JULIET MURPHY PHOTOGRAPHY

A beautifully executed refurbishment and interior design by Laura Lakin. Working closely with her client to carefully create the interior design to complement their style. The end result is a contemporary airy feel throughout, infused with hints of their love of the 50s. 

Another beautiful interior design refurb by Laura Lakin. Her use of blues and whites, and geometric prints complete a cohesive feel travelling throughout the house. Maintaining a bright and light vibe, a signature of Laura's ability to create a soft and airy mood in what used to be a darker victorian style London town house.

This Beautiful four storey town house in East London is designed by Joao Botelho - Co-founder and creative director of Casa Botelho. Joao is an incredibly talented creative. Not only is he a master of interior design, he is also a high profile designer and has produced multiple beautiful pieces of furniture, to which I have had the pleasure of photographing for him (please see my still life section) 

Project shot for EMR Architecture.

The house was fully renovated, going back to brick, creating new extensions of the loft and of the kitchen. 

The Project has some really beautiful features. The inspiration refers back to grand castles, mansions and chateaux, which is ambitious to make work for a London Victorian house only 5m wide, but it really brings in some stunning features throughout the home. The turned handrails up the staircase are a particular achievement, 120 y old reclaimed Provence parquet mounted on engineered wood, iron spindles, fantastic Steel french doors to the garden, bespoke marble, continuous skirting between landings and stairs, plasterwork with mouldings, invisible doors and so much more.

It was a real pleasure to shoot this project, and of course I have to mentioned the darling little dog I manage to sneak into one of the shots.

LAURA LAKIN - Interior designer.

This house was a full renovation by EMR Architects. They striped the house back to brick and created a kitchen extension and loft conversion.

It was shot on a miserable day, with plenty of outbursts of heavy rain fall, which is always unfortunate when shooting a beautiful glass filled kitchen extension and garden.

One challenge I particularly enjoyed was shooting the large glass panel in the living room so you can see through to the hallways and front door. The main challenges are the many reflections covering the glass and blocking the view through. I left just enough reflection to show it’s glass without it interfering with the overall image.

My biggest achievement was to get a dusk shot in the pouring rain and being stuck in what felt like a wind tunnel with just myself, my camera and a very unruly umbrella.

I also popped in all the skies in the skylights and window views, which I think look pretty realistic.

BEN SMITH ARCHITECTS - delivered the most incredible transformation to this four floor West London town house. 

BEN SMITH ARCHITECTS. This beautifully renovated detached home has undergone an extreme makeover, opening it up to created wide, flowing spaces more suited to the modern family.  This home seamlessly converges the new clean modern look of neutral, tonal greys and bright whites, while still maintaining the classic traits of the Georgian London home, with high ceilings, and tall walls supporting decorative cornices and dado rails.

This project was shot for Iguana Architects. The triumph being the kitchen extension transformation, on an extremely tight budget.

I shot this on an wet, moody, wintery day and I was still most impressed by the light flooding through the kitchen. The concept being to bring as much of the outdoors indoors and creating a vast family space with plenty of natural light.

The result - a predominantly wooden finish, bringing the natural element desired, with playful blocks of colour throughout the extension. Solid carpentry, neatly executed, using sustainable materials mixed with splashes of colour and beautifully simple, well crafted cabinet design forge together to create a joyfully attractive, contemporary kitchen with lots of storage space and room for a large family.

Several ceiling skylights and large bi-folding patio doors draw in plenty of light. Views of the sky and a leafy garden harmonise a suburban home with the nature beyond to create the architectural wellness we are all striving to achieve for a happier healthier existence.

The geometric shape gives life to a wild grass garden to grow on the roof of the extension and allows for drainage, the practical element of the shape giving way to a really good-looking modern exterior to the back of the home.

The main challenge in shooting this project was the miserable light due to shooting on a cloudy wintery day in the last week of November. If the sun was streaming through the skylights it would have dramatically changed the final imagery. However the seasonal golden light did eventually breakthrough, laying way to the most beautiful skies for the dusk shot, my silver lining.

Projects by planning and developing company Stuart James Associates Ltd .

Japanese restaurant UMU set up a pop up restaurant at Frieze art show in london. 

Relish Burger was redesign and refurbished by Matteo Bianchi Studio. They were looking for a contemporary diner motif to match their diner style menu.  

In terms of the shoot it was a fairly uncomplicated job, the only pressure was the amount of time we had for the shoot. The restaurant had already opened for service, allowing for only a small window of time after lunch and before dinner. We quickly had to realign the restaurant furniture and make everything uniform and spotless. After all, this is an interior design shoot for Matteo, not an atmospheric shoot for the restaurant, so the interior needed to look impeccable. We were both happy with the results.

This was a lovely local project I shot for De Rosee Sa Architects. Only down the road from me this is a beautiful little pavilion, surrounded by the green, playgrounds and tennis courts. It is an upgrading of the previous timber construction for the Brook Green community. It houses a coffee kiosk and large public WCs, disabled accessible. This is all part of a regeneration of Brook Green project where the architects have worked closely with the 'Friends of Brook Green' to create an attractive civic community hub.

For more details see the Architects Journal https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/de-rosee-sa-completes-250k-stone-clad-pavilion/10017188.article?blocktitle=First-look&contentID=17611

and Divisare

https://divisare.com/projects/337242-de-rosee-sa-architects-juliet-murphy-brook-green-pavilion

NOVIKOV - Restaurant and bar - Asian cuisine.

AWW ARCHITECTS

AWW ARCHITECTS - Hayesfield School -  Very impressive extension of  the secondary school for girls.

AWW ARCHITECTS.

Beautiful wooden floors photographed in situ. 

When producing still life images for furniture I try to maintain consistency throughout the consecutive shots to enable an attractive clean, uniform look perfect on a website or in a brochure. While collectively the images sit handsomely on a page to display a product it is important that each individual image is strong enough to sit on its own. These are great for little postcards or if you wanted to use them on Instagram or blogging or newsletters etc

SCANOMAT - Integrated coffee dispenser. Brief was to show the unit in context  in the office space. Can be used with the attached ipad to select coffee. Or can be used by a smart phone with an app.

The Apprentice series 10 TV show . This is the house the contestants stayed in for the duration of the show. 

The Apprentice series 11 TV show. This is the house the contestants stayed in for the duration of the show. I was commissioned by production designers on the show, who are rather fantastically named 'The Handsome Chaps'. They are a Bafta award winning high profile team who needed good shots of their design transformation of the home.  I was only allocated one and half hours to shoot the whole house, just before the contestants arrived. Under the pressured circumstances we were all very pleased with the result.

This project was overseen by Glenwood Consultant. It was a total gutting and renovation of a town house to the very final details of interior design. The result is a very modern stylish home within a traditional London mews setting.

AWW ARCHITECTS

AWW ARCHITECTS - Lewisham hospital extension.

BEN SMITH ARCHITECTS