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£595,000: minutes from Lake Windermere, this three-bedroom, three-bathroom villa with a self-contained lower ground-floor flat would make a great boutique B&B. The double-aspect sitting room is

warmed by a wood burner, while the Shaker-style kitchen/breakfast room is open-plan to a lovely conservatory/garden room. Through Carter Jonas.

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£1,495,000: gorgeous Georgians are all very well but to show you have both style and a conscience you need to go ultra-eco and modern. Derico is an effortlessly cool new build in Farnham, Surrey, surrounded by leafy grounds and a vast expanse of Canadian cedar decking. It has a flexible open-plan interior with a 28ft Poggenpohl kitchen/dining area and four bedrooms. Through Strutt & Parker.

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£560,000: the Gothic listed Royal Victoria Patriotic Building is home to this lofty flat overlooking Wandsworth Common, with open-plan living spaces and stripped wood floors throughout — perfect for parties. Sleek wood-and-steel stairs lead to a mezzanine level with study area, plenty of storage space in fitted

wardrobes and a sleeping deck tucked under the eaves. There’s a charming courtyard garden with a lily pond and ducks, plus private parking. French restaurant Le Gothique, also housed in the building, will deliver food up to the flat. Through John D Wood.

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A NEW generation of eco-friendly homes has put fires and fireplaces centre stage as a design feature, ensuring that the

flames of the property market are burning well through the cold winter months.

Unlike the gas-guzzling and fossil fuel fires of yesteryear — expensive to run and damaging to the environment — today’s versions are chic and energy-efficient as well as cosy.

Like Georgian and Victorian developers before them, 21st-century builders are using fireplaces as an architectural statement. Innovative “gel” fires have all the benefits and none of the drawbacks, in that they look good and are carbon-free and low-maintenance. Fulham Reach is a 744-home scheme between Putney

and Hammersmith Bridges, on a remarkably tranquil section of the Thames favoured by scullers and oarsmen. Penthouses have a superb “floating” fireplace that acts as a divider between an open-plan lounge and dining area.

Cut into a bright metallic floor-to-ceiling panel, the abstract design creates a stunning focal point alongside sumptuous soft seating and invites natural light into the apartment, which covers a huge 5,266 square feet. Priced at £8.95 million. Call 020 7879 9500.

Fires also figure prominently at 375 Kensington High Street, the royal borough’s biggest housing development for decades. Amenities at this complex of apartments include a spa, underground parking and concierge services.

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BREWERY WHARF is a rare new-build scheme in Twickenham alongside the River Crane, which joins the Thames there. Georgian-style townhouses in a gated mews have interiors of a free-flowing open-plan design, left, with lounge and well-equipped kitchen.

Prices from £1.25 million. Call 020 3002 9457.

WHY not go house hunting during the festive break? Developers are opening up this Christmas to offer buyers the chance of choosing a new home for the new year.

Like beautifully wrapped Christmas gifts, show homes are intended to tempt buyers. If you are going to buy anyway — and you like the designer’s style — then the show home could save you a lot of time and money. You can pick up extra furnishings, fixtures or even commissioned art, at competitive prices. The Galleries, above, in Brentwood, Essex, is a fabulous redevelopment of a former Victorian asylum by City & Country, who are experts at restoration building.

There are 131 homes carved out of the listed buildings and cloisters. Decorative stonework, Gothic arches, cast-iron columns, timber beams, oak staircases, mouldings and fireplaces have all been retained and restored, while the original garden designs have been reinstated. Former needlework blocks have become loft-style apartments and even the deconsecrated chapel is now a special triple-height residence.

Just launched are flats in the clock tower featuring roof trusses and exposed brick walls — and ceilings high enough to accommodate a very tall Christmas tree.

Prices from £375,000. Call City & Country on 01277 202122.OPEN-PLAN “super-

rooms” come into their own in the festive season.

These large, free-flowing spaces are the answer to easy entertaining over Christmas and throughout the new year.

“Such spaces are always the hub of a home, whether a house or an apartment,” says Sean Ellis, managing director of developer St James, whose research shows open-plan living is a number one design preference.

No longer does the dining room feature — modern lifestyles demand more flexible interiors. Buyers are encouraged in this by popular television cooking

programmes that feature celebrity chefs in their own kitchens, promoting relaxed home entertaining.

Open-plan family spaces at Marryat Place, Wimbledon, combine all the key elements, including champagne fridges and flat-screen TVs. A double-height glass atrium throws in light, and bi-folding doors open on to a terrace and garden.

