Character STUDY

‘The starting point is to think about the inherent characteristics of the building and how to enhance and highlight that’

Stepping into Brandon Schubert’s light and airy home in Belsize Park, it is hard to imagine how neglected and unloved the space looked just a few short years ago. Back in 2013, Texas-born Brandon and his husband Will were ready to take on a project and could see that this dated flat on the ground floor of an elegant Victorian property was full of possibilities. The house had been converted into three flats in the 1970s and the one they viewed had not been touched since then. “The previous