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The perfect match Couple who fell for a flat — and each other Our home: Page 20 #HABITATVOYEUR London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk 4 WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: billionaire joins bid to make Bayswater beautiful Property New image: pedestrianised search and tree-lined, how the transformation Trophy £3.4 million: as status symbols go, of Queensway this imposing, double-fronted, is set to look buy five-bedroom house in Sands End, SW6, takes some beating. of the The large windows bring in plenty of SHABBY Bayswater is about to clean up its act, with plans natural light and there’s an airy feel for luxurious new apartment blocks and boutique hotels week about the tastefully decorated and in Queensway, the area’s high street. huge spacious reception rooms. Westminster council is aiming to turn the uninviting The bi-fold doors, internal glass road into a pedestrianised boulevard with new paving, helping walls and double-height ceiling in lights and trees to make the area more in keeping with its the kitchen and dining space serve a smarter neighbours, such as Hyde Park and Notting Hill. of wow big helping of wow factor, and the Meanwhile, an unnamed billionaire, who bought the house is topped by a skylit master Whiteleys centre in Queensway in a £500 million deal in factor suite with a balcony. 2013, has announced plans for the historic former in SW6 Through Foxtons. O homesandproperty.co.uk/trophy department store. The Grade II-listed façade will be kept, but the rest of the building will largely be demolished to make way for shops, restaurants, a hotel and flats. London buy of the week gorgeous O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story, and see more exclusive Georgian tops the list in Wandsworth pictures, at homesandproperty.co.uk £650,000: what’s not to love about showcasing a soothing palette of pale this gorgeous Georgian top-floor flat grey walls. White shutters and double hot homes: another Tube in a leafy part of Wandsworth? doors lead out to a southwest-facing In a Grade II-listed building, it offers balcony. Communal gardens and strike? Take to the Thames views over St Ann’s conservation off-street parking are further bonuses. area from two generous double Through John D Wood. Sail through it: bedrooms, plus a modern kitchen Thames Clippers and a plush reception room, O homesandproperty.co.uk/botw services are being doubled Life changer run a fashion from three to up to six an hour boutique by the duck pond £595,000: head to the pretty village of Otford in Kent and AS LONDON faces Tube strike chaos again, the city’s most indulge in some retail therapy with this rustic beauty in a scenic commuting option is busily adding extra services. prime High Street spot, overlooking the duck pond. During last month’s Underground walkout, Thames A spacious fashion boutique and kitchen area are found at Clippers river buses saw a 72 per cent jump in passenger ground level, while the upper floors have a kitchen, beamed numbers. This time round, the number of services is sitting room, a guest bedroom and a master bedroom being doubled to cater for the rush. spanning the eaves, leading out to a roof terrace with views By to the Otford Hills. Through Hamptons International. O Join us as we find homes close to piers from Wandsworth Faye to Woolwich, offering easy access to a river commute — O homesandproperty.co.uk/lifechanger Greenslade see homesandproperty.co.uk/rivercommutes Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty
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Penthouse with A-list views ÉTHE penthouse where St Paul’s Cathedral, the TV presenter and model Shard and the City. Alexa Chung launched her It has four bedrooms, AG Jeans collection is on double-height reception sale for £19.75 million. rooms, four bathrooms In the NEO Bankside and two private roof development, the stunning terraces. duplex, right, which was Studio Reed, which has also used as a filming worked on homes for location by singer Jessie J, A-list stars including offers 360-degree views, David Bowie and Elle taking in London Macpherson, designed
landmarks including the interiors. NICK GUTTRIDGE REX 6 WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with DANIEL LYNCH DANIEL Home advantage: property developer Tom Sherwood lives in SE1 and has big plans for the area’s future Borough has a big appetite for change
HE journey from rough- Foodie favourite Borough edged fringe to über-fash- ionable has taken Borough Market will become a trophy no more than a blink of an attraction when three more eye, or so it seems. This Ttransformation has not been restricted acres of local heartland are to the foodie heaven of buzzing and colourful Borough Market, either — it transformed. By David Spittles includes a wider wedge of postcode SE1, stretching between the Thames and Elephant & Castle. Now Borough is set to move up a Ripe for progress: Borough Market is ment firm whose trophy assets include notch further, with a £300 million set to become more popular still with Burlington Arcade in Mayfair, Whiteleys project complementing its thriving the arrival of new boutiques and homes in Queensway and buildings along Bond food and restaurant scene — a redevel- Street, as well as the Champs-Élysées in opment of the very place that first has been tempted out of the area and Paris. Sherwood’s plan is to turn the sparked the area’s renaissance 16 years will move to new central London railway arches, warehouses and court- ago. The revamp will see dozens of premises. yards into shopping streets, with a Covent Garden-style fashion boutiques, When Vinopolis opened in Borough public square and new passageways. an art house cinema, a private mem- in 1999, it tripped a switch and lit up The area’s original Elizabethan street bers club, loft offices and apartments this forgotten area, full of character names — such as Dirty Lane and Soap High notes: move into the area. buildings and old warehouses. Yard — will be revived, although there are The three-acre site includes a shabby The man behind the district’s next Whore’s Nest is likely to be left in the 55 modern car park but also a network of mag- chapter is Tom Sherwood, a small devel- history books. apartments at nificent vaulted Victorian railway oper who cut his teeth on local schemes. Some say Borough Market has been The Music Box arches now occupied by Vinopolis, the He has secured a deal backed by Meyer losing its way, with higher rents push- in Union Street specialist wine and whisky centre that Bergman, an investment fund manage- ing out long-standing, quirky stallhold- ers in favour of more upscale traders. But 44-year-old Sherwood insists his SHERWOOD’S RISE TO THE BIG TIME project will be entirely in keeping with the cobbled streets and artisan