{"id":44680,"date":"2017-02-18T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/embracing-moroccan-style-not-just-a-holiday-romance\/"},"modified":"2017-02-18T18:09:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T11:09:21","slug":"embracing-moroccan-style-not-just-a-holiday-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/embracing-moroccan-style-not-just-a-holiday-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Moroccan style: not just a holiday romance"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThey 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 \u2013 their son, seven, and daughter, two \u2013 but still keeps its well-travelled character. \u201cMoroccan rugs fill the house,\u201d Tamsin says. \u201cThey instantly change the mood of a room.\u201dThe house, in Dollis Hill, north-west London, needed a lot of work, including replacing a makeshift kitchen extension with a corrugated plastic roof. \u201cI could live with everything else, but that had to go,\u201d 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. \u201cWhen we bought the house, there were shagpile carpets in every room,\u201d Tamsin says, \u201cbut the upside was that they had kept the boards well protected.\u201d Continue reading…
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