Design direction
Feasibility and early design.
Before you commit to a full project, we test what the property could become and what your budget could realistically achieve.
See how we did this for
Victorian house extension in Finsbury Park
Your home works.
But you keep working around it.
PMO is an East London architecture studio specialising in home renovation. We help homeowners decide where their budget will make the biggest difference, then lead the project through design and construction.
Clients come to us for
Depending on where you are in the process, we can test what is possible, prepare the project for contractor pricing, or lead the renovation through construction.
Design to tender
A complete design for contractor pricing.
We develop the agreed design and prepare the drawings and specifications contractors need to provide clear, comparable prices.
See how we did this for
Victorian house renovation in Dalston
Full service
Design and support through construction.
We lead the project from first idea through construction: coordinate the team, visit site at key stages and review the work against the design.
See how we did this for
Apartment renovation in Valencia
Selected renovation projects
Every renovation starts with something worth keeping and something that no longer works. These projects show the main design decision, which service the client chose and how long it took to reach the next milestone.
Victorian house extension
in Finsbury Park
We kept the existing gable while opening the kitchen to the garden.
Service: Design direction
Timeline: 3 weeks to concept sign off
Apartment renovation
in Valencia
We kept the original plan, reduced visual noise and made the apartment feel refined.
Service: Full service
Timeline: 9 months, first conversation to moving in
Victorian house renovation
in Dalston
We reworked the house around daily routines and the character of the unusual neighbourhood.
Service: Design to tender
Timeline: 3 months to tender
About
When a space is right, you stop wanting. What you have feels like enough. That is what we are working towards.
Most renovations add more. We are interested in the opposite: finding what already works and making better use of the existing. This can avoid unnecessary work, help the house last longer and reduce the need to change it again.
Polina Morova is a UK-registered architect and founder of PMO, based in East London. She trained at the Bartlett and worked at Herzog & de Meuron and Carmody Groarke.
She writes the Essential Architecture Substack and contributes to Monocle magazine.
Essential Architecture
Before choosing an architect, it helps to understand how they think.
Essential Architecture Substack is about homes, domestic life and the ideas behind our projects.
Start with these three pieces to see whether our approach feels right for you.
Thinking about renovation?
You do not need a finished brief. Tell us about the house, what is not working and where you are in the process. We will use the first conversation to understand the right next step for your London renovation.