The scheme comprises a group of large townhouses with up to six bedrooms, set in a private cul-de-sac close to the All England Club and Wimbledon Village centre. Prices from £2.65 million. Call 020 3697 9330.

fireplaces that add a sculptural element to the contemporary interior design. Prices from £930,000. Call 020 7118 0375.

At Chelsea Creek, apartments have a feature stone wall with integrated gel fire framed in black polished marble, while at Ebury Square, Pimlico, glamorous apartments also have glowing fires that you can snuggle up to. Prices from £1.95 million. Call 020 7118 9111 for further details.

Hearth and home: flats at Chelsea Creek, left, have a stone feature wall with integrated, eco-friendly gel fire

Party-perfect mansion flatsMODERN mansion flats at Hurlingham Walk, Fulham, provide functional open-plan interiors, left, that link with fully lit terraces and are perfect for entertaining during the party season. Prices from £650,000. Call 020 8246 4199.

Raise a glass to open-plan style

From £2.65 million: Marryat Place townhouses, Wimbledon

COMBINE a Christmas shopping trip to the West End’s luxury retail quarter with a visit to a bespoke new homes gallery in Berkeley Square.

Behind a discreet Downing Street-style high-gloss black door, developer St George’s new showroom is a marble-floored space with interactive models of the company’s London projects, which can be viewed on a giant screen. Under one roof, you can study specification details and floor plans and even get simulated views from particular apartments, such as those at One Blackfriars, left, a new 50-storey skyscraper being built on the South Bank.

Walk-ins are welcome between 10am and 6pm and by appointment at weekends, while a chauffeur can pick you up from your home, your hotel, or even from the train station or airport, to visit the showroom and chosen schemes. Call 0808 178 2000 for more details.

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And you thought you couldn’t afford itShared-ownership options bring hip Hoxton within reach of first-time buyers, says David Spittles

HOXTON is super-hip these days but still takes a pride in its raw, unpretentious history. Not much more than a decade ago it was

still a gritty, grey, working-class district — a place for have-nots rather than haves. Today its further ascendancy seems assured, yet there are still homes available for first-time buyers eager to join the area’s mix of old and new cultures.

While fancy factory lofts cost more than £1 million, more modest homes, including ex-local authority flats, start at about £350,000. What’s more, the East End’s charitable housing roots run deep, meaning there are shared-owner-ship and rental deals for lower-income Londoners committed to the area.

Mondrian is a new development on the site of former Mildmay Mission Hospital, close to Columbia Road Flower Market in the Hoxton heart-land. Genesis housing association is offering a choice of tenures to suit dif-ferent lifestyles and budgets. One-bed-room flats cost £1,725 a month to rent, or £141,250 for a 25 per cent shared-ownership stake. To buy the same flat outright would cost £565,000. Green design — triple glazing and solar heat-ing — keeps running costs low. Call 0800 542 7236.

Former Queen Elizabeth Children’s Hospital in Hackney Road has been rescued as part of Mayor Boris John-son’s affordable homes initiative. Behind the listed Victorian façade are 186 flats, many with views across Hag-gerston Park. Due for completion in 2016, prices start at £365,000, with shared-ownership options available through Family Mosaic housing asso-ciation. Call 020 3376 7775.

Hoxton Square, the area’s beating heart, is an attractive urban space, shielded from council estates and the busy traffic swirl that surrounds it. Most of the square has been gentrified and you pay a premium to live there. A two-bedroom flat in a portered, purpose-

built block is on the market for £625,000, through Foxtons on 020 7033 1414, while estate agent Green & Co seeks offers in the region of £800,000 for an 820sq ft loft space in an authentic warehouse with big windows and high ceilings. Call 020 7251 8877.

RUBBING ALONG Hoxton is one of the few places in London where the busi-ness world and an artistic community happily co-exist. City bankers and law-yers reside in apartment buildings where less-prosperous live-workers have design studios, and they hang out in the same bars and restaurants. Yet the price dif ferences bet ween addresses within a short distance of each other can be yawning. In Pitfield Street, a three-bedroom maisonette,

a right-to-buy resale, costs £449,950. Call estate agent Victor Stone on 020 3463 0065. A two-bedroom ex-council flat in Bevenden Street is £425,000. Call Foxtons on 020 3318 6437.

Developer Crest Nicholson has arrived on this patch and will soon be launching The Bevenden — 42 apart-ments, priced from £475,000. Call 020 3764 0693.

