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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Juliet Benning

A basement extension gave this tall, skinny house extra living space

Open plan kitchen living space with green sofa and wooden dining table with crittall sytle doors to courtyard garden.

Harriet and Andrew had been living in a 15th-floor apartment in London but craved a home closer to the ground and more connected with the nearby leafy spaces. When they found this Georgian townhouse in the area, it ticked all the boxes, especially as it had a garden.

The one issue? The property lacked lateral living space and that much-wanted connection with the outdoors. Fortunately, while the property had been improved before they bought it, when the sale went through, Harriet and Andrew inherited architectural drawings and planning permission that hadn’t yet been realised.

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