...wide she and her husband,
photographer Rich Stapleton, have travelled.
Here, Rosa shares the story of renovating her flat, her love affair with Bath and why beige has got under her skin. Don’t forget to listen to our brand-new podcast that features Rosa as our inaugural guest. Hear her talk ab...
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...sees us meet the owners of our most exceptional homes ahead of their sale. Here, architect Paul Scrivener shows us around his seaside retreat in Lincolnshire, the sales particulars for which can be seen here.
Paul: A friend of mine once said, ‘How do you get to Anderby Creek? You go to the ...
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...Highlands. It is, quite simply, a house, and a view, worth driving for.
Here, Seamus, who heads up Draw Architecture, and interior designer Lucy Day reflect on how they came to own Grianan (the name of the house), how it has improved their quality of life and why they see owning a second home out...
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...n moved to the UK. I’ve always lived in south east London, and I like it here because it’s much quieter than other parts of the city. I was lucky with this place to find a really quiet flat, on a quiet street, in a quiet area.
“I moved around a lot when from ages 11 to 15, and only spent ma...
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...mfortable….
Apart from designing a new family bathroom when we moved here, everything else has evolved. I love that the pieces that surround us have stories, of places we have visited or presents we have bought each other, or from friends.
If you could only save one thing, what would it be...
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...ke in some of the homes we sell with a visit to meet their current owners. Here, architect and founder of Spatial Affairs Bureau, Peter Culley, tell us how he’s reconfigured his Brutalist home on the Whittington Estate, what ten years working in America taught him and where he’s off to next. Che...
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...ner, how to observe your needs and wants and the importance of having somewhere to put your keys.
Ebba: “The best part of being an interior designer is when you can see that you have catered to the needs and wants you have observed in your clients. I think it’s like the moment when a rock sta...
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...ing.
,We visited Martin at home to get his thoughts on using colour, where he finds inspiration and how he lives at home. Subscribe to our newsletter to get more home visits like this delivered to your inbox.
,Martin: “Personally, when I enter a white space I feel like Im being deprived of...
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There are many things to say about Adam Sykes’ renovated modernist house – that it was designed by the Mies-inspired duo Foggo and Thomas in the early 1960s; that it comprises an exposed concrete structure around which expanses of glazing are arranged; that its low-slung, stealthy profile is t...
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...en
Fergus: “We were in a flat in Covent Garden before moving here. All the children were stacked on top of each other, so we began thinking about upsizing in London to get a bit more space.
“We positively didn’t know the area well before we moved here. South London has always be...
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...the house has proved a great place to live – check out the sales listing here.
Ann: “I lived in a Victorian house in Richmond, London, before this and it was totally different. In fact, the scale of this house threw me at first, and we lived here for a year or so taking stock of the place befor...
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...s and designers, vintage furniture and more in home-like retail spaces.
Here, we talk to Alex about life in a lateral loft space, why Soho still retains its independent spirit and what modern luxury means to her.
Alex: “A lot of what we sell in my shop enters my life through my home first. I...
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...former house on Britton Street (she’s a long-term resident of the area). Here, in a revisited version of our My Modern House series, we check in to hear how Della’s enjoying her home.
Della: “In this house, everything is geared around brightness and light. Glass opens up the spaces on each ...
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...ding homes currently on the market and those from our 12-year-old archive. Here, we’re talking to Charlie Russell, our Principal Appraisals Specialist.
Charlie worked in talent management and television after graduating from Exeter University with a BA in Spanish. His interest in mid-century de...
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...ends who had children, we decided that moving closer to family and friends here in Edinburgh was going to be a huge benefit in the next chapter of our lives.
“It was a bit of a leap of faith. We always knew that we wanted to come back to Scotland, but it seemed slightly earlier than we perhaps ...
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...r of baubles, wreaths, garlands, ribbons and candles can be too much. But there’s an art to that, of course, so, for some guidance on the matter, we visited theatre director Sean Mathias’s Georgian townhouse in Hackney to see how a maximalist Christmas is best done.
Sean moved from Hyde Park ...
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...meet the owners of some of our most exceptional homes ahead of their sale. Here, we meet historic paint specialist Pedro da Costa Felgueiras in his restored Georgian house in Whitechapel.
“I call Whitechapel ‘Spitalfields-sur-mer because it has similar historic houses but its nearer the r...
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...of their daily routine. It felt like theyd had a very happy, romantic life here.“I think I thought that everything that theyd set up in the house was the right answer because theyd lived here so long. It was just done in their way. When we renovated it, I was very mindful of the ways they had used...
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...Marlow, and I had been to Montana, which they call ‘Big Sky Country’. There’s a similar feeling of scale here, and I love the relationship between the landscape, sea and sky; it’s magical.
“Peter came here to do a story on a lady in her nineties who had lived in one of the cottages all ...
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...rs, so I suppose that prompted me to start collecting. The retro interiors here are the result of a lot of time spent on eBay!
“I’m a photographer by trade. I did an Art foundation before studying photography and fell in love with the darkroom; the magic of it. I moved to London and started o...
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...t the owners of some of our most extraordinary houses ahead of their sale. Here, Neil Marlow invites us in for a look at his adapted Brutalist flat in London, first designed in 1965 by Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, a practice best known for designing the Barbican.
“The thing about Brutalist buildi...
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...Meet the Team’ series, we’re getting to know The Modern House staff. Here, we’re talking to Sales Team Assistant Katherine Banks about colourful homes, from soft-hued plasterwork to outlandish paintwork.
Katherine joined The Modern House after completing an MA in Architectural History from ...
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...o what life is like in some of the homes we represent ahead of their sale. Here, we talk to Anne and Bruce Page at their 1970s home by the sea in Suffolk, which was designed by the great Modernist architect John Penn.
Anne: “The first time we came to Shingle Street was May Day 1972. I remember ...
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...ast thing you bought for the house?
Plants.
They
just don’t survive here for very long. I’m not sure if it’s me or the
conditions in my flat. My space is bright but only pockets of direct sunlight
beams through – a beautiful etendue but a plant killer.
Top three coffee table books?
...
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...k sellers to reflect on how their lives have been enriched by their homes. Here, we meet illustrator Joe and product designer Olivia Wilson, who modernised much of their Victorian coach house themselves, resulting in contemporary living spaces and a landscaped garden with a countryside-level of priv...
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