People living or working in Hackney borough have priority to buy shared-ownership flats at Shoreditch Heights, part of a swish new private development in Britannia Walk, a fash-ionable pocket that includes Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant. Two-bed-room flats cost from £157,500 for a 30 per cent share — full price, £525,000. Call 020 7089 1315.

£425,000: for a two-bedroom flat in Bevenden Street in the heart of Hoxton, in a sold former local authority block (homesandproperty.co.uk/hoxbevenden)

£449,950: if you want gritty, this three-bedroom ex-council flat is in Pitfield Steet, N1 (homesandproperty.co.uk.hox)

£141,250: for a 25 per cent shared-ownership stake in a flat at Genesis’s new Mondrian scheme, near Columbia Road

£157,500: for a 30 per cent share at Shoreditch Heights, with priority for locals

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New generation — new designWhen Anahid and Simon Jarvis married, they returned to her family home and transformed an old Victorian flat into a stunning spacious apartment ideal for family life, discovers Philippa Stockley

Happy family home: Anahid Jarvis, left, with son Leo. Anahid and husband Simon turned the Maida Vale garden flat where her aunt once lived into a great place to raise their boy

Open-plan to the max: exposed brick, Metro tiles, light woods and polished concrete work surfaces in the bright and airy industrial-urban kitchen/living/dining room

Smart storage: timber cupboards line the wide hall, broken up by glass-fronted ones, right. Copper fittings and Spanish tiles in the chic en suite, far right

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WITH its huge Victorian houses and wide, tree-lined streets, cute shops clustered round the Tube station, numerous

famous residents — The Imitation Game’s Alan Turing was born here; Kate Moss lives here — and posh neighbours Little Venice and St John’s Wood, Maida Vale is a gorgeous part of town. These days, many of the houses that once overflowed with big families and their armies of staff are now carved into flats holding an ever-changing international set of people passing through.

However, Anahid Jarvis, 33, her hus-band, Simon, 35, and their toddler son, Leo, are long-term residents. Anahid’s grandparents came to London from Cyprus after the 1974 coup d’état, and bought the house when it was a set of run-down flats with sitting tenants. They improved it, and Anahid grew up in an upper flat. Her aunt lived in the garden flat which filled the ground floor.

After her aunt moved, the garden flat was let for a decade. Meanwhile, in 2002, Anahid, working in financial PR, met financial markets trader Simon. They

married at Babington House in 2009 and as they looked for somewhere to raise a family, they thought of the flat.

At that time it had a garage on the side, and a central hall with lots of rooms off, carpeted and decorated for tenants. Ana-hid, who has a great eye for design, had recently changed career and begun to study art history. She wanted to make things open-plan, to create more light and space, especially across the back, where a central window looked out to the high-walled garden with its lawn and roses.

The couple sounded out a few archi-tects but none of them struck a chord. Then Anahid’s sister, a painter with a studio in Great Western Studios in Lad-broke Grove, said she’d noticed some architects based there, called Threefold. So the couple went to meet them. “We just clicked, I couldn’t work with people I didn’t get on with,” Anahid says.

The architects started on the designs while Anahid and Simon spent all their spare time trawling reclamation yards and looking for ideas.

In 1979, a modest extension had been put right across the back of the house. The architects opened the thick back

wall of the original house line, leaving exposed bricks, and knocked out inte-rior walls, creating a big, L-shaped sweep right across the back and down one flank of the house. They also put French doors to the garden. This opening up causes dramatic change. Light fills what is now a vast, chic, industrial-urban kitchen-diner-living room. In the kitchen area are cream hand-made tiles, old brass hospital taps, reclaimed pendant lamps and polished concrete work surfaces.

A central island has an old butcher’s block set into a concrete surface, and a Falcon range completes the look. The reclaimed refectory table near the win-dows, again lit by pendants, is set with mismatched old chairs. Where giant load-bearing steels have been put in the ceiling, they have been left visible, mark-ing out where walls once ran.

Anahid also longed for a master bed-room with an en suite, “and a walk-in dressing room like Carrie Bradshaw’s in


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Sex and the City.” So the architects moved the master bedroom to the front, knocking through into the former garage to carve out a very chic en suite with patterned Spanish encaustic tiles on the floor, walls of bevelled Metro tiles, cop-per taps, and the really nice, warm touch of a sliding plank door to the bedroom, which the builder’s joiner made out of floorboards. “I’d seen something like it at Babington House,” Anahid says. And the black-painted walk-in dressing room is as enviable as it should be.

