Georgia and James Broome have revived their once-neglected home by filling it with mementos from years living overseas.
Georgia and James Broome took design cues from a collection of varied and exciting times they had enjoyed while living in Brixton, Dubai and Toronto, plus Georgia’s childhood in the South of France, when they finally settled in their first family home in Oxfordshire. ‘I couldn’t wait to decorate and properly unpack all our belongings we’d collected over time,’ says Georgia, a furniture upcycler and interiors blogger at homemadeproductions.co.uk.
The couple bought the property a few years ago after finding a bilingual school for their children, Olivia, seven, and Charlotte, five, who are fluent in French. At first, Georgia wasn’t interested in viewing this house, put off by a questionable loft conversion and side extension that didn’t meet building regulations. ‘By then we’d had offers rejected on six other properties and this place was the last on the shelf, so to speak,’ says Georgia. ‘It had been empty for two years and was in a poor state, but I was completely taken by the Fifties parquet floor.’
This story is from the August 2019 edition of 25 Beautiful Homes.
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