Micro sized, not micro priced

25 Jul 2014

At just 30 sqm, or 323 sq ft if you prefer, this fourth floor studio flat at 92 Mount Street is one of the smallest homes ever released in London’s Mayfair market.

Cleverly designed with cocktail bar/night-club style interiors, the micro-pad can transform from a mini-bar/private club into a cosy home.

Being the size of a cloakroom or bathroom, a studio like this would normally feel cramped and constrained, but this pad overlooking Scott’s Restaurant in the heart of Mayfair has been cleverly designed to feel spacious and cool.

 

Instead of a dull conventional interior, the studio space has been designed to look like a chic West End cocktail bar or night-club.

The niche interior has been dramatically “sexed up” with coffered ceiling with light features, cocktail-bar shelving with wall mirrors and LED shelving, a black-metallic panelled, gold edged, drinks bar and bar-stools, Louis Vuitton style dark-wood panelled fitted cupboards and ebony coloured faux leather flooring.

Doors open onto an outside cocktail terrace complete with table and chairs – a superb setting for evening drinks. Inside, there is also a drinks area with cosy bespoke sofa, matching rug and hotel-style feature chairs. Even the Art Nouveau style bathroom with its black and gold patterned mosaics, Deco lights, and gold and silver feature butterflies feels like something out of Claridges rather than a small studio flat.

However behind the cocktail-bar exterior are all the features required to convert the space into a cosy home. Skilfully hidden within the bar is a hob, oven, drawers and cupboards allowing the space to convert into a kitchen, with the worktop and bar-stools providing a stylish breakfast/dining area.

The sofa and drinks area converts into a bedroom suite, with the wall panelling opening to reveal an ingenious split-built in cupboard/wardrobe one side serving as storage for clothing and accessories, the other a fold-away utility room with washing machine, shelving for ironing board and other domestic appliances.

Peter Wetherell, Chief Executive of Wetherell, said: “Whilst this might be one of the smallest homes ever released in the Mayfair market, it is also one of the most clever interior design schemes we have been instructed to promote.

“It’s a place that needs to be seen to be understood. The design is ingenious: the living space can be arranged to provide a cocktail bar/night-club style ambience, the next, it can be transformed into a cosy home with kitchen, dining area and bedroom.”

The fully-furnished studio apartment is available to rent for an initial deposit of £3,750 and then the best part of £3,000 per month.  

www.wetherell.co.uk

Andrew Batt, International Group Editor of PropertyGuru Group, wrote this story. To contact him about this or other stories email andrew@propertyguru.com.sg

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