A Brave Auction Buy and a Clever Conversion
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Wednesday 15 January 2014 Cupboard love Homes& Statement storage Property Page 12 TEN NEW SUPER-SUBURBS P4 RENT OUT YOUR CLUTTER P8 THE YEAR-ROUND GARDEN P27 SPOTLIGHT ON KINGSTON P32 A brave auction buy and a clever conversion One young couple tell their story: Page 24 SIMON MAXWELL London’s best property search website: homesandproperty.co.uk 2 WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: Property Don’t move, improve — and in partnership with get free advice from an expert search Full of ideas: the Slim House, far left, and the London buy of the week Tower House, left, two winners one L of a place in Peckham of Don’t Move, Improve! awards £750,000: if you’re looking for something special, this award-winning home off leafy Peckham Rye Common, SE15, is a must-see. 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Usual rules apply, see homesandproperty.co.uk/rules EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY 2014 3 homesandproperty.co.uk with News Homes & Property Join the Hollywood Linley’s secrets in an £8.5m home set at Shepperton ÉFOR townies with country living in mind, Kylemore House, right, in É CELEBRITIES are frequently Kingston upon Thames, is a new spotted in the neighbourhood seven-bedroom beauty 800 metres around Shepperton Studios, where from Richmond Park and close to blockbusters including The Omen, Coombe Wood Golf Club. Alien, Shakespeare in Love, Thor On the market with Savills for sequel The Dark World and, more £8.5 million (visit homesand recently, the Muppets sequel property.co.uk/kyle), it is on the were shot. GETTY hugely desirable Coombe Hill estate, Next year, the new Avengers home of tennis player-turned- movie will be made there, turning market with Jackson-Stops & Staff in broadcaster Annabel Croft. house’s striking kitchen with hand- Surrey into a Hollywood hotspot Teddington for £3.25 million. The neighbourhood has long painted walnut units and secret again with a big-name cast The Fifties-built, riverside house attracted the rich and famous. drawers was designed by David including Scarlett Johansson, was home to Sixties TV personality Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood Linley, right, son of Princess pictured, Elizabeth Olsen, Chris Barbara Kelly and her husband, the lived opposite the entrance to Margaret and Lord Snowdon, and Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr, actor and writer Bernard Braden. Coombe Park, and media mogul chairman of Christie’s UK — all good Samuel L Jackson and Mark Ruffalo. 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His 1,200sq ft Hackney home is a The reality TV A-lister wants to part-converted factory with exposed recover from her break-up with brick walls, red firehoses and steel basketball player Lamar Odom after pipework, giving it an industrial feel. four years and thinks that leaving the The sleeping area is screened off with home she shared with him will help. antique doors but the rest of the The custom-built, seven-bedroom space has an urban, airy look. spread, with a bling home gym, has “I love open-plan living. To make been seen on TV in Keeping Up with the this work you’ve got to think about Kardashians and spin-off series Khloé how you store things and carve up & Lamar. On the market for areas for different activities,” says the £2.7 million, the glamorous property is 34-year-old, who has teamed up with located in the upmarket Mulholland furniture brand Hygena to create a GETTY Park area of Los Angeles. guys’ guide to modern living. BATHROOM SALE/C.P. HART NOW ON EST. 1937 4 WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with From £264,995: for flats (above and top) at London Square, Ruislip. The low-rise blocks in the scheme surround communal gardens. Call 0333 666 2636 for details HIS new year heralds a new era for the suburbs, after a 10-year focus on central London and inner-city Seize the day: the super-suburbs regeneration. Attention is Tnow turning to commuter territory, with planners taking a keen interest in The inner city once stole the headlines but community buildings, allotments, patterns triggered by London’s growing the 86 acres of green belt land in cycle sheds and transport. night-time workforce. Greater London that could become now outer London is the big story with 10 Leo Hollis, a self-proclaimed “urban- There is a huge shortage of new housing and parkland.