Loved back to life
This tenement apartment in Edinburgh had been a shared student rental house for years when Tokes Sharif first looked around it. The property was in a pretty grim condition, with peeling paint on the walls, cigarette-burned carpets and an outdated kitchen. ‘Still, I loved it, though!’ says Tokes. ‘It had a lot of character. And it’s unusual in this area to find a ground floor apartment with a private front entrance, and a little front garden.’
As they were renting the flat, Tokes and his
