving, bunk bed, large black glass whiteboard, Velux window and parquet flooring.
• Forest Bedroom – kitschy forest theme with rainbow waterfall wallpaper, flowers and vines, watery light projector, floor-to-ceiling wooden shelving, bunk bed, desk, glass whiteboard and parquet flooring.
• Hidden Room – the kids’ rooms share a walk-in closet with a secret hidey-hole, with fairy lights and cosy cushions, accessed through the back of the closet.
• Ocean Bathroom – children’s bathroom with terrazzo flooring, blue glass mermaid-scale tiles, walls of blue and white glass tiles that reflect light, and a white freestanding bath.
• Garden Room – reclaimed brickwork, bifold doors, parquet flooring, black-tiled bathroom and a sauna for two.

Materials

Original entrance tiles, cornicing, fireplaces, doors and wooden flooring; reclaimed parquet flooring in the loft bedrooms and garden room; concrete flooring, Panbeton concrete wall cladding, eco Richlite cladding, Dekton counter surface, reclaimed teak cupboard surface, OSB cupboards and a painted steel wall in the kitchen; Kohl and Plimsoll paint from Paint & Paper Library and Strong White from Farrow & Ball; bathroom tiles include eco terrazzo tiles from Grestec, handmade tiles from Mutina and glass tiles from Fired Earth.