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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ruth Bloomfield

How one couple transformed an east London wreck into a rainbow dream house

When Vicky Winner and Jake Holloway bought themselves a run-down Arts and Crafts house the property had not been maintained or modernised for decades.

Once the couple had done the boring bits — getting the roof redone, fixing subsidence, switching single glazing for double, replacing rotten floorboards, and sourcing and tackling widespread damp – they were ready to have some fun.

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