09-05-2025
Inside a colourful mews house with clever space-saving hacks
City living is all about maximising often minimal assets. Few of us have basement pools or cavernous walk-in wardrobes, but turning an entrance hallway alcove into a shoe cupboard is a standard strategy. Willow Kemp, 35, believes in 'big ideas, small spaces', and when it came to moving into her home near Kensington Gardens, London, at the start of the year, that manifesto went beyond the usual giant drawers for storage under a high bed (although she has those).
For instance, there's a secret wine cellar underneath the seagrass flooring in the compact kitchen that her fiancé, Henry, is in the process of stocking. On the top floor there's a pull-down Murphy bed in the guest bedroom that can vanish into the walls, which are
