
Interior design in Notting Hill.
Kensington · W8 · Kensington new-build housesCompleted work, photograph
Interiors for tall, narrow Notting Hill houses and the flats within them. The stair, the light and the garden lead every scheme.
A narrow house, planned floor by floor.
- Four floors
- Over a lower ground floor, as a rule
- Communal gardens
- Shared green behind many terraces
- Cochrane Bespoke
- Our joinery partner, Fulham High Street
NU Projects is a design and build company in Fulham SW6, founded in 2010. We handle interior design and fit-out in Notting Hill W11, under one contract. The calculator gives your own range in a minute, by scope and finish. Call 020 7731 6841, and a budget estimate typically follows within seven days.
A Notting Hill house is tall and slim. Most run four floors above a lower ground floor. The stair is the spine, and every room hangs off it.
So we plan vertically. The kitchen and family room usually take the lower ground, by the garden. Formal rooms sit on the raised ground and first floors. Bedrooms climb above.
Many terraces back onto communal gardens. A kitchen looking onto one borrows a view no private plot could give. We draw glazing and shelving to frame it.
Plenty of these houses were split into flats long ago. Policy HO1 stops separate homes being merged back into one. So a flat stays a flat, and we design it as one.
Our nearest interiors are in Kensington W8 and Chelsea SW3, a short drive south.
What the council allows in Notting Hill.
- Council
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, under its 2024 Local Plan.
- Conservation areas
- Ladbroke, Pembridge and Norland are among those here.
- Norland
- Article 4 directions have applied there since July 2013. Its Neighbourhood Plan still guides decisions.
- Merging flats
- Policy HO1 does not allow existing self-contained homes to be merged into one.
- Listed interiors
- Policy CD5 asks for original features inside a listed house to be kept.
Source: Kensington and Chelsea’s Local Plan 2024, and the Norland Neighbourhood Plan. Read on 3 October 2026. Policies change, so we read them again for your address.
Interiors we have fitted close by.

Kensington·New build
Kensington new-build houses
A kitchen with a dark marble island and bronze units, nearby in Kensington W8.
See the project
Chelsea·Terraced house
Chelsea terraced house
A breakfast room with green shelving, close by in Chelsea SW3.
See the projectCompleted work, photographs
What interior design costs in Notting Hill.
Interior design is a flat percentage of the build cost.
Joinery is priced piece by piece, from its shop drawings.
What Notting Hill owners ask about interior design.
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Further reading, from the blog
How do you lay out a narrow four floor Notting Hill house?
Everyday living tends to go low, beside the garden.
Bedrooms and bathrooms stack above, so the plumbing runs straight.
Can two Notting Hill flats be joined into one home?
Usually not. Policy HO1 does not allow self-contained homes to be merged.
We make the flat you own work harder instead.
Does a Norland house in Notting Hill carry extra controls?
Yes. Article 4 directions have applied in Norland since July 2013.
Its Neighbourhood Plan also still guides decisions there.
Inside an unlisted house, most interior work needs no planning.
Can a Notting Hill kitchen open onto the communal garden?
Often the lower ground floor already meets it.
Any change to the rear wall goes to the borough first.
Tell us about your home in Notting Hill.
Your name and one way to reply are enough. It goes straight to the studio.
- Already have an architect or designer? We build to their design. Working with your designer
- An NDA on request, and your home is never published without your consent. How we work in confidence