LET THERE BE LIGHT
ometimes you walk into a home and wish you could whizz back in time to ask a previous occupant what on earth they were thinking. “Some rather strange design decisions were made here in the 1970s,” says the owner of this Georgian basement flat in Edinburgh’s New Town, recalling how the once-soaring ceilings had been lowered and the delicate period features ripped out. Viewing it on a summer’s day, though, the rooms washed in the sun’s warm glow, she could see it still had