feel of TOM SHERWOOD shifted into which he says gives him an edge. the area, and will dovetail with the property development 10 years ago. “Living here helps me understand existing food market. After a career in advertising, he the area better than most,” he says. “For all its pulling power, Southwark changed direction supported by his However, at the weekends he lacks fashion and needs a wider mix of wife, Jules, an interior decorator. His retreats to the family home, a shops,” he explains. “We’re creating first project was a three-flat scheme honey-coloured stone farmhouse in as many as 50 new spaces and predict in Bermondsey, followed by a pub the Cotswolds. a ripple effect that will continue conversion, both before the 2008 And his top tips for investment? through the back streets of SE1.” banking crash. He then moved on to Sherwood has some property insider This is the Tate Modern/Globe/Shard bigger projects, including a factory advice for the future. hinterland, a prime central address, redevelopment, and spent three He says overspill markets that have whether it is the City or the West End years assembling the constituent emerged at Maltby Street and Druid that looms large in your life. Sitting plots for the Vinopolis deal. Street in Bermondsey are fuelling alongside upgraded London Bridge He lives in SE1 during the week, gentrification, making these still station, the area has become a huge rather gritty areas worth checking business and tourist hub, attracting Get in at the start: the area around out. He admits he is already on the some 50 million people a year. Maltby Street Market, Bermondsey, lookout for local development Southwark council is set to approve
GRAHAM HUSSEY left, is a Sherwood tip for investment opportunities. the project in the autumn. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 7 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property
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From £760,000: flats at The Music Box, above the London Gritty: Elizabethan street Dirty Lane will keeps its name, unlike nearby Whore’s Nest Centre of Contemporary Music
Redeveloped: Brandon House opposite Borough Tube will offer 100 apartments and townhouses New neighbour: 28 homes with roof gardens at Snowsfields Yard near the Shard
might still be considered good value Two Fifty One, in Southwark Bridge Suffolk Street, which runs all the way for money. Typically, new homes in the Road, has 335 high-rise flats in a to Trinity Church Square — a splendid area start at about £450,000 and range 41-storey tower, completing in 2017. Georgian conservation area popular from £800 and £1,200 a square foot, The tower will have a wifi-enabled busi- with Guy’s surgeons and barristers. For lower than most other Zone 1 neigh- ness and home-working lounge-cum- many years, this patch was deemed the bourhoods. café, alongside a private cinema club, wrong side of the tracks, but architects Crest Nicholson has three new gym and other amenities. Views from and design companies are moving into schemes launching soon, including a the upper floors are spectacular and refurbished premises while small plots
ALAMY redevelopment of Brandon House, a many apartments have glazed winter are being redeveloped into flats. prominent corner building opposite gardens. Prices start at £450,000. Call The Music Box in Union Street, CATCH THE SECOND WAVE new homes were niche, mainly small Borough Tube station that will contain DTZ on 020 3468 9251. beside Gordon Ramsay’s Union Street All this cements Borough’s rise as a warehouse and office conversions, and 100 homes — both flats and town- Borough Place in Marshalsea Road Café, is a block of 55 apartments above residential zone and comes at a time were bought by loft-loving locals who houses. is a smaller scheme of two- and three- the new home for London Centre of when a second wave of new housing is knew the area. Snowsfields Yard, a short stroll bedroom apartments, including a Contemporary Music and the National hitting the streets. Now, bigger-budget buyers from from the Shard, has 28 flats plus penthouse with a 430sq ft roof terrace. Youth Jazz Orchestra. Prices from When Borough first “arrived” as a posher parts of town are descending. rooftop gardens. To register, call 0800 Prices from £975,000. Call Greene & £760,000. Call Taylor Wimpey on 020 residential area about a decade ago, Yet despite its growing cachet, Borough 883 8014. The third development, Co on 020 7604 3200. Check out Great 7355 8150. 8 WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Olympic Park homesandproperty.co.uk with HACKNEY
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at the velodrome. But the legacy of the and Karakusevic Carson — starts this 1 T A Wharf 2012 Olympics will be far greater than summer. The homes will go on sale Pudding the record medal haul for Team GB. early next year. TOWER Mill This autumn, the first residents will A planning application for the third move into their newly built homes in phase of the project, with another 350 HAMLETS the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and, to 400 properties, is expected by the over the next few years, thousands end of this year, in the hope of work more homes — from flats to rent to fam- starting next year. Just under a third of ily houses to buy — will launch in five On track: Queen distinct new neighbourhoods. Thousands more homes Elizabeth Olympic Park The next opportunity to own a slice is a firm favourite with of the new E20 postcode will be early will follow as the park West visitors and locals, 0 500 metres next year when more than 200 proper- becomes one of London’s Ham offering a wide ties at Chobham Manor — including Bow programme of events shared-ownership homes aimed at major house-building zones first-time buyers — go on sale. Thousands more homes will follow as the homes at Chobham Manor will be In January this year, the academy was scape will be designed by Fabrik. The the park becomes one of London’s affordable — a mix of rental properties given an “outstanding” report by area should have something for every- major house-building zones. and homes being sold on a shared- schools regulator Ofsted. one, because about 500 of these homes Here is our essential buyer’s guide to ownership basis. will be affordable and aimed at cash- the Olympic Park’s five new zones. A bit of forward planning here might SWEETWATER strapped first-time buyers. A third will be worthwhile, because shared-owner- FIRST-TIME AND EAST WICK be sold on the open market, with the CHOBHAM MANOR ship properties for sale in phase two BUYERS remaining properties rented out. will be launched in January and prior- Big-name Where: in the centre of the park, Prices are not yet available, but an Where: on the north side of the park ity will be given to those already living architects are north of the