Decorating Holland Villas Road

Holland Villas Road is an impressive tree-lined avenue running through the heart of Holland Park in W14, developed from the 1850s onwards with large Italianate and Gothic Revival villas set within substantial private gardens that give the street an almost suburban grandeur rare within inner London. The road takes its name from Holland House, the Jacobean mansion whose grounds it borders, and many of its detached and semi-detached villas were designed to the highest Victorian standards for wealthy residents who wanted the space and privacy of a country house within easy reach of the West End. It falls within the Holland Park Conservation Area designated by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

The large rendered and painted stucco villas on Holland Villas Road present extensive facade surfaces that require thorough scaffold-up inspection and repair before each repainting cycle, with breathable silicate paint systems recommended for the lime-render substrates; the private gardens and gated frontages also call for high-quality ironwork painting of entrance gates and perimeter railings. Interior spaces in these substantial Victorian villas are typically grand in scale, with elaborate corniced ceilings, decorative plasterwork, and wide reception rooms suited to premium emulsion and bespoke paint colour schemes.