Period Living

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THE STORY

OWNERS Selina Gardner, founder of Faded Charms (@fadedcharms), an antiques and vintage business specialising in perfectly worn pieces for the home and garden, lives here with her husband, Stuart, a data engineer, and their grown-up son, George

PROPERTY A semi-detached, 1930s brickbuilt four-bedroom home in a Surrey market town. The house is laid out over three floors, including a loft conversion

The house mostly needed cosmetic work to take it from a brash 1980s look to a more sympathetic one. Selina and Stuart stripped it back to the

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