Olympic Stadium and average two-bedroom flat in the Strat- near Lee Valley VeloPark, formerly the or working in the following areas: involved in beside the Lee Navigation Canal ford area currently sells for about 6,000-seat velodrome where Sir Chris Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Havering, designing Best for: young entrepreneurs and £350,000 and rents for about £1,600 Hoy reigned supreme Barking & Dagenham, Newham, Tower Sweetwater first-time buyers a month. Best for: families Hamlets, Hackney, and the City. homes, below The development will also cater for Expressions of interest are already A PLANNING application covering these families — more than half of its homes THE first of the Olympic Park neigh- being accepted at lqpricedin.co.uk. two areas, with 650 and 870 homes will have three bedrooms or more and bourhoods is Chobham Manor, already Chobham Manor is being pitched as respectively, will be submitted this there are plans to build two new pri- well under way, with 828 homes a “traditional family neighbourhood”, BEST FOR autumn. Expect something special mary schools on the site, plus nursery planned by developer Taylor Wimpey with terrace and mews houses inspired FAMILIES because the developers, Balfour Beatty schools, a library and a health centre. and housing association L&Q by period homes in Islington. More Below left, the and Places for People, have recruited In terms of open space, there will be (chobhammanor.co.uk). than three quarters of the homes have first phase of an impressive team of architects to a park alongside the canal, and new The first phase of 259 homes sold out three or more bedrooms. 259 Chobham design the individual buildings. bridges will connect the site to Hackney fast off-plan after being put on sale last The neighbourhood will also have Manor homes The team will be led by Sheppard Wick and also to Fish Island, with its summer, priced from £375,000 for a shops, restaurants, a health centre and sold out fast Robson with Studio Egret West, Piercy great independent bars and restau- one-bedroom flat to £985,000 for a nurseries. An “all-through” school, off-plan last & Company, Alison Brooks, ShedKM rants. The neighbourhoods will also five-bedroom house. It will complete Chobham Academy, opened in 2013. summer and Astudio all contributing. The land- have their own shops and restaurants, EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 9 homesandproperty.co.uk with Olympic Park Homes & Property ALAMY BEST FOR CULTURE LOVERS Marshgate Wharf by the stadium, with the V&A and a new base for Sadler’s Wells
while office space and workshops will be aimed at attracting start-up companies. Work is due to start next summer, and off-plan sales will follow, with the first residents moving in by the end of 2017. Sweetwater and East Wick should
both be completed by the end of ALAMY 2023. PUDDING MILL MARSHGATE WHARF Where: the south end of the park, Where: beside the Olympic Stadium around Pudding Mill Lane Docklands Best for: culture vultures Light Railway station, above Best for: long-term planners, fans of OLYMPICS chiefs have inexplicably waterfront living, and City workers nicknamed this site “Olympicopolis” and see it as a world-class cultural and THE final piece in the Olympic Park educational district, with a branch of jigsaw, work on Pudding Mill is cur-
ALAMY the Victoria & Albert Museum, new rently not slated to start until 2026, but campuses for University College Lon- it is believed that this timetable may be don and University of the Arts London, speeded up to try to meet London’s a new base for Sadler’s Wells Theatre, insatiable demand for new homes. and a proposed UK offshoot of the A projected 1,292 new homes will be American Smithsonian Museum. built on the 13-acre site as well as two London Legacy Development Corpo- nurseries, office and studio space, ration said Olympicopolis would shops and restaurants. include new homes “but the exact A must for those who yearn for water- number is still to be determined”. front living, the site incorporates part Subject to planning, work will start in of the River Lea, Bow Back Rivers, and 2017/18 and the neighbourhood will be Three Mills Wall River, and homes will complete in 2020/21. be built along their banks. The scheme will also include redevel- opment of the nearby Docklands Light SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE Railway station, which will provide East Wick, left, features up to 870 quick train links to the City and Canary properties with a mix of housing Wharf. Existing period warehouses will types, including homes for first-time be brought back into use as studios and buyers and rented accommodation workshops.
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IT’S MAGICAL A LONDONER These UNDER ZELL AM SEE’S SPELL
ANTONIA COOPER first bedroom apartment and hills are visited Zell am See in 2004 the family have holidayed while studying for a year at there ever since. “We the University of Graz. bought it as a ski home, but alive... “I joined some friends on it is a year-round town and a ski trip there and now I am torn about which immediately fell in love with season I enjoy the most,” the town,” says Antonia, 31, says Antonia. Enjoy a summer a teacher from Teddington. “It is hugely bonding, “It’s beautiful, like a somewhere we can be home and a winter fairytale come to life, with a together. At Christmas, 11 of magical light from the lake us squish in. This year, my playground in the and mountains.” brother’s three-year-old The following year, daughter, Amy, will be on Austrian Alps, says Antonia’s family decided to skis for the first time.” use a small inheritance Antonia married Rob, left, Cathy Hawker from her father to buy a in Zell am See last August. place to enjoy together, and “He had been ski captain at UYERS are quick to fall in love she suggested Zell am See. Southampton University with the magical light, the In 2006, together with her and he loves the town, too,” lakes, the mountains and the mother and two brothers, she adds. “We take every fairytale villages of the she bought a three- opportunity to visit.” Austrian Alps. The area has aB year-round appeal, with skiing the obvious attraction, but visitor numbers season resorts, and the Salzburg region four-bedroom flats attached to the Germany, Holland and Eastern Europe. are growing fast as buyers look for a is much more summer-focused than Adler Hotel, beside the ski lift. Through Mark Warner Property. summer home in a winter playground. the Tyrol,” says Gale. “Hardcore skiers The same family has run this hotel for In the lakeside resort of Zell am See, will always head to resorts such as 35 years and will manage the new SUMMER’S FUN IN KAPRUN an hour from Salzburg airport, many Méribel in France or Verbier in apartments and arrange rentals, esti- “Kaprun offers more family-focused