Ideal Home

Embracing the dark side

Suszi Saunders and her husband Nat moved with their toddler son, Teddy, to this double-fronted house in London’s Corbett Estate from a cramped flat in nearby Lewisham. ‘I’d wanted to take on a wreck, but Nat was worried it would be hellish to live in while doing it up. And he had a point. So what we got instead was something cosmetically bland, with holes in the walls and a gross, studenty kitchen. Not a wreck, but still with plenty for me to do! The house was wide but not

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