Period Living

LIVING THE LIFE

or Damon Wilkinson and Todd Law, the experience of living in an Art Deco house, embracing every aspect of the period - right down to everyday appliances and household wares - is a lot more gratifying than grating, they say, despite the odd 21st-century lifestyle sacrifice here and there… ‘The main thing I like about living in this house is the fact that our level of consumerism is a fraction of anybody else’s, because there are no trends to follow. We don’t think, “we did this room 10 years ago, it’s time to update”. It’s a case of

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