residents from the Middle East are keen Switzerland, but what Austria sacrifices mating average rental yields of between activities in summer than it does in to swap the ferocious heat at home for in skiing miles it more than makes up four and seven per cent. winter, with its pretty church, restau- fresh Alpine air. Their arrival is not in charm and friendliness.” The flats have south-facing balconies rants and mountain views,” says Gale. without controversy — official leaflets and come fully furnished. Prices start “It has a golf course and also one of the advise visitors on how to fit in with NEW BUILD IN HINTERGLEMM from £286,300 for one-bedroom flats, largest, most modern spas in Austria, From £286,300: Residence Adler has traditional Austrian ways. At the head of the Saalbach valley in rising to £1 million for four-bedroom with indoor and outdoor pools, steam flats with south-facing balconies “After five years of new construction, the exclusive village of Hinterglemm, penthouses. So far, 23 apartments have rooms, saunas and slides.” the council recently called a halt,” says Residence Adler offers 40 new one- to been sold to buyers from Austria, Developers Alpin Rentals have two Giles Gale, of Mark Warner Property. projects for sale in Kaprun. Panorama So, with little for sale in Zell, Gale Suites is a development of 12 two- and recommends the neighbouring villages Breathtaking: three-bedroom apartments due for of Kaprun and Saalbach. pretty Kaprun is completion in spring next year. Prices a cheaper start from £251,000, with furniture AFFORDABLE ALTERNATIVES alternative to packages from £18,000. Kaprun and Saalbach are only 15 min- sought-after Nearby Kitz Residence is a refurbish- utes from Zell and significantly better Zell am See. ment of an attractive, typically Austrian From £251,000: Panorama Suites is value at about £360 a square foot for Fine restaurants building into 14 apartments. The due to open in time for next summer prime homes, against £540 in Zell. and mountain final five units for sale start from In winter, one ski pass covers all three walks make it £200,000 for a two-bedroom apart- resorts. Saalbach can claim the largest popular with ment of 947sq ft, through Mark Warner ski area, with 136 miles of slopes, while active families Property. Kaprun has a glacier, providing year- round skiing. Summer activities are O Mark Warner Property: even more extensive, from hiking to markwarnerproperty.com tennis, with Saalbach an especially O All in One Apartments: popular mountain biking venue. zellamsee-kaprun.co.at/en — for flats From £200,000: there are five flats “International buyers want dual- and chalets in the Zell am See area left at Kitz Residence in Kaprun
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By Katie Law MyMyd desddeeses Abigail Ahern TASTEMAKER
ESIGNER, author and retailer Abigail Ahern has a reputation for her uncompromising take on interiors, which was first Dspotted by the New York Times when she worked in America. She opened her first shop in London in 2003 and recently launched her own-label collection of ceramics, furniture, lighting and fake plants. Here, she reveals why her favourite colours are inky and moody, why she loves the Big Green Egg cooker and where to find a cheap but show-
stopping Chesterfield sofa. GRAHAM ATKINS-HUGHES
MY HOME Favourite thing: Ahern blew the MY SECRET SHOP I live in a Victorian townhouse in furniture budget on a concrete chair IN LONDON Dalston. There’s me, my husband, by Willy Guhl, with no regrets Criterion Auctioneers in Essex Road, Graham, and our two dogs, Mungo N1. It’s dusty and can be hit and miss, and Maud, otherwise known as colour, the bathroom is a really but I’ve found the most incredible the two Ms. We’ve been here nearly sophisticated olive green called pieces there, including a huge oil 14 years. When we bought it, it was Wooster, and the bedroom is in painting that looks like a Francis utterly run down. We gutted the Crosby, which is a soothing soft Bacon, beautiful tribal-looking rugs whole place, extended and put in a brown with rosy pink undertones. for less than £100 and Chesterfield double-height glass wall at the back sofas, which they regularly have. looking out over the garden. It’s Sense of style: Abigail Ahern is renowned for her uncompromising approach MY FAVOURITE THING taken ages, but I love everything My favourite piece is a sculptural MOST TALENTED about it now. Willy Guhl concrete chair that I NEW DESIGNER bought 13 years ago — today they sell I’m always on the lookout for new MY STYLE at auction for about £230. talent. I love Hannah Lawrence, who My style is eclectic, moody and My husband was furious. We were makes wood-fired pottery. Hannah glamorous but still incredibly laid- renovating the house at the time and takes influence from and is inspired back. I gravitate towards inky, moody we had nowhere to sit. We needed to by the Japanese concept of wabi sabi colour palettes. My house is painted buy something comfy, but instead I (imperfection) and all her pieces are top to bottom in my own paint range blew the whole budget on this one amazing. — I spent a year mixing and fiddling concrete chair. around with the palette until I We had nothing else to sit on for a SECRET ESCAPE achieved dark perfection. year. I don’t think he’ll ever let me Pinch at 51a Greenwood Road, E8. My large open-plan downstairs forget it. But I love it. It’s Hackney’s smallest wine bar and space is in Madison Grey, which is my secret escape (020 7249 9909; the most perfect bottom-of-the-lake I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT pinchhackney.co.uk). It sells the grey-green hue. My home office My daily cup of coffee, which I drink most incredible natural wines and studio space is full-on noir in Hudson Secret shop: at Criterion Auctioneers sitting in the morning sun out of sweet the owner, Venus, is lovely. It’s Black, the hallways throughout are you might find a cheap Chesterfield or little Vietnamese hand-thrown cups somewhere I always potter out to Mulberry, a sort of bruised berry-red a picture that looks like a Francis Bacon that I picked up from Columbia Road. when I need to recalibrate.
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Favourite restaurant: the Street Feast food market in Dalston, founded by Dominic Cools-Lartigue, inset, is “a magical place” REBECCA REID REBECCA Talented designer: Hannah Lawrence’s wood-fired pottery Secret escape: Ahern goes to tiny wine bar, Pinch, in Hackney FAVOURITE RESTAURANT Street Feast is my favourite haunt. It’s a night market in Dalston that runs through summer. The food and drink is wonderful, from amazing Korean burritos and crispy fried chicken to a gin store and a Tequila Treehouse. Even though it’s super urban in the heart of Dalston, as the light fades and the fires get lit, it turns magical. And I can take the two Ms.
