DESIGN FOR LIVING

Having been unable to find a house to suit their family, Jianne Coe and her husband Pate extended a small semi to get the space they needed

- DOMINIQUE CORLETT

KITCHEN-DINER/LIVING AREA

The layout of the units provides a natural divider between the different spaces.

Metro tiles in Sage Green, £25sq m, Topps Tiles, would suit this scheme. Enhet cabinetry, from £34 a door, Ikea. Nero riven slate tiles, from £18sq m, Mandarin Stone, have this look. Green sofa, price on request, Living Room

HOME TRUTHS

THE PROPERTY

Extended Victorian semi-detached house

LOCATION Hertfordshire

ROOMS Sitting room, kitchen-diner/living area, cloakroom, three bedrooms, bathroom

PURCHASED 2012 PREVIOUS PROPERTY

‘We were living in a two-bedroom flat in north London before moving here,’ says Joanne.

When interior designer Joanne Coe and her husband Pete were house hunting in a leafy part of Hertfordshire, their property search was stymied by a lack of available houses within their budget. ‘We’d been living in a two-bedroom flat in Finsbury Park and wanted to move out of London for a better quality of life and good schools for our daughter Evie, now aged 11,’ says Joanne. But there were very few three-bedroom properties and the larger four-beds were out of our price range. So we set ourselves the challenge of finding a two-bedroom property that could be extended to provide the extra space we needed.’