STYLE NV - HOMES WE LOVE

Standing in front of Roberta's home, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was just another traditional Georgian  house in Hampstead. But like one of those delightful Georgian writing cabinets you occasionally see on Antique's Road Show, as you begin to enter the home, secret chambers and interconnecting compartments reveal themselves. Once the local workhouse, the building has been a hospital, a school and more recently converted into apartments. Roberta bought the building and set about converting it back to one beautiful family home with the help of architect duo, Serrano Evans. 
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http://www.stylenv.co.uk/homes.php?path=homes.homeswelove&gallery=27

HOMES WE LOVE - Kasper and Julie Rohn

http://www.stylenv.co.uk/homes.php?path=homes.homeswelove&gallery=24

STYLE NV Rant - Stating the Obvious

RANT This is just something that really bugs me - Decorative words I mean WHY?! . .http://tinyurl.com/3xjcmru

Homes that STYLE NV Love - Helena & Bruno Amourdedieu

They say that you can take the girl out of England but you can’t take England out of the girl and I wonder, how much of Helena Amourdedieu’s eclectic Parisian home is French influenced and how much stems from her English pedigree? STYLE NV went to find out for themselves. . . http://www.stylenv.co.uk/p_portfolioInfo.cfm?g=42

Homes that STYLE NV Loves - Malindi & Charles Bryce

People, especially estates agents, are forever harping on about the wow factor. “The bathroom has wow factor, the kitchen gives it wow factor” – blah, blah, blah. It’s an overused phrase and few homes rarely have it. ‘Wow’ should be the first thing that comes into your mind when you enter a home. It’s not about expensive materials or furniture in a home, it’s about a sense of drama, something that you weren’t possibly expecting. Space and colour are usually the culprits behind the ‘wow’ and I think Malindi and Charles’s home has WOW WOW WOW in abundance! http://www.stylenv.co.uk/p_portfolioInfo.cfm?g=39

Homes that STYLE NV Loves - Jules & Marek Middleton

For some it’s shoes, for others, bags, for Jules Middleton, her vice is vintage. There is nothing that Jules loves better doing than whiling away the hours in a flea market, and being a fashion buyer, means that Jules gets to travel around the world and knows to bring an extra large bag with her, when she does!



Jules and her husband Marek, bought this Victorian terrace, on the outskirts of London, five years ago and they have lovingly renovated it, even laying down the parquet flooring that they found lying in piles in the garden shed! I love their genius kitchen splash back idea where Jules & Marek chose cheap anaglypta wallpaper from B&Q and painted it with good quality white kitchen paint. http://www.stylenv.co.uk/p_portfolioInfo.cfm?g=36

Homes that STYLE NV Love - Aiveen Daly

Don’t you just love finding random, interesting things out about where you live? When writing my article for Good Homes magazine for Aiveen Daly’s home, I discovered this interesting and extremely useful fact about the area. Upholsterer, Aiveen Daly lives in a quiet conservation area in north west London called Queens Park Estate. The whole area was designed and built in the late 19th Century for the new middle classes by William Austin for the Artisan Labourers & General Dwellings Company. Unhelpfully the man was a bit puritanical and decided not to build any public houses to tempt those hard working middle classes (boo)! He did however, name all the streets running from south to north alphabetically and the avenues left to right, from one to six. Why is this useful to me? Well, if you have been tempted by the daemon liquor (as I frequently am), in one of the pubs north or south of this area, and you have friends who live in this area that all look the same when inebriated, then you can work out where you are going, whilst wandering aimlessly around!

Anyhow, back to the charming Mrs Daly! http://www.stylenv.co.uk/p_portfolioInfo.cfm?g=33

A Sticky Subject

It's picky, and a titchy annoyance but leaving sticky labels on your plates, bases, glasses whatever and wherever they might be does bother me. Thanks to our lovely HD telly, I see it sticky labels left on everywhere. I even see it on tv in period dramas (set dressers please take note)!!



I confess that I have absent mindedly removed them at friends houses and when I've been styling some of the homes we've photographed (I mention no names), I surruptiously peeled them off. It's a bad habit of mine, which I must try and refrain.


I'm just going say this only once. "Take the bloody labels off!" It looks awful and yes, you lazy lot, it does matter even if it is on the end. The back is as important as the front. It's like the equivilent to wearing a new skirt with the tags left on. You wouldn't do that, would you? Not unless you were trying to follow that ridiculous and thankfully outdated trend of keeping the tags on your baseball cap? (Was it supposed to imply that they'd nicked it or that yhey eanted everyone to know that they were dumb enough to spend so much on a hat)??!


Take the labels off as soon as you get them. It takes a millisecond and If you leave it, the glue will dry and on it will be much harder. If they are particularly stubborn, pour a little bit of lighter fluid (a little stylist tip there) and they will come right off.