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AL DE PEREZ I’m an early riser, so even for a lazy Sunday I’ll be up at 6.30am for an MONEY NO OBJECT? Money no object: outdoor swim at my local lido. Then If I could splurge, it would definitely a Hermit’s Cabin maybe a stroll with the dogs along be a Hermit’s Cabin designed by by Swedish Regent’s Canal, and breakfast at the Swedish architect Mats Theselius so I architect Mats Towpath Café (36 De Beauvoir could get away from it all (arvesund. Theselius has Crescent, Hackney; 020 7254 7606). com/en/eremitens_koja_en/). They’re just enough My route back takes me via constructed from reclaimed barn room for one Columbia Road for fresh flowers. timbers and come fully furnished. Then a late lunch that I’ll cook on They’re tiny, with only room for one. the Big Green Egg cooker in our Lazy Sunday: an outside lunch using Maybe that’s the appeal? garden kitchen. Simple, but I love it. a Big Green Egg cooker, from £399
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Pride and joy: Dan and wife Nina relax with baby daughter Isla in the garden
LOVE AT FIRST SITE Dan Rowland convinced Nina Constantin he was the one by asking her to look at his radical plans for a run-down basement flat in Ladbroke Grove. By Philippa Stockley
OU don’t only need your Match.com dating website. She knew she finances in place when you wanted to meet someone with a strong plan to buy a property at design background. Her first date with auction — you need a fully Rowland was at Gordon’s Wine Bar at functioning imagination the Embankment. “He brought out the Ybecause places that go under the ham- plans for this flat,” Constantin says, “and mer rarely have natural good looks. You asked me, ‘Can you read plans?’” have to see beyond superficial problems Not your usual chat-up line, but it and, on the viewing day, take with you worked for Constantin. an architect or a friend who has some Rowland had already done up a couple design experience. of properties while training as an archi- That’s the advice of architect Dan tect. He was living in Dulwich and scour- Rowland, 38, who bought the garden flat ing auction catalogues when the he now shares with his wife, designer one-bedroom, one-bathroom basement Nina Constantin, 36, and their six- flat in Ladbroke Grove came up through month-old daughter, Isla, back in 2011, Savills. It was being sold off by a housing when it was so different it would now be association after the tenant had died. unrecognisable. When Rowland went to the viewing, What followed the purchase is a the place smelled terrible. remarkable story of love, death and “It was rancid,” he says. underpinning. The back garden was piled so high Constantin, who trained in furniture with earth and rubbish that you couldn’t and product design in Leeds, runs two tell its size. As well as the living room at successful design businesses — one that the front, there was an old coal chute does shop fit-outs and window displays and coal cellar, both full of rubble. A knew I would take walls out and make there had been the coal cellar (there is Light touch: for big retailers such as Ted Baker and bedroom and poky kitchen, in a small a three-bedroom flat,” says Rowland. even a window, now), put the master left, a triple Selfridges, as well as a prop-making busi- dog-leg, were at the back. So, by the time he whipped out those bedroom at the front, with a terrific bay pendant light is ness originally started by her parents. At the auction, Rowland overheard his plans in the wine bar, he had got planning that gets so much light it doesn’t feel like a striking feature Four years ago, Constantin was living main competitor say they didn’t think permission to extend at the back and a basement, and a big living-kitchen at of the kitchen, Photographs: : in a shared flat in Notting Hill and, the flat could be converted into two drop the depth about 2ft 8in to allow for the back. He installed full-height sliding designed by #HabitatVoyeur recently single, decided to go on the bedrooms. “But the minute I saw it, I a double bedroom at the front, where doors and a French door, so that the back Rowland EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 21 y.co.uk with Our home Homes & Property
Natural look: WHAT IT COST the light-filled Flat at auction in 2011: £419,000 kitchen has a Money spent (excluding fees): bare-brick about £250,000 feature wall, Value now: £1.6 million while Rowland made the kitchen ROWLAND’S TOP BUYING TIPS table himself O Take an architect with you. Look at the big picture, don’t be put off by superficial things that can be fixed, but do take advice. O Check down the street and see what neighbours have done. Ours had extended at the back, which set a precedent that helped convince the planners. O Look on Google Earth — you can see what people in the street have done. O The difference between a good architect and a builder is that an architect is trained to see opportunities that a builder won’t.
CONSTANTIN’S TOP DESIGN TIP Lighting is so important, it affects your mood and sense of wellbeing, as well as being transformative. I feel anxious in a badly lit space.
GET THE LOOK Architecture and kitchen design: Dan Rowland at studio1architects. co.uk Additional design: Nina Constantin at formroom.com Appliances: duravit.co.uk Ceramic tiles in bathrooms from CDS Tiles, in W11, at cdstiles.com Steel dimmer switches and other hardware from Nuline at nu-line.net Floor-to-ceiling sliding windows by Sky-frame at sky-frame.net/en Hand-blown triple lights in kitchen from Rothschild & Bickers at rothschildbickers.com Teal Paintbox rug in third bedroom from Bluebell Gray at bluebellgray. com Constantin sources furniture from places such as Rockett St George at rockettstgeorge.co.uk, Not on the High Street at notonthehighstreet. com, and etsy.com Buxus balls in front garden are from Sangwyn Landscapes, which also built the garden, at sangwyn.co.uk
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Opening doors: 10ft-long glass splashback, which the centre, Rowland builders didn’t think could be done. All got planning the floors here are polished concrete, permission to while an exposed brick wall actually uses extend at the surface-mounted, sliced reclaimed back, making bricks to striking effect. But the first space for the thing you notice is a triple pendant light large kitchen that Rowland watched being blown. “Lighting is the most important thing,” Stepping it up: Constantin says. “As this was Dan’s flat, left, the garden I didn’t have input at the start, but we is laid out on worked together on details, and the four levels, all interiors and colour schemes. I lightened surrounded by it and added subtle tones — pistachio in raised planters the small bedroom, eau de nil in the master, and yellow and turquoise in the third bedroom.”
