Property News · April 9, 2017

Living by numbers: from factory to designer home | Tamsin Blanchard


Television’s painting expert Pascal Anson shows Tamsin Blanchard around his converted factory home by the seaThe sun is streaming through Pascal Anson’s window. The converted factory where he lives and works is a short walk from Shoreham beach on a street on a spit of land behind the harbour. In the 1950s, when his home was built, fir trees from Norway would be unloaded in the harbour and dipped into a tar pit at the back of his building to be used as telegraph poles. This bit of coast is still pretty functional.He welcomes me through the art deco pink door into the main living area. Anson moved here 10 years ago after his London flat burned down and he was rehoused in a new apartment. The neatness and perfection was too much for him and he decided he needed a space he could make his own. He scraped together the money to buy the Shoreham home and furnished it on a shoestring. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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