Light Touch

Cool and bright with a tropical air, Cat Dal’s London home reflects her Scandinavian heritage and time spent in the Far East

- Emma J Page

The moment when Cat Dal’s bespoke floor-to-ceiling sliding doors were cautiously fed through the front windows of her new flat is not one she will forget in a hurry. The nail-biting episode came after a patient 18-week wait from order to delivery. ‘The doors, which now open onto our garden from the kitchen, were the linchpin of the renovation,’ she says. ‘Craning them into place wasn’t an option, so we removed the front window frames and brought them in that way. Let’s just say that there was zero room for error.’