ANAHID and Simon wanted lots of storage, and the archi-tects had the idea of lining the wide hall with bespoke wraparound cupboards

made of planked timber, similar to the pale limed timber used for the floors. The long run of cupboards is broken up with a couple of glass-fronted cupboards, one housing a fitted wine-rack.

Two years after meeting the architects, at Christmas 2012, the couple moved into their gorgeous, light, modern, but also very warm-feeling home — the perfect place to raise Leo, born later that year.

WHO DID WHATArchitect: Jack Hosea of Threefold Architects (threefoldarchitects.com), which was shortlisted for Young Architect of the Year 2014.Builder: Strongcross, through the architect.

GET THAT LOOKBathroom white goods: CP Hart (cphart.co.uk) and Fired Earth (firedearth.com).Copper taps: William Holland.com, which also makes glorious copper baths, and fairfieldbuilders.co.ukLighting: vintage reclaimed lighting from Cornwall-based skinflintdesign.co.uk. Vintage-style lighting from Urban Cottage Industries (urbancottageindustries.com).Tiles: Spanish encaustic bathroom floor tiles, a different pattern in each bathroom, from Mosaic del Sur (mosiacdelsur.com). Another stockist is cement-tiles.comBathroom bevelled Metro wall tiles and kitchen hand-made brick-shaped cream tiles, all from Fired Earth, as before.

Paints: Anahid has a good eye for subtle paint tones, particularly warm greys and pale blues — colours that can easily look cold. Living Room: pale grey chimney wall in Strong White; hall and kitchen/dining walls in All White, and master bedroom in palest blue Borrowed Light. All from farrow-ball.com

Reclamation yards, shops, fairs and auction houses used: Lassco reclamation yards (lassco.co.uk); Retrouvius, for architectural salvage, (retrouvius.com); The Architectural Forum, again for salvage (the architecturalforum.com; The Old Cinema antiques/salvage shop (theoldcinema.co.uk); Alfies Antique Market (alfiesantiques.com); The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair, Battersea, (decorativefair.com); Criterion Auction House (criterionauctioneers.com).

ANAHID’S INTERIOR DESIGN TIPS:“It takes longer than you think. We spent all our weekends scouring reclamation yards and looking online

and in magazines. I don’t like downlighters, so we bought interesting and vintage pendant lamps.” Taps: “We didn’t want the cold look of silvery nickel taps. The kitchen tap is a salvaged old hospital tap from The Architectural Forum, stripped back to the original brass. Elsewhere brass or copper give a much warmer look.” Be imaginative: “For my sliding bathroom door I bought old bathroom doors from Lassco which the joiner made into a traditional plank door. That idea came from a hotel.” Economise: “We used plank boards for floors, to surround the bath in one bathroom, for the hall cupboards, and to make shutters for the French window — it ties the style together.” Know your palette: Anahid used a natural palette of wood, ceramic tiles, polished concrete, and warm-cool colours to make a comfortable, slightly Scandinavian look that also maximises light.

Practical chic: Anahid, Leo, and a muted, minimalist palette

It’s a shoe-in: making the most of every inch of storage

Spacious: the garden flat occupies the entire ground floor


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THESE beautifully bevelled mouthblown crystal flutes from Baccarat’s Mille Nuits collection are the glasses of choice at

The Connaught’s hidden champagne bar in the heart of Mayfair. Order by Friday for pre-Christmas delivery — £145 each.Visit uk.baccarat.com.

NOTHING says comfort quite like cashmere slippers. Find the perfect pair in ecru bordered with cream for £49 in sizes 2½ to 10½ from urbanara.co.uk. Order by tomorrow for guaranteed pre-Christmas delivery.

GIVE the gift that keeps on giving, all year. A weekly delivery of a seasonal bouquet from fashionable McQueens, which supplies and creates floral designs for the Vanity Fair post-Oscars party in LA, costs from about £2,600. Order online at mcqueens.co.uk or visit the new Claridge’s outlet. London service only.

MAKE an espresso an even more pleasurable experience with a sparkling set of striped platinum and white bone china espresso cups and saucers, designed by Jasper Conran for Wedgwood. Single cup, £22.50, saucer, £2.50, from John Lewis. Order online at johnlewis.com and you can click and collect from John Lewis or Waitrose shops, for next-day collection from 2pm.

FOR the stylistas among you, this perfect hammered brass bowl is finished with a gold wash, from designer

Tom Dixon. Large Bash Vessel, 9in high, £295; small, 6½in high, £175. From heals.com.

SEND a Fortnum & Mason satin-lined blue box of marc de champagne truffles and Louis Roederer champagne for £60, or a hamper filled with silver crackers, sugared

almonds, champagne and other sparkling goodies, £250. Order online at fortnumandmason.com by next Monday for premium UK delivery.

