Uniting the rooms of a bad conversion doesn’t have to mean knocking down walls…Shortly after Kitty Jackson moved into this ground-floor flat in Harringay, northeast London, she met someone who described what their Victorian house had been like before it was split in two. “This older neighbour had lived over the road most of her life, while her sister lived in our house. In the 1970s, their children were always in and out of each other’s homes, but this was always known as the ‘big house’, where the kids loved running up and down the stairs,” says Kitty.The story made Kitty realise that when the walls went up to turn the two-storey house into two flats, their home probably lost a lot of its old character. “The layout felt disjointed, but we didn’t have a clue what to do about it.” The front room, which Kitty and her partner Alex use as a home office/spare bedroom, is separated from the other rooms by a long corridor. This leads into the living room, with the kitchen, bathroom and a bedroom at the back. “While the living room was a good size, no matter how much I shifted our furniture around it looked cluttered and our big dining table dominated the space.” Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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