HE job ran over time. “By then, we were desperate to move in, so we set a date for a party, regardless,” Constan- tin says. “Dan and I were liter- Tally laying the last bit of terrace as our wall is almost entirely glass, looking on second date happened on site. “He’d Rowland was at the house every day use the same palette of ceramic tiles, first guests arrived.” to the stylish garden. Here, plenty of earth taken all the walls out and you could see working alongside the builders, and sprayed MDF and poured resin floors, It’s hard to believe this spacious, light, was removed and a corkscrew willow tree right through to the back garden,” designing and making things, too — such have computer-generated Corian sinks stylish flat — used for the trendy, upcom- was moved to a central spot. With all the Constantin laughs. as nifty cantilevered steps down to the designed by Rowland. ing #HabitatVoyeur project, the Habitat excavating, there was a lot of underpin- “But that’s when I knew he was the one, third bedroom, and a kitchen table and The kitchen was built on site, bar its home brand’s online “sneaky peek” into ning and a lot of steel required. because he talked with such vision and bench made of steel and oak. Corian worktop. “That way, it only cost the way creative people live — came from Naturally, Rowland and Constantin’s passion. We see things the same way.” The three en suite bathrooms, which £7,000,” Constantin says. It also has a such an unpromising start. 24 WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Design homesandproperty.co.uk with Crate Britain HEY have always been used (establishedandsons.com). Authentic as makeshift furnishings, old crates are getting pricey. They sell but today, crates are part of for £25 to £35 from salvage hunters such that fashionable industrial as Chloe Beattie and Dale Broome of look, according to Sophie Raspberry Mash in Manchester (rasp- Bush,T editor of Warehouse Home berrymash.co.uk). Veteran of crates is (mywarehousehome.com). “There’s a Mark Bailey, who has been popularis- real feel for freight in London homes, ing their use for 20 years and has fea- from upcycled pallets and packing tured them in his book Imperfect Home cases to cargo-inspired cabinets for (Ryland Peters & Small, £25), written storage,” she says. with his wife, Sally. The Baileys used to Crate furnishing is perfect for renters, buy crates from English apple-growers, adds Joanna Thornhill, author of Home but supplies have run dry, and now for Now (Cico, £16.99). “Crates are they bring in lorry-loads from rural 1 2 strong, hard-wearing and versatile, with France (baileyshome.com). a certain no-frills charm and, when you The nicest “new crates” are made by move, just shove in your stuff and go.” hand from reclaimed wood, and may This sort of furnishing has a design be as expensive as “real” furniture. Rupin Rughani, is fashioning pieces LOAF’S King Crate Mate shelves are frame. Priced at £827, it is available pedigree. In 1934, the Dutch modernist A new London company, Reason from discarded materials, including 2 handmade from reclaimed fir with a from artisanti.com (0345 259 1410). designer Gerrit Rietveld, a leading Season Time, run by entrepreneur wine barrels in the US and old timber in bleached finish. Just over 5ft 4in high, member of the De Stijl art movement, India. Particularly striking are the they are priced at £495. See them at THIS is Kare Design’s Ipanema chair, made perhaps the first furniture from robust and chunky metal cabinets made 2 Exmoor Street, W10, and watch out 5 using a patchwork of old woods, “crate wood”. Today, you can buy a from old metal shipping crates, in for a new Loaf store coming soon to decorated with water-based paint and numbered edition of his chair from canary yellow — perfect for that London Battersea (loaf.com; 0845 459 9937). then wax, £125 from amazon.co.uk London-based Iconic Dutch — but at loft (reasonseasontime.co.uk). £795, it’s not a normal crate price. A WOODEN apple crate with two A VINTAGE-STYLE Coca-Cola crate More recently, London minimalist A WALL of immaculately assembled 3 shelves costs £39.95 from 6 wall shelf (about 2ft high) costs £79 Jasper Morrison had wine crates in 1 crates in a café in LA was the plantabox.co.uk (01392 829977). from vincentandbarn.co.uk mind for his pieces for Established & inspiration for Swedish studio Rebel Sons, which include storage and a chair Walls. They got it photographed and THE Peterfield oak storage bench BUY a piece of crate history with turned it into wallpaper, which costs £33 4 has four crate drawers, made from 7 Gerrit Rietveld’s chair. Made from a square metre from rebelwalls.co.uk unfinished oak, with a solid wood untreated Louro Gamela wood, each chair contains a chip, is numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity from Rietveld Originals. It costs £795 and is available from iconicdutch.com
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4 5 6 7788 26 WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Outdoors homesandproperty.co.uk with Prairie pizzazz Perennials perfect for late-blooming borders T THIS time of year, prairie complement the daisy-like flowers of perennials, planted in velvety red Helenium Moerheim drifts, are what make a late Beauty or my favourite, pure yellow summer border look sen- Helenium Butterpat, with raised, sational, taking it through golden-brown centres. toA autumn with plenty of pizzazz. Prairie perennials will attract masses It’s not hard to emulate the prairie look of bees and butterflies, but you could if you have a large garden, but if your add to the busy buzzing by planting patch is small, restrict yourself to just a Sanguisorba officinalis Red Thunder, few plant varieties, or the prairie look because the deep red, bobbly flowers will become the dolly mixture look. atop the tall, slim stems resemble per- One of the great features of this kind manently hovering insects. of planting — long-stemmed flowering You could also cool things down with perennials in rich, fiery shades teamed a late-blooming border — or group of with swishy ornamental grasses — is containers — that sing the blues in high the varied shapes and textures of the style. This covetable quartet of bud- flowers themselves, such as the bobbly dleia, salvia, phlox and verbena will heads of sanguisorba, the large, flat also pull in the butterflies and bees, discs of achillea and the fuzzy spikes which are attracted to blue more than of red-hot pokers. any other colour. If you have the space, Plant these contrasting silhouettes mildew-resistant Aster frikartii Monch, cheek by jowl and you get the most with the familiar lavender-blue daisy flowers, could be included. Buddleia is renowned as one of the Pattie finest nectar plants, but if you don’t Barron have space for one, bring in a Buzz. Bred by Thompson & Morgan to stay compact, the four-strong Buzz