Blue Nest Montessori, Harrow

Blue Nest Montessori's Harrow branch started as a block-built community hall over two floors that had fallen out of use: a main hall with a stage and stacked furniture, bare breeze-block rooms upstairs and down, cluttered stores, and grounds lost to long grass and brambles behind a rotten boundary fence and chain-link storage cages.

Over two months we turned the whole site into a working nursery. Inside, both floors were refitted: the hall and the rooms around it became classrooms and a baby room with new floors, finishes, storage and child-height furniture, and the first floor was extended to add a sleeping room and a studio. Outside, the grounds were cleared, re-fenced and laid with a safety surface, then fitted with climbing equipment, a slide, a timber den and planting.