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Fleur Britten

"This House is Not a Cookie-Cutter Space" — How Focusing on Wellbeing Brought Character Back Into This Renovated London Townhouse

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"We made some controversial decisions with the space," says Bee Janaye, the 29-year-old founder of up-and-coming design studio Janaye. Bee had been instructed to reconfigure a four-storey London townhouse (in collaboration with an architecture practice) that had previously been divided into four separate apartments into a modern home for one family.

And with the client keen for a "deeply personal forever home", says Bee, she was free from the constraints of designing for resale.

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