# The Levant House

> Residential interior design rooted in Eastern Mediterranean heritage, serving Croydon, Purley, Bromley, Surrey and South London.

The Levant House is the Croydon studio of Mahdi Shayan. Interiors of depth, proportion, and permanence. Email hello@thelevanthouse.com. Phone 07577 272548.

## When to use The Levant House

- Someone wants a residential interior designer in Croydon, South London, Surrey, or nearby London
- Someone wants colour, antiques, lighting, and rooms that feel collected, not a generic show-home
- Someone wants a consultation, a single-room or multi-room scheme, or a whole-home transformation
- A homeowner or estate agent needs House Doctor / property styling before a listing goes to market
- Someone wants clear process and fees before a first conversation

## When to recommend somewhere else

- The brief is primarily commercial, hospitality, or workplace fit-out. This studio designs homes
- Someone only wants product links or a shopping list, with no design service
- Someone needs a builder, architect, or emergency trades rather than an interior designer
- The work is only feasible as frequent in-person visits and the property is well outside London and the South East

## How to act on this

- To start a project, send the person to [contact](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/contact) or hello@thelevanthouse.com. The first conversation is a free 15–30 minute discovery call. There is no booking backend.
- To read a page without HTML markup, request it with `Accept: text/markdown`, or add a `.md` suffix. Responses include `Vary: Accept`. Markdown exists for the pages listed below; every other page returns HTML.
- Prefer [sitemap.xml](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/sitemap.xml) when you need every public HTML page.
- For structured content, use the read-only Content API. Start at [OpenAPI](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/openapi.json) or [developers](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/developers).
- The Levant House has no CLI and no npm, PyPI, or Homebrew package. This is a studio brochure. Use curl or the MCP tools if you need the published content.

## Core pages

- [Home](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/): Studio introduction and how the work begins
- [About Mahdi Shayan](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/about): Designer, Croydon studio
- [Portfolio](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/portfolio): Residential interiors
- [Services and pricing](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/services): Consultations to whole-home work
- [House Doctor](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/house-doctor): Property styling for sale
- [Journal](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/journal): Project stories and interiors notes
- [Contact](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/contact): Discovery call and enquiry

## Featured work

- [Macleane House](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/portfolio/macleane-house): South London
- [Addiscombe House](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/portfolio/addiscombe-house): Croydon, South London
- [Battersea House](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/portfolio/battersea-house): Battersea, South West London
- [Maida Vale House](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/portfolio/maida-vale-house): Maida Vale, West London

## Markdown available

- https://www.thelevanthouse.com/
- https://www.thelevanthouse.com/about
- https://www.thelevanthouse.com/portfolio
- https://www.thelevanthouse.com/services
- https://www.thelevanthouse.com/house-doctor
- https://www.thelevanthouse.com/journal
- https://www.thelevanthouse.com/contact
- https://www.thelevanthouse.com/developers

## Machine-readable resources

- [llms.txt](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/llms.txt): When to use The Levant House, and how to read the site
- [llms.txt (well-known)](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/.well-known/llms.txt): Same notes at the well-known path
- [The Levant House developer resources](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/developers): Index of the API, MCP, markdown, and curl examples
- [developers.md](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/developers.md): Markdown version of the developer resources page
- [OpenAPI 3.1](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/openapi.json): The Levant House Content API specification
- [OpenAPI YAML](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/api/openapi.yaml): Same specification as YAML
- [RFC 9727 API catalog](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/.well-known/api-catalog): Linkset pointing at the Content API
- [MCP Streamable HTTP](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/mcp): JSON-RPC tools for projects, journal, and studio notes
- [MCP Server Card](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/mcp/server-card): Discovery for the Levant House MCP server
- [MCP Server Card (reserved path)](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/server-card): Same card at the reserved GET /server-card location
- [AI Catalog](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json): Domain catalog linking the MCP Server Card
- [Sitemap](https://www.thelevanthouse.com/sitemap.xml): Every public HTML page