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Hot House:  An Area Of Outstanding Man-Made Beauty

Hot House: An Area Of Outstanding Man-Made Beauty

By Helen Costello , Sep 12, 2012

Perched on a sandstone outcrop above the salt marshes of East Sussex, sits a truly beautiful and award-winning home. Lived in and loved by its archite...

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Hot Houses: The Marmite house

Hot Houses: The Marmite house

By Amy Mahoney , May 16, 2012

Film and TV set decorator and antiques shop co-founder Jo Kornstein lives in Kensal Rise, North West London in what she acknowledges is a bit of a 'Ma...

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Hot Houses: Victorian Modernism

Hot Houses: Victorian Modernism

By Helen Costello , Apr 22, 2012

Fashion stylist (and soon-to-be online lifestyle store owner) Jo and interiors photographer Graham Atkins-Hughes have lived in this spectacular house in Dalston, East London since 2001. They share it with their two young...

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Hot Houses: The Marmite house

Hot Houses: The Marmite house

By Helen Costello , Mar 24, 2012

Film and TV set decorator and antiques shop co-founder Jo Kornstein lives in Kensal Rise, North West London in what she acknowledges is a bit of a 'Marmite house', with her partner Henry...

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Hot Houses: The film set

Hot Houses: The film set

By Helen Costello , Mar 3, 2012

Khoi D Nghiem's home is so spacious that his kids learnt to ride their bikes in the living room. This is almost as impressive as the fact that Julia Roberts used to live...

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Hot Houses: Hidden gem

Hot Houses: Hidden gem

By Helen Costello , Feb 5, 2012

Tucked away in a quiet leafy corner of Muswell Hill, North London, sits a stunning timber-framed mid-1980s gem that's home to graphic designers/furniture upcyclers Jenny Lloyd and Jonathan Parkin, Ellie, Joe and Maz...

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Hot Houses: Cluttered minimalism

Hot Houses: Cluttered minimalism

By Helen Costello , Dec 12, 2011

Designer and shop owner Lizzie Evans lives in the top floor flat of her parents' three storey Georgian town house in Canonbury, Islington. She is living proof that you can create a truly...

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Hot House: Regency villa

Hot House: Regency villa

By Helen Costello , Nov 14, 2011

In a quiet conservation area just off the busy Old Kent Road sits a stunning Regency villa and in it live Neil Cunningham: shoot producer, fashion stylist and set designer, Rachel Fanconi: fashion...

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Hot Houses: Swedish chic

Hot Houses: Swedish chic

By Helen Costello , Aug 1, 2011

Photographer Malin Ngoie lives in this week's stunning Georgian home in Bromley South with her husband Serge, two daughters, two cats and a baby on the way. Light and airy, the house is...

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Hot Houses: Val Garland

Hot Houses: Val Garland

By Helen Costello , Jul 14, 2011

Val Garland is not a make-up artist, she's the make-up artist. With her work currently gracing the covers of both American Vogue and Lady Gaga's Born This Way sleeve, it's safe to say...

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Hot Houses: The Beach House

Hot Houses: The Beach House

By Helen Costello , Jun 26, 2011

Interior designer Diana Harvey was lucky enough to grow up in Strangway House, this week's fabulous Hot House, by the sea. These days Strangway House is used for holiday lets and location shoots,...

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Hot Houses: Loft living

Hot Houses: Loft living

By Helen Costello , Jun 14, 2011

Beverlie Manson is a successful children's book illustrator who for 12 years has lived and worked in a Victorian loft in a very fashionable part of East London. A former semi-finalist in Britain's...

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