{"id":105341,"date":"2019-03-23T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/going-with-the-flow-in-a-london-flat\/"},"modified":"2019-03-23T23:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:02:49","slug":"going-with-the-flow-in-a-london-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/going-with-the-flow-in-a-london-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Going with the flow in a London flat"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nUniting the rooms of a bad conversion doesn\u2019t have to mean knocking down walls\u2026Shortly 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. \u201cThis 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\u2019s homes, but this was always known as the \u2018big house\u2019, where the kids loved running up and down the stairs,\u201d 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. \u201cThe layout felt disjointed, but we didn\u2019t have a clue what to do about it.\u201d 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. \u201cWhile 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.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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