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Lisa Mehydene combines a collector’s eye for detail with a talent for seeing the bigger picture. This came to the fore when she and her husband directed the renovation of their south-west London home from almost 7,000 miles away.

‘We were living and working in Singapore, so all the conversations with builders and decorators happened over Skype,’ she explains. ‘The first time we saw the results was when we moved in. We’d viewed the house on a trip home, and the style of the property and the area were familiar to us

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