ARTFUL APPROACH

Interior designer Andrew Hodgkinson’s appreciation of contemporary art has brought a modern counterpoint to his timeless interiors

- EMMA J PAGE

SITTING ROOM The striped rug and generously sized coffee table elongate this space’s proportions. The mirror was found in a skip and restored and reglazed. Charles sofas, £5,279 each, B&B Italia. Railway carpet Paper Yarn and Cotton, from £943.81, Woodnotes. The coffee table was bought from a collector

HOME TRUTHS

THE PROPERTY Detached Victorian house

LOCATION West London

ROOMS Sitting room, library, study, kitchen-diner, cloakroom, utility room, five bedrooms (three en suite), bathroom

PURCHASED 2012

PREVIOUS PROPERTY ‘We moved here from a late Victorian terrace in Notting Hill,’ says Andrew.

It’s not often that a staircase is thought of as a game changer, but when it came to the renovation of Andrew Hodgkinson’s London home, the redesign of this pivotal element prompted everything to fall into place. ‘The staircase is the backbone of a home and we knew that repositioning it would unlock the interiors for us,’ says Andrew, an interior designer (hodgkinson-design.co.uk) who lives here with his wife Mariann and daughters Freya, 23, and Lucia, 19. ‘So we moved it to the far left of the hallway, enabling an unobtrusive view from front to back.’