The High Life

By removing unnecessary features and updating finishes, Deborah Ann Coppin not only breathed new life into a tired apartment, she made it feel more spacious

- Natalie Boruvka

This apartment was beige from top to bottom and rather dull, but I was struck by the potential of its double volume and the huge windows which flood it with light,” recalls interior designer Deborah Ann Coppin. The stunning views over Claremont, with Table Mountain in the background, were also an attraction.

Her first objectives were to maximise the available floor space and create interest with new finishes. To gain more space, she demolished the narrow upstairs bathroom, which with the existing built-in cupboards took up a third of the loft level. “There was no reason to keep it as there’s a bathroom of a similar size on the lower level,” she explains.