Property News · May 20, 2018

The dilapidated Victorian house that’s now ‘indestructible’


Rebuilt and filled with reclaimed pieces, this family home in north-west London has been given a new lease of lifeFlora Bathurst is surveying her back garden with dismay: scattered on the lawn are a bright red robot, a Nerf gun, a toy trolley and a large plastic cash register. “I have tried to do my best to keep it under control,” she says. “But there is an inevitability to small people’s stuff.” Bathurst has lived with her husband and two young children in this terraced house in north-west London for just two and a half years, and already she feels the place is “silting up”.To the outsider, Bathurst’s home is an exquisite assemblage of design classics set against a considered selection of reclaimed materials, but at heart – both literally and figuratively – it’s a hard-working family home. Bathurst, who is a director of photography (and Elle Decoration alumnus), worked with the architect Anthi Grapsa to conquer and corral the toys. The solution is twofold: a corridor of cupboards and a handsome utility room. “I had to fight my husband, Andrew, for the utility room,” says Bathurst. “But knowing how much time I would end up in there doing washing. I wanted a proper space for that.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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