collec- tion boasts plants half the usual size — a total height and spread of about special of effects. Monarda Squaw, for four feet — but with full-size flowers. instance, has the showiest of tufted, My own Buzz Sky Blue is currently bright scarlet flowers, a bit like a blooming on stems just 1ft 7in long, cockatoo, and makes a great foil for the content in a container. Verbena bon- flat flowerheads of rusty-orange ariensis, with those tall, wiry stems Terracotta, which has the bonus of very topped with clusters of mauve flowers, pretty fern-like foliage. is indispensable for creating a veil at Like many prairie perennials, both of the front of a border, but offspring Some like it hot: these plants form attractive seedheads, Lollipop is a smaller version at just two Achillea so don’t cut them back until early feet instead of six feet-plus. Terracotta’s flat spring. Salvias are usefully drought-tolerant flowerheads If you’ve never grown grasses, add a and famously long flowering, and keep on coming Stipa tenussima into the mix and you Amistad, a glamorous newcomer, will until early will see what all the fuss is about — produce its pinky-violet tubular flowers autumn silken, fluffy plumes that billow in the on long black stems until October, then wind and shimmer with golden glints start all over again next May. in the late-summer sun. All you need Blue Paradise is the apt name for a do is cut it right back in early spring. Phlox paniculata with large trusses of Kniphofia Royal Standard is the fragrant lavender-blue flowers suitable Gardening classic red-hot poker in shades of red for cutting, so that you can bring a little problems? and yellow, but you could also plant a of the late summer border indoors. Email our RHS subtler-coloured, shorter kniphofia, expert at: expert such as Tetbury Torch, tinted a luscious O For outdoor events this month, visit gardeningadvice @gmail.com apricot yellow. Both of these would homesandproperty.co.uk/events & SUSAN WILLMOTT MODERN, DESIGN ADELE FOTD - MID CENTURY BORKOWSKI GAP PHOTOS/ELKE GAP PHOTOS/DAVE ZUBRASKI GAP PHOTOS/DAVE BLOOM GAP PHOTOS/RICHARD Fuzzy flowers: the bottle-brush heads of Harmonious trio: Kniphofia Tawny King, Phlox Sanguisorba Menziesii crowd the slim stems Franz Schubert and Helenium Waltraut 28 WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Property searching homesandproperty.co.uk with Spotlight
Happy days: children enjoy Streatham the sandpit at Benson’s Funfair on Streatham Common Little bit of Payne but there is plenty Getting better: Streatham High Road has seen improvements to be gained It went from posh to Family-friendly: spacious properties in Gleneldon Road poor with Britain’s worst high street. Now Streatham heads for middle-class heaven, says Anthea Masey HE owners of the Pratts & Hidden down and replaced by branches of Lidl, Streatham Common. Meanwhile, smart Payne pub in Streatham, treasures: the Argos and Peacocks, Pratts is much- developer London Square has planning south London, clearly have secret garden at mourned and locals blame its closure permission for 243 flats, shops and a a sense of humour. The 19 Pop-Up Bar in for the later decline in the fortunes of 120-seat theatre. “Payne” refers to Cynthia Leigham Hall the town centre. There has also been gentrification as TPayne, Streatham’s notorious Parade, SW16 Streatham is five miles from central the middle classes priced out of Clap- “Madam Cyn”. London and is bisected by the busy ham and Balham — and in more recent Her sex parties at 32 Ambleside A23, which runs along Streatham High years, Brixton — migrate to Streatham Avenue, reputedly attended by law- Road, named Britain’s worst high street in search of big family homes. yers, doctors and vicars, came to the more than a decade ago. attention of police, who raided the Since then, millions of pounds have WHAT THERE IS TO BUY house in 1978 and again in 1986. Her been spent on regeneration schemes, Streatham has a mix of Victorian, subsequent trials attracted huge media reducing many old buildings to rubble. Edwardian and later interwar houses, interest. Caesars nightclub, famous for its detached, semi-detached and terraces. After the first, she spent four months enormous four-horse Roman chariot There are also large blocks of Thirties in Holloway prison for running a sculpture above the entrance, has been flats in the Streatham Hill area, mainly brothel. At the second trial she was demolished, along with all but the along the High Road. Pullman Court is acquitted of controlling prostitutes. façade of the old Megabowl building. a landmark modernist block, designed Still going strong but no longer hosting After years of delay, the joint venture in 1936 by Sir Frederick Gibberd. parties, Payne, 82, is a popular after- between Tesco and the local council, The area attracts: Gabriel Cunning- dinner speaker. known as the Streatham Hub, delivered ham, of Foxtons estate agents, says For those with long memories, Pratts a Tesco superstore, more than 200 new buyers are coming from the firm’s was a John Lewis store that closed its Photographs:: homes and a replacement swimming sister offices in Battersea, Clapham, doors 25 years ago. Eventually knocked Daniel Lynch pool and skating rink close to Fulham and Putney and from central WHAT’S ON THE MARKET? £500,000 £820,000 £1,675,000 A PENTHOUSE in a listed building in THIS three-bedroom house in Christian Fields, A SIX-BEDROOM property in quiet Mortimer Close, Copgate Path, with two bedrooms and an exclusive residential road, features a Streatham Hill, has been remodelled to create an great views over parkland (Hamptons). manicured 100ft rear garden (Streets Ahead). excellent entertaining space (Foxtons). O homesandproperty.co.uk/copgate O homesandproperty.co.uk/christianfields O homesandproperty.co.uk/mortimerclose ) " (( $& "&$! &$(%+ &.%, To in Streatham, visit -&% - find a home homesandproperty.co.uk/streatham * & $'$ #%, ForF more about Streatham, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/spotlightstreatham EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 29 homesandproperty.co.uk with Property searching Homes & Property
