Property News · August 6, 2017

Costume drama: the story of a colourful Margate home


When a seaside bolthole became a home, its costume designer owner let loose on the interior“Moving to Margate was a no-brainer really,” says Clare Roberts. She and her partner Michael McClatchey bought their four-storey Georgian townhouse on a leafy square as a holiday home three years ago. “We fell in love with the town; the more we visited, the more we wanted to stay,” she says. Which, after a year of shuttling back and forth from a flat in north London, is exactly what they did.Now Roberts, a former costume designer, owns lifestyle store Môr on the seafront opposite the Turner Contemporary gallery. The pair have also put their own stamp on the house. “I’ve always been interested in interiors and design but, having rented many flats, it’s never been an option to let loose with my ideas before,” she says. The couple knocked down a wall on the lower ground level to create an open-plan kitchen/dining/living room and opened up a couple of windows that had been bricked up. Then it was a case of redecorating. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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