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Little Place Cottage

In the dappled light of a sunny Oxfordshire morning, we headed for a Seventeenth Century cottage perched near the gentle banks of the Thames. Situated in Clifton Hampden it was updated in the Sixties by Christopher Gibbs, as a country retreat away from his celebrity customers in London, Paris, New York and Marrakech. It would…

Scawen Rd

Built to Passivhaus standards, this collection of homes designed by Roberts and Treguer overlooks Deptford Park, and has access to a shared garden, allotment and Dutch greenhouse at the rear. Created in collaboration with Urban Grower, the space fosters a sense of community and appreciation for cultivating fruit and veg. As so much of the…

Bushey Hill Road

When staging a house like this 1901 beauty for a client selling through Inigo, Petra and I try and get a feeling for the energy of the place. We feel into the bones of the building. This house, a living embodiment of South London’s turn-of-the-century residential charm, where Victorian grace meets the burgeoning Edwardian spirit,…

Nelson Crescent

One of the delights of our job is the places we visit and so any excuse to go to Ramsgate to work on a house that evokes this ancient seaport is fine by us. Jane Austen often visited her brother Captain Austen here and you can imagine her walking along Nelson Crescent. She loved this…

Black House Farm

Nestled within the serene and captivating landscape of the South Downs National Park, lies a magnificent property boasting 20 acres of private land, encompassing rolling fields, wildflower meadows, fertile agricultural expanses, and protected forests. This architectural masterpiece is the brainchild of  Robin Lee with Nadim Khattar, who artfully combined a C17 thatched-roofed farmhouse with a…

Invisible House

We were so excited to work on The Invisible House project, set amidst mature trees and decorated with black pools and fresh ferns, we could barely sleep the night between the delivery and staging. BPN architects and owner developer Steve Smith’s collaboration deconstructs a traditional house set on a site in Morton Paddox near Royal…

Great Eastern St

Magma architecture did a stunning job bringing curves in black to the heart of this project on Great Eastern Street that sits in a former factory. Now it was our turn to bring in texture with plants and soft furnishings to soften the huge barn style ceilings, wood floors and brick walls. When we first…

Coach House, Bristow Mews

This renovated Victorian coach house with its original sign embossed with the year of the coach house’s initial construction in 1895 is the first you come upon in this secluded mews set back from Palace Road where houses curve around a central courtyard and sit next to a reservoir. Designed by MW Architects and Kinland…

Bristow Mews

Part of a small development comprising three homes in total, MS Property Staging was delighted to dress one of two newly built houses set back from a road between Tulse Hill and Streatham and a short drive away from Brixton.  Set next to a reservoir, this particular Bristow Mews home has been cleverly designed as…

Talisman

 If you travel the length of the New King’s Road in London you will find it hard to miss this former Art Deco garage that is lovingly known as the ‘Talisman Building’ in homage to its former ground floor shop, a Mecca to the best Twentieth century antiques in town The Talisman.   It was…