Period Living

INTO THE LIGHT

Complete with Artex walls, stone-clad bar, plastic window frames and red carpets, the period cottage Alice and Leon Moylan first viewed couldn’t have been further from its Georgian blueprint. However, as a lighting designer, Alice could see it had a bright future.

‘We bought the house in 2014; this was our fourth renovation but the most challenging yet as the whole house needed renovating. We had two young children, a house in

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