Minimalist kitchen with wooden cabinets, a dining table with black chairs, and a cat on a chair.

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.

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Clients come to us for

Depending on where you are in the process, we test what is possible, prepare the project for contractor pricing, or lead the renovation through construction.

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Full service

We lead the project from first idea through construction: coordinate the team, visit site and review the work against the design.

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Full apartment renovation in Valencia

Feasibility and early design for a Victorian house extension

Design to tender

We develop the design and prepare the drawings and specifications contractors need to provide clear prices.

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Victorian house renovation in Dalston

Design direction

Before you commit to a full project, we test what the property could become and what your budget could realistically achieve.

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Victorian house extension in Finsbury Park

Selected renovation projects

Every renovation starts with something worth keeping and something that no longer works.

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Commercial Renovation in Hackney

In collaboration with twelve fourty one

Full 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

Polina Morova, founder of PMO Architecture

About

When a space is right, you stop wanting. What you have feels like enough.

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.

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Designing stillness

Apartment renovation for someone who didn't want one.

Careful changes

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Two roofs

Extension in Finsbury Park

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.

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Your home works.But you keep working around it.