Property News · January 29, 2017

Bringing a 60s Dulwich house back to life


Midcentury homes can be uninviting from the outside, but they’re wonderful spaces within. Kate Jacobs takes a tour of Francesca Forcolini’s light-filled south London homePeople sometimes dream of buying a house that they remember fondly from childhood, few of us end up living in one that we used to hate. But that’s exactly what Francesca Forcolini, the woman behind hip street-fashion label, Labour of Love, has done. She grew up in a 20s mock-Tudor house in Dulwich in southeast London, and remembers feeling sorry for her friend who lived up the road on this quiet cul-de-sac of late-60s bungalows. “I used to think: ‘Poor girl, those houses are so ugly!’”The girls can scoot and roller-skate in and out, but the bedrooms are cleverly zoned off for privacy Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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