CITY CHIC

By pooling their design skills, Chelsea Dixon and Robert Bühler now have a home with a distinctly Parisian feel

- SERENA FOKSCHANER

Chelsea Dixon and her husband Robert Lars Bühler were starting a family when they began to think of moving house. ‘I’d just come out of hospital after having our son Forest, when I spotted an ad for the house in an auction catalogue,’ says Chelsea. ‘It was a essentially a seven-bedroom bedsit in pretty ropy condition. But it was unusually large for a London townhouse and I’ve always loved this street so I knew we could do something special with it. A week later, Rob rang to tell me: “I’ve bought the house. Now we have to find the deposit!”’