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HOMES Victorian Flat

RIGHT ‘I love auctions
because you can find
things that have fallen out
of favour and then give
them a whole new context,’
says Linda. The replica
Chinese terracotta warrior
head was bought at
Criterion Auctioneers. The
bespoke kitchen is painted
in Hudson Black by
Abigail Ahern with marble
worktops. BELOW The
dark floorboards flow into
the wooden decking in the
garden, and Crittall-style
windows add an industrial
edge while enhancing
the connection between
interior and exterior.

works as an artist and interior
designer. ‘I’ve always been able to
visualise things in 3D,’ she says. ‘Even
when I was li!le, I was fascinated by
boxes and would stack them together
to make bigger structures. I guess this
"at is a larger, shinier version of my
childhood games.’ Linda is referring
obliquely to the design centrepiece
of the "at: a mirror-glass cube that
sits between the living room and the
bedroom, acting as a room divider
with a di#erence.
‘We wanted it to look as if a great
shiny box had dropped down from
outer space,’ explains Linda. ‘We le$
a gap at the top and the bo!om so it

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