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HOMES Victorian Flat

beams, concrete and bare brickwork
le! exposed rather than plastered over.
‘I wanted a raw, un"nished feel,’ Linda
explains. Rather than hanging pictures
directly onto the bare walls in the
conventional manner, paintings are
suspended from the steel beams using
a clever system of wires, metal hooks
and strong magnets.
In the living room, there’s more
rough brickwork, partnered with
plenty of wooden panelling painted
a sophisticated ma# black for added
contrast. Linda and Darin also scoured
reclamation yards for additional
architectural elements such as plinths,
pillars and corbels to create further
drama in shadowy corners.
The smoke-and-mirrors look
of this $at hasn’t always been Linda
and Darin’s style. The couple met
in their native Canada and lived
in the US and Paris before se#ling
in London eight years ago. ‘All of our
homes have been di%erent,’ says Linda.
‘The feel of this one was inspired by the
Victorian architecture in particular

The dining room extension, designed by Architecture &
Urban Design Bureau, was created to feel like a separate
box, emphasised by the change in building materials and the
skylight. The dining table and chairs were found on eBay.

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