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25 Beautiful Homes
|July 2017
After a repeat viewing, Anna Hewitson and David Hobden took on a run-down Victorian house and turned it into a light-filled oasis of calm
Anna Hewitson and David Hobden first looked around their southwest London home on a wet winter’s day, and were not impressed by what they saw. ‘I really didn’t like it,’ admits Anna. ‘My heart was set on a house around the corner, and this one felt gloomy and cold by comparison.’ But when they were outbid on the other property, the couple returned for second visit. ‘This time, the sun was streaming in and we could see its true potential,’ she says.
This story is from the July 2017 edition of 25 Beautiful Homes.
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