Tales of the City

Bloomsbury, you jewel in the crown of London! Leafy and verdant yet bordering the West End. Famed for its Georgian terraces but home also to the imposing Art Deco Library of Senate House at the University of London, and the Brutalist classic Brunswick Centre. The literary and intellectual heart of London, land of Virginia Woolf, […]

A Londoner born and bred, but with influential periods living in Belfast and Switzerland, Lisa Cleary has the dual perspective of being a professional interior designer who has also renovated three of her own homes. The daughter of a builder, she grew up fascinated by the building process and an in-depth understanding of the framework […]

‘I’d always dreamt of living in a New York-style loft so when I saw this place I instantly fell in love with the high ceilings and the open space,’ recalls art director and furniture designer James Stickley of the one-bedroom flat he bought in Forest Gate three years ago. On the top floor of a former warehouse behind […]

Robert Burwood, who runs Story of Home’s lettings operation, offers some clear guidance for landlords and tenants that reflect the questions and subjects that most often arise in the course of his work. Robert Burwood, born and bred Londoner, head of Story of Home lettings. Setting the scene At Story of Home, we are known […]

Paul Archer Design is an award-winning London-based architectural practice with more than two decades’ experience in transforming existing houses into beautiful, functional homes. Emil Neumann studied at Braunschweig Technical University, in Germany, before joining Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands in London. At Paul Archer Design he is committed to the conversion of a client’s requirements into exceptional […]