The flat started out life with two bedrooms and a dining room, but once his client had admitted that she used neither the dining room nor the spare bedroom, Daniel was free to create a more efficient layout, with more storage and more usable space. ‘We gutted it, and then put all the walls back in more or less the same place, but we shifted the dimensions a bit here and a bit there to achieve much more cupboard space and storage, and to make sure there was a feeling of space and lightness when you move around the flat.’ ‘When I first opened up the curtains on the side of the house where the drawing room and bedroom are,’ explains Daniel, ‘there's a lovely view over a garden outside, so I felt green was a really vibrant and energetic colour to put in to connect with the trees outside.’