The English Home

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‘I felt like it was mine immediately, so I had to make it happen. It’s very sweet and how I’d always imagined a little cottage would be’

Having often admired the rows of pretty Victorian workers’ cottages with their charming gabled porches on her favourite street in Kensal Rise in London, interior designer Charlotte Boundy could barely contain her excitement when one came up for sale back in 2010. “I’d been living in a one-bedroom garden flat in Shepherd’s Bush and I really wanted to graduate to a little house so I could go upstairs to bed,” she says. “When I started thinking about moving, I knew I would love a worker’s cottage.”

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