Property News · February 18, 2017

Embracing Moroccan style: not just a holiday romance


They met in Morocco and have filled their family home with vibrant, vintage north African findsBringing bright, beautiful finds home from your travels can be tricky (and many an object loses its charm somewhere between marketplace and baggage reclaim). But Tamsin and Duncan Flower have partnered vibrant north African weaves with vintage furniture and pale walls to create a home that works for family life – their son, seven, and daughter, two – but still keeps its well-travelled character. “Moroccan rugs fill the house,” Tamsin says. “They instantly change the mood of a room.”The house, in Dollis Hill, north-west London, needed a lot of work, including replacing a makeshift kitchen extension with a corrugated plastic roof. “I could live with everything else, but that had to go,” she says. A large roof-light and bifold doors now make the north-west-facing kitchen-diner as light as possible. No-nonsense Ikea kitchen units were finished with bespoke wooden worktops by a local carpenter, and slick handles from Franchi. The pair also reinstated fireplaces (ripped out in the 1960s) and sanded the floorboards. “When we bought the house, there were shagpile carpets in every room,” Tamsin says, “but the upside was that they had kept the boards well protected.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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