{"id":62922,"date":"2017-08-06T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/costume-drama-the-story-of-a-colourful-margate-home\/"},"modified":"2017-08-06T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:02:10","slug":"costume-drama-the-story-of-a-colourful-margate-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/costume-drama-the-story-of-a-colourful-margate-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Costume drama: the story of a colourful Margate home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nWhen a seaside bolthole became a home, its costume designer owner let loose on the interior\u201cMoving to Margate was a no-brainer really,\u201d says Clare Roberts. She and her partner Michael McClatchey bought their four-storey Georgian townhouse on a leafy square as a holiday home three years ago. \u201cWe fell in love with the town; the more we visited, the more we wanted to stay,\u201d she says. Which, after a year of shuttling back and forth from a flat in north London, is exactly what they did.Now Roberts, a former costume designer, owns lifestyle store M\u00f4r on the seafront opposite the Turner Contemporary gallery. The pair have also put their own stamp on the house. \u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in interiors and design but, having rented many flats, it\u2019s never been an option to let loose with my ideas before,\u201d she says. The couple knocked down a wall on the lower ground level to create an open-plan kitchen\/dining\/living room and opened up a couple of windows that had been bricked up. Then it was a case of redecorating. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/aug\/06\/margate-house-colourful-interiors-costume-drama\" target=\"_blank\">Costume drama: the story of a colourful Margate home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; When a seaside bolthole became a home, its costume designer owner let loose on the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-gmS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103971,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/margate-point-makes-another-collective-sale-attempt\/","url_meta":{"origin":62922,"position":0},"title":"Margate Point makes another collective sale attempt","date":"February 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Majority of the owners agreed to lower the reserve price of the Katong property from $38 million to $36.5 million. 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