Deft Touch
The clients had lived next door for 11 years before buying the “rundown, falling apart, dilapidated property” that’s now their remarkable home-studio designed for flexible future use. Before their elderly neighbour died, he’d been happy enough with the four rooms and rear lean-to kitchen and bathroom he’d grown up in and was unfazed by the absence of heating. “We essentially bought the place because we didn’t want to see it knocked down,” the client explains. Given its rotted state, that’s precisely what the building report and most architects had
