Synopsis
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Vera Farrants is at pains not to offend the previous owners of her flat, whom she knows and likes. All the same, it is clear that she wasn’t impressed with their taste. “I don’t want anything nasty said about them, but she had very different ideas compared to what I think, so let’s just say it was very ... different,” she tells me.
She found the property full of bright colours – red, pink and green paint and wallpaper - and the stairs were made of dark wood.
The lighting was almost “zero,” she tells me, with centre lights everywhere and bare bulbs and surface lighting in the downstairs area.
“It’s clear that she had thought about parts of it and wanted to make it homely, but I found it non-descript. Of course, these are all subjective judgements,” she adds hurriedly.
Nevertheless, Vera, whose mother was Russian and whose father was Italian, wanted something “diametrically opposed” to the previous owner’s design: a sense of lightness, openness and breadth.
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