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Double the fun

We stripped out the entire house, removed every chimney breast, extended the ground floor, built into the loft and dug out and extended the basement,’ says Émilie Mauran, of the renovation work on her London home. ‘The house was 130sq m when we first saw it. Now, it’s 285sq m!’

More than doubling the house’s volume may seem ambitious, but when you discover that

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