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‘I live in a converted garage’

Having renovated her previous home in London, Amie Oyston was looking for a new project when she was told about a run-down single-storey brick building in Hackney, east London, that was ripe for conversion. ‘It was originally part of a steelworks, then later it was used by a mechanic

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