Ideal Home

PUTTING DOWN roots

HOME NOTES

WHO LIVES HERE?

Paul Clarkson, head of Home at M&S, lives here with his husband Phil Thomas, an interior designer, their three adopted children and Dawson the dog.

THE PROPERTY

A five-bedroom semidetached Thirties property in west London, transformed with extensions, a garage conversion and garden room.

THE VALUE

They bought the property for £1,025,000 in May 2019.

When Paul Clarkson and Phil Thomas were looking for a new project, they wanted to find something with enough potential to create a spacious family home for their three children. ‘When we spotted this place, we got

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