In holiday mode
Living room
Clever use of colour is a hallmark of this home. Here, the palest-of-pale-blue walls perfectly show off the dusty pink sofa and chartreuse armchair.
BUY THE KEY PIECES Try Vittsjo nest of tables, £45, Ikea. Carolina Black bamboo side table, £103.20, Buyfair, is similar Lesley Sykes, a client relations director for a global travel company, lives here with husband Rupert, a property developer and interior designer for hotels, and their sons William, six, and Finn, three.
“Our main aim was to create a flow between indoors and out”
THE PROPERTY A four-bedroom Victorian terraced house in Cape Town, South Africa.
THE VALUE Similar houses in the area sell for around 10mZAR (£511,000).
