Seasonal Style

Helen and Philip welcome us into their Lisburn home at Christmas, which is full of seasonal charm as they prepare to celebrate the festivities with their three young children.

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This new build Georgian style house in Lisburn has been home to Helen and Philip for two and half years and they’ve now had the chance to enjoy two Christmases here with Heidi the dog, their children Adeline and Lucas, and this year will be the first for baby Cohen.

Once inside the front door straight in front of you is a feature staircase that leads upstairs to four bedrooms, two of which have ensuites, and a large family bathroom. Back downstairs, to the right there is a formal living room which is still to be finished and to the left a door that leads into the main open-plan kitchen/living/dining area.

‘We spend all day, every day in this part of the house,’ explains Helen. ‘It is the perfect space for the whole family and I just love all of the natural light that streams in from the orangery.’

Within this open-plan space the family’s dining table divides the kitchen space from the living space in the orangery. What you can’t see is the children’s playroom which is cleverly hidden away behind a secret door in the kitchen.