KIDMAN LANE HOUSE
A LYMESMITH COLLABORATION with plus minus design
A characteristic of Lymesmith’s work is the blurring of hard boundaries – where does the interior colour scheme stop and the exterior colour scheme start? At Kidman Lane one folds into the other, colour slips across thresholds, rendering them redundant and amplifying the sense of space. A ceiling becomes the sky, the whole ground floor an outdoor room.
Deliberate use of colour animates and amplifies spatial character, notably reinforcing the radically open ground floor plan with a ribbon of colour that makes explicit that the living space is not just the interior space but in fact encompasses the entire block.
The complexity of the colour palette accentuates the pleasure of exploring the house. The ground floor is has both subtle and bold colour colour moments. Some only discernible (like the pale pink datum line) after the eyes have adjusted to the interior light. Venturing upstairs bring more discovery, as the subtly different wall colours appear ambiguous – are they the same or not? It depends on the time of day, and your point of view.
