At last, our hallway feels like home!

The hallway and landing in this 1930s, four-bedroom, semi-detached home in Hampton, Middlesex, had long been on Alison Horn’s to-do list. ‘It was the last space in the house to be decorated and it just didn’t fit in with the rest of the rooms, which was frustrating, but there was a good reason for waiting.’ Alison, an art teacher, and her husband, Erik, an import/export manager, bought the house 18 years ago, just before their children, Eleanor, 17, Amelia, 14, and Edward, ten, came