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another five. Perseverance pays off — as Diary of an estate agent hopes fade, the last couple of properties turn out to be gems and Murdi puts forward an offer. Then it’s back to the hotel to introduce our friend to some Last-gasp deal is interior designers. THURSDAY a roaring success Still in Hong Kong, I meet a lady who recently bought a fabulous house in London and needs someone to let and MONDAY to add to his portfolio. We have organ- manage it. We’ve met before, but now First phone call of the day comes when ised a tour of what will become some is my chance to persuade her we’re the I am still in the gym. It’s from a search of London’s finest addresses, but are, best firm for the job. I understand her agent desperate for a rental property for now, expensive holes in the ground. preference for a low-key approach and for an important client. We have already identified the best explain that most of our business is I have the perfect apartment in mind, development for him. Happy with our done off-market. It helps that we have but it’s on sale for a cool £30 million, recommendation, he chooses two several shared connections who can so I call the vendor on the off-chance apartments and then offers £15 million attest to how we work, and I leave with they will rent it out. for something else we show him, just the instruction. Job done, I head for the Frustratingly, they’ve already agreed as a pied-à-terre. airport and line up some viewings. terms to rent to another party. How- At 5pm, another client calls to say she ever, that deal is looking shaky, so we is on her way to Washington airport FRIDAY have until close of play to better it. and will arrive in London first thing I land with a bump. Flash floods over- We show the flat to the client, who tomorrow for a full day of house-hunt- night have damaged one of our man- agrees to meet the asking price of ing. We frantically work to organise a aged properties and the basement is £20,000 per week. The offer is tour. After numerous calls and a lot of submerged. While I head over to the accepted — provided the deposit is in luck, we manage it. Let’s hope she house, Murdi makes calls to get drain by 6pm. But it has to be wired from turns up. Meanwhile, it is time for me specialists and some good old-fashioned Switzerland and there is a chance it to rush home to collect my bags — I am muscle to help with the clean-up. On a won’t clear in time. off to Hong Kong. positive note, we have three viewings The race is on. It’s 5pm and our pro- lined up for our new instruction. spective tenant is at London Zoo. I WEDNESDAY And there’s time for one last surprise. dispatch my colleague, Murdi, and — By late afternoon, I land in Hong Kong An ex-Wimbledon champion has sent with minutes to spare — the agreement and take a breather before meeting a me tournament tickets to thank me for is signed by the lion’s den. client for a catch-up over some authen- work done earlier this year — a nice tic Chinese cuisine. serve to round off the week. TUESDAY Meanwhile, back in London, “Miss A long-standing Russian client is with USA” has arrived, so Murdi meets her at O Mark Tunstall is managing director us for a meeting today. A man of few Claridge’s, ready for a punishing tour of of Tunstall Property in Knightsbridge words, he is here to invest £10 million nine houses before lunch, followed by (020 3011 1775; tunstallproperty.co.uk). 36 WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Letting on homesandproperty.co.uk with Watch out, sparky’s about HEN an electrician I had hired to carry Victoria Whitlock wants her tenants to be out a routine inspection of the safe — even the pesky ones. But she blows a wiring in my four- fuse over an estimate for routine electrical work Wbedroom rental flat gave me the estimate for repairs, I nearly fell through the floor: £5,500. around the tenants, there would be He said it was necessary to rewire no need for them to vacate the the whole flat, which would also The property and no need to redecorate, mean redecorating, adding another so I would save more than £8,500. £2,000 — £3,000 to the bill. As the accidental My brother, who carries out work would be seriously messy, I’d property renovations, told me of a have to ask the current tenants to landlord client of his who had a similar leave for at least a month, during problem. She was presented with an which I wouldn’t receive any rent. estimate for several thousand Together, the work would cost me just too lazy to change the bulb. pounds by an electrician hired by her £460 a week: this two-double-bedroom flat with wooden floors, just off about £10,000, which was roughly There were a lot of other items he letting agent to carry out an Baker Street in the W1 postcode, is available to rent immediately through 10 times more than I’d anticipated. had classed as equally dangerous, “electrical installations condition Dorchester Properties London. Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/alrent I was gobsmacked, especially as such as a couple of loose plug report”, which isn’t a legal there were none of the telltale signs sockets, which only needed requirement for owners of small it is vital that landlords make sure do so as the risk in most rental that anything was wrong with the tightening with a screwdriver. rental properties, but it is a good idea their properties are safe, but they are properties is negligible. wiring in the first place. It all seemed I started to wonder if this to have one every five years or so. expensive enough to maintain Are agents just finding more quite modern to me and the tenants electrician had gone totally over the Since the electrician deemed the without us being hoodwinked into ingenious ways to top up their hadn’t reported any problems. top, either because he wanted to milk wiring unsafe, the letting agent paying for unnecessary work. commission, or are they actually Of course, I wouldn’t want to risk a landlord or, more charitably, refused to allow a new tenant to I have also heard that now some protecting their landlords and giving my tenants an electric shock — because he was super-cautious. move in until this woman had at least letting agents are insisting landlords tenants? not even the most annoying of them I asked another electrician for a arranged a date for the electrician to pay for professional risk assessments — but no one spends 10 grand second opinion, and — much to my carry out the repairs. for legionella, a bacteria sometimes O Victoria Whitlock lets three without giving it some thought, so I relief — he guffawed when he read My brother arranged for another found in water systems that can properties in south London. thought I would take a close look at the first electrician’s report. He electrician to take a look. He said cause severe pneumonia, even To contact Victoria with your ideas the electrician’s report. agreed with my layperson’s opinion only half the work was necessary, though they are not legally obliged to and views, tweet @vicwhitlock I became suspicious when I saw that a complete rewire was which he did for half the original that he had classed a faulty kitchen unnecessary and suggested he carry quote, and produced a report for the Find many more homes to rent at light as “potentially dangerous”. It is out only the essential repairs, at a agent to show that the wiring in the not dangerous, the dopey tenants are total cost of £1,500. As he could work property was totally safe. Obviously homesandproperty.co.uk/lettings
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