Synopsis
The adage ‘Don’t move, improve’ could easily have been coined by Natasha Sloman and her family, whose ingenious and radical reconfiguration of their 1930s North London flat has resulted in a home that seems infinitely more spacious than before.
Not willing to move from their vibrant neighbourhood and put off by the city’s rising property prices, they decided instead to revisit the layout of their ex-local authority flat. ‘We looked at lots of houses in the area but the prices were so prohibitive,’ explains Natasha, an NHS Head of Social Work and Social Care. ‘Neither of us wanted to be a slave to a mortgage, so we decided to stay here and dramatically transform the interiors.’ Natasha’s husband Farrah, a doctor, had lived in the flat since his student days, and although he had made some decorative alterations, the flat’s layout remained the same. But with the family, including Farrah’s son Shehzed, now 22, and the couple’s youngest Alessio, seven, all living under one roof, it was time to make the space work harder.
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