FOR him, give a multispot reversible merino lambswool throw, £74.95 from highgroveshop.com — helping The Prince of

Wales’s Charitable Foundation, last orders December 21 — or classic cedarwood shoe trees, £40, at harrysoflondon.com.

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PLACE your order at least a week in advance for an opulent, middle eastern-style spread, complete with waiters to serve, from celebrated Ottolenghi. Price of dinner for two starts at £150, depending on choices.For details, visit ottolenghi.co.uk/catering

Garden planter . . . for the garden planter

A GARDENER would love a container that is as practical as it is beautiful. Whichford Pottery in the Cotswolds has perfected the art of producing garden planters that are resistant to frost while being classically elegant. Hand-crafted terracotta pots start from only £23.50. Visit whichford pottery.com.

■AND FINALLY... who wouldn’t like a team of Santa’s little helpers for the day, to clean, tidy and get a house in order? Fantastic Services provides a professional clean from £78 for a two-bedroom flat or house. Even better, treat yourself this Thursday, officially Christmas Dust Day, the traditional time when panic sets in. A team of green-suited “elves” will pitch up and clean your house, shop, decorate, wrap and deliver your gifts. Book via the GoFantastic app or online at fantasticservices.com/elf

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FOR the friend who’s planning a new year house paint but doesn’t know whether to choose taupe or tangerine, send over the country’s finest colour consultant, Joa Studholme of Farrow & Ball paints, to inspire and instruct for £225 an hour. Details on farrow-ball.com/colour-consultancy.

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Kenyon Yeh, is powder coated and round, with part of the circle folding up to rest against a wall for support.

The Ambrose range includes exclusive designs by leading contemporary brands — for example, the Hot Mesh colourful wire mesh chairs by Blu Dot; Alessi’s Piana folding chairs in zingy colours, and the Knap sofa bed by Per Weiss. With extra flexibilty offered by the adjustable back, it’s ideal for lounging or sleeping, and is a mini playscape for children.

AGOOD range of colourful, chic, but reasonably priced accessories that fold up or roll away is also available from

Heal’s. Its new rugs are style items, in bold geometric prints, from as little as £70. The Twitter floor or table lamps are elegant and don’t require wall or ceiling fixings. Add a pop of colour for £10 with a framed edition of the vintage Irish linen tea towels.

This furniture for Londoners also includes some terrific pieces for Christmas guests that can be packed flat and stored away, ready to do it all again next year.

Heal’s stores: Tottenham Court Road, W1 and King’s Road, SW3 (heals.co.uk)

LONDONERS who rent need furniture that fits their lifestyle and can move when they do. Private landlords often impose

strict limits on what tenants can do to personalise their homes, routinely banning drilling holes in walls, repainting rooms, altering flooring or generally doing anything that affects the fabric of the place — even when the tenant’s plan would be an obvious improvement.

Long-term renters want as much quality around them as home owners but in their case, furniture needs to be flexible, adaptable, stylish without requiring wall fixings and capable of being folded up and moved.

Of course, it’s not only renters who face flexibility issues, with space at a premium in London in old and new builds. Furniture maker and retailer Heal’s is on the case. “It seemed timely to address these space and access issues with furniture that works with the reality of urban living,” says the company’s creative director, Carmel Allen. The latest range of Heal’s furniture and accessories — called Ambrose, after Ambrose Heal, grandson of the store’s founder and a leading light in mid-20th century design — focuses on providing innovative solutions to such

dilemmas. The designs are adaptable, multifunctional, easy to assemble, good-looking, well made, durable and very reasonably priced. They can be folded up and moved to the next location, but make the best use of every available inch. “Our designers have thought through all the access issues so our pieces can be assembled and dismantled to cope with narrow staircases and difficult entrances when you move house,” adds Allen.

Design consultant for the range is eminent product designer Sir Kenneth Grange, and the project has been overseen by brand designer David Steiner. Sir Kenneth designed the Leaning Wall shelving system that requires no wall fixing. Lightweight oak shelves hang off fabric or steel straps in a back panel that leans against the wall. By adding on additional elements the Leaning Wall can accommodate a cabinet, a laptop desk and a bench seat. All can be packed away flat.

In a similar vein is Matthew Elton’s A-Frame system which slots together to make shelves, desk, coffee table and clothes storage, without the need to turn a screw, hammer a nail or get out the glue, while the clever YEH wall table, a small, two-legged creation by Taiwanