Natasha Radmehr
“Y ou don't get undressed when you're making spag bol,” says Cathy Dean, founder of Studio Dean. It's a humorous visual and something of a maxim for the interior designer, who is explaining why she flipped the layout of this second-floor Victorian apartment in Edinburgh. Originally, the owner had intended to keep the rejigging to a minimum by turning a box room beside the kitchen into a utility before having Studio Dean parachute in to transform the aesthetic of her three-bedroom home on a sweeping crescent on the edge of the New Town. Dean, a stickler for logical spatial organisation, had other ideas and they involved slightly more rubble.
Instead of being close to the kitchen, the utility would become a laundry room adjoining the master bedroom (a more apt location for disrobing). “Just because it's easier for
