...计师描述 | Designer description: This project begins with a touching love story of the investor. “We fell in love with each other when we were both young - the high school was full of dreams and ambitions. But after finishing my senior year, I had to move in Ho Chi Minh City to live with my ...
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...es we have for sale. Here, we speak to actor Siân Phillips about her long love affair with London at her home just off Brick Lane, currently for sale.
Siân: “I fell in love with London the second I set foot on the platform at Paddington. I had arrived from Wales to start training at RADA and ...
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...I much prefer it – it’s edited to the more classic pieces I really love.
My boyfriend, George, and I have lived here for seven months, having bought the place from The Modern House in 2017. We’d been renting around the corner and looking for somewhere for over a year with not much luck,...
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... it didn’t look like this when we bought it. It wasn’t built with much love: it was full of corridors, the ceilings were low, there were lots of bedrooms and not much living space, and there was carpet everywhere.
“Before buying it we had come very close to purchasing The Framehouse via The...
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...ally when I have the doors to the balcony open in the summer.
“I also love the area. I’d always lived in west London, previously in Holland Park and Notting Hill, but De Beauvoir Town really drew me in.
“But, and perhaps most importantly, I felt this house had a soul to it, with a lot of...
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...ot of the rooms hadn’t been used very often, so it felt unlived-in and unloved. I remember when we first viewed it the curtains were drawn in most of the rooms, so natural light was limited and it felt like a bit of a shell.
“Although the house wasn’t on the High Street, which is where we w...
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...perilous, so unbelievably steep, it was crazy.
“Still, I just fell in love with it. I love the position of it. The front of the house faces down a street, rather than towards another house, so the views from the windows create a sense of space. It’s a small thing, but it makes you feel safe...
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... blue cheese on crumpets and lots of white wine on every viewing. It was a lovely way to buy a house.“By the time we exchanged, we got to know them well, and I had a lovely insight into the way that they’d enjoyed the house together over the course of 40 years, but also as part of their daily ro...
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这位明亮而多姿多彩的女士座落在瑞典哥德堡。
室内墙壁洁白,色彩鲜艳,木质地板丰富,墙面裸露,增加了个性和个性。
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..., but we wanted to move eastward because a lot of friends live here and we love the architecture and village-like atmosphere of De Beauvoir. And it’s near loads of bars and Kingsland Road, so perfect for Dan as he goes to a lot of gigs for work.
“It was still very much a shop, or like a typic...
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“I moved here with my partner, Tycjan Knut, from a lovely flat in a Georgian building in Stoke Newington. Since then, we’ve been based in this creative live/work space in an old warehouse building near Seven Sisters.
“Were both from Warsaw. We studied together nine years ago. Tycjan is a...
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...ll throw everything out,’ and I cannot do that. I have so much stuff I love and so much stuff that I know I will purchase eventually, so it’s about making space for those things and allowing them to live within your environment.”
Joshua opted for mismatched black dining chairs in the kitche...
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...experience, you end up spending the money you save on rent!
“We still love Hampstead and we miss the Heath a lot. But down here it feels like there are lots of people at a similar stage to us, who perhaps work in similar industries and are the same age.
“I work on the Saturday Feast sectio...
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...ng from a media examination, so you have to be yourself absolutely, but we loved it. It was quite a good way of questioning what we were doing at each stage, because you have to make a convincing case, and be confident about what youre doing, which is a good discipline to have. And it worked out wel...
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...to me.
“The most important thing was to find something interesting. I love the history of factories and their relationship to making and manufacturing. Living in one felt like a way to celebrate what it was. I just fell in love with it.
“The apartment is spread over two floors and the livi...
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...erlooking Highbury Fields. It was a red-brick Victorian building, which we loved but had outgrown. “We tried to buy a modern house in Highbury, but that fell through and we ended up in a Georgian house that backed onto the Regent’s Canal. It had four floors with a room on each floor…so very d...
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... my mum.
“You could call it snobbery, but it wasn’t. They genuinely loved making things with raw materials. They spent hours at it, going to the countryside to pick rose hips or whatever, and coming back to make jam.
“It’s the same with this house, which was a labour of love and a prod...
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...e of my neighbours was having work done. I asked to have a look inside and loved how the architect had opened the space up. I asked who it was, and that’s how I got in touch with Simon Astridge.
“Simon and Ruta Dumciute, the project architect, were absolutely fantastic and I really enjoyed th...
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... of previous dwellings. “This home is the continuation of a 100-year-old love story between a magical spot on the land and the people who fell in love with it – and a reminder of how transient our lives are, measured only by what we leave behind,” says Jencquel.
The two-story building faces...
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...at five different, but very similar, houses and then visited this one on a lovely sunny day. I walked in and just thought “This is it”. It was the perfect size. I didn’t want something that I’d feel lonely in when my children weren’t around.“I really liked the townhouse charm, with just ...
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... exactly what we were after. It was structurally sound but in need of some love, so it gave us the blank canvas we wanted to make some quick improvements before planning something more transformative.“We worked with Gary at Studio 304 to completely reorientate the rear of the house, turning a dark...
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...especting its roots and retaining the 17th-century cottage look we fell in love with at the front.”
Ian: “As we both have a lot of experience in building and carpentry we were able to do all the work ourselves apart from the brickwork. It meant we were able to give our architect, Jonathan Sar...
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...roperty in the same building and it became available. We instantly fell in love with the 1930s Art Deco features and large Crittall windows. It’s a really charming space and the building has a lot of character.
“We were living with friends in an ex-council flat in Hackney before we found this...
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...ying to find a way that we could get outside a bit. In London we live in a lovely loft-style apartment but it doesn’t have any outdoor space, so being able to sit here and look out to the sea is the nicest thing. We’ve been here for almost 10 years now.
“It’s a simple space but it’s the...
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... joking about doing a new-build. We ended up putting an offer in!“Andrew loves concrete brutalist architecture, but we couldn’t do that here as it’s an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the house had to reflect the local vernacular. We worked with England Architecture, which is run by Nic...
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