A keen collector of pottery approached us to help adapt his 1960s house on the edge of Dulwich Woods for his young family. Working closely with both client and a cabinet maker our design proposed two interventions; a new kitchen and a storage wall between a bedroom and playroom. As you enter the kitchen through a sliding door, a colourful tiled panel separates workspace from dining. The kitchen fittings are crafted with doors of solid oak lacquered pale pink and oiled birch ply framing topped by a terrazzo work surface. The removal of a flat ceiling has allowed the expression of the slope of the roof. Inspired by Japanese domestic architecture, an inhabited wall between the entrance level playroom and upper main bedroom exploits the differing floor levels, with storage integrated within a wardrobe to the upper bedroom and drawers to the lower playroom. Taking cues from the existing architecture that uses views and light to connect spaces internally, a new internal window in a chamfered recess provides a place to sit as well as display pottery. Sliding screens framed in recycled teak and finished in hand-printed wallpaper create doors to the wardrobe can also be drawn across the internal window to provide privacy.