Home is where the art is: bright, gallery-like houses and flats for sale from Bethnal Green to Battersea

Perhaps few of us are keen enough to add a gallery to the back of the house, but we could all do with channelling some of the hushed reverence that hangs over an art museum.

Often the former residences of collectors, artists and less defined creative types, these homes speak the design language of a gallery in tall columns, soaring volumes and bright, even light.