The English Home

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n a picturesque street in North London’s Primrose Hill, Jack Davidson, who has recently launched his own interior design studio, and his wife, Rebecca, have created a quietly English idyll. Chancing upon an early Victorian stucco-and-brick townhouse languishing in “bohemian chaos” was an exciting moment for the young couple, who had been living in leafy Hampstead but were yearning for something they could put their aesthetic stamp on. “I grew up between London and Gloucestershire, so the countryside is in my bones,” explains Jack. “Whereas Rebecca is an urban girl through and through. Our compromise was to find somewhere in London to create a feeling of a country house

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