Peter Morris's pink Cloud House, a pair of homes in Gospel Oak, London

On a street of grey brick in Gospel Oak, North London, architect Peter Morris has finished The Cloud House: two adjoining three-storey homes behind one facade of enormous arches, scalloped rooflines and turquoise-framed windows, all in pale pink render. The arches are borrowed from the Grade I-listed St Martin's Church across the road, enlarged and simplified. The colour came from further afield, from the pastel Art Deco of Miami, where Morris and his wife, television producer Emily Kennedy, spent their honeymoon.

The build is more ordinary than it looks: a steel and blockwork frame carrying arches of dense, recyclable polystyrene, coated and rendered, which Morris placed himself to get the curves right. Inside the family's 133-square-metre home there are turquoise epoxy floors, pink-and-white marquee stripes on the ceilings, an emerald kitchen and a three-metre pale pink island. Up top, a four-metre turquoise skylight opens onto a roof terrace walled in pink scallops, with an outdoor bathtub looking over the neighbourhood. The larger house next door flips the layout and has been left open for its owners to finish.

It took nearly a decade, five years of it in planning with Camden Council. These are private homes, but the facade is easy to admire from the street, and a cheerful reason to wander up past St Martin's.

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