Flora Building in Hoxton is not your standard student block. Set on LongStreet in East London, the scheme was designed around holistic wellbeing,with bright interiors, natural materials, and a more design-led approach tostudent living than the usual “desk, bed, done” formula. HG Constructiondelivered the project, with Ideal Interiors shaping the fit-out concept and abiophilic design approach running through the building.
Our role focused on the painting package, helping the interiorsfeel as polished as the concept behind them.

Flora Building is a seven-storey student accommodation scheme at 11-13 Long Street, Hoxton, offering a mix of studios and shared apartments in a building designed to feel modern, bright, and wellbeing-focused. HG Construction was the main contractor, and the interior concept was developed by Ideal Interiors around natural colour, light, and comfort.
On a project like this, the paintwork could not feel basic. The whole building was designed to feel calm, light, and premium, which meant the finish had to support that from the start.


When a building is designed around wellbeing, natural tones, and biophilic interiors, the paintwork stops being background noise. It becomes part of the atmosphere.
Across the building, the aim stayed simple: make the finish feel like part of the design, not an afterthought.
At Flora Building, our painting package helped bring the interiors together on a Hoxton student scheme designed to feel more thoughtful, more design-led, and more comfortable than the norm. On a project built around wellbeing and first impressions, the finish had to do its part. It did.



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