Ideal Home

Getting the mix right

Returning to Denmark, having been stationed in Angola and then South Africa for several years, Cathrine and Anders de Lichtenberg were looking forward to setting up home somewhere permanently. ‘We’d been living out of a suitcase for years,’ says Cathrine, ‘so it was great to finally make plans for a home of our own. When I found this apartment, before showing it to Anders, I sat down with an architect and came up with a plan for what we could do, so I could then convince Anders that it was the

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