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t was quite literally a labour of love for designer Lyndsay Caleo and her sculptor husband Fitzhugh Karol to renovate this stunning five-bedroom brownstone in the heart of New York’s fashionable Brooklyn Heights district. ‘In the three years since we took it on, we got married and had two babies. I was pretty much pregnant or had a babe in arms the whole time,’ says the former jewellery designer, who is mother to Charlotte, two, and seven-month-old Fitzhugh,

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