Yoko Kloeden Design

Yoko Kloeden Design Interior architecture, refurbishment and extension of existing houses and new builds for residential

Yoko Kloeden Design is a London-based interior design studio for residential and commercial clients - covering the complete interior design process from initial conception to final project delivery. We are committed to deliver solutions that reflect the client’s lifestyle, personality, and aspiration. Our goal is to create and deliver interior stories which feel unique to their owners. This is where we share our news, project updates and inspirations.

Sort of fluffing a few cushions.'Design is not decoration. It's the decisions that determine whether a space works.Save ...
20/04/2026

Sort of fluffing a few cushions.'

Design is not decoration. It's the decisions that determine whether a space works.

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The thinking phase ends when you answer three specific questions.Not inspiration — questions. There's a difference.Comme...
17/04/2026

The thinking phase ends when you answer three specific questions.

Not inspiration — questions. There's a difference.

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Before thinking about extending, consider whether the space you already have is working as well as it could.Many homes h...
16/04/2026

Before thinking about extending, consider whether the space you already have is working as well as it could.
Many homes have rooms that have quietly stopped earning their place — a dining room no one sits in, a hallway that only funnels, a middle room that belongs to no one.
These are not problems. They are opportunities.

Rethinking internal layout is often more impactful, and significantly less expensive, than adding floor area. The question is not how much space do you need, but how do you want to live.
We wrote a guide to reading your property with fresh eyes — from light and layout to garden connection and planning constraints.

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Calm is almost never about what you add.Zara's flat got quieter before a single new thing came in.What would you subtrac...
15/04/2026

Calm is almost never about what you add.

Zara's flat got quieter before a single new thing came in.

What would you subtract from your home if you were honest about it?

Before speaking to an architect, spend a day noticing your home.Where does light fall in the morning? Which rooms feel d...
14/04/2026

Before speaking to an architect, spend a day noticing your home.
Where does light fall in the morning? Which rooms feel dark by afternoon? Where does the sun set relative to your garden?
These observations seem small. But they become some of the most valuable briefing information you can provide — because orientation shapes everything that follows. How a room feels. Where glazing should sit. Which spaces work for morning routines and which come alive in the evening.

In Japanese design, this attentiveness to light Hikari (光) is crucial. It treats light not as a technical requirement but as a living presence — one that shifts through a space over the course of the day.
Our latest journal article explores what to look for when assessing your property's potential — before any design work begins.

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'I've never seen a renovation go like that.' — the builder.The project was calm because the brief was complete before wo...
13/04/2026

'I've never seen a renovation go like that.' — the builder.

The project was calm because the brief was complete before work started.

↓ Save this if you're heading into a renovation.

Ten years. Five to eight projects a year. The same question at the start of every one.Trends are expensive. Timeless is ...
10/04/2026

Ten years. Five to eight projects a year. The same question at the start of every one.

Trends are expensive. Timeless is a discipline.

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Ten years ago, I left finance and opened a studio with one completed project: our own house. The question that started e...
08/04/2026

Ten years ago, I left finance and opened a studio with one completed project: our own house.

The question that started everything: how do you want to feel?
Still the only question that matters.

The survey tells you what's wrong. It says nothing about what the house could become.That gap between problem and vision...
06/04/2026

The survey tells you what's wrong.
It says nothing about what the house could become.

That gap between problem and vision is where renovations go wrong.
Save this if you're in the planning stages.

"I don't know what I want" is not a problem. It's a starting point. Serene Spaces walks through the five principles — H...
03/04/2026

"I don't know what I want" is not a problem.
It's a starting point.

Serene Spaces walks through the five principles — Hikari, Nagame, Ma, Shizen, Taru o Shiru — that guide every YKD project.
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One room. One year of apologising for it. Then we asked: what does this space actually want to be? Which room in your ...
01/04/2026

One room.
One year of apologising for it.

Then we asked: what does this space actually want to be?
Which room in your home are you still apologising for?

"Fine." It's one of the most expensive words in home design. That vague, low-level wrong feeling? It's not decoration t...
30/03/2026

"Fine."
It's one of the most expensive words in home design.
That vague, low-level wrong feeling? It's not decoration that's failing.

Save this if you've been living around it rather than through it.

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Yoko Kloeden Design was founded by a Japan-born, corporate-investor-turned-designer, Yoko Kloeden in 2015 with one mission: to create spaces that care about the people inside from the beginning of a project.

With the explosion of visual-heavy online content and social media, more and more people seem to believe design is something that you can click and buy on your finger tips, something that you can copy and paste, something you can consume to make a quick buck.

In the modern world where average person in the UK check a mobile phone every 12 minutes and where people are more connected than ever, the mental health crisis is among the top of the government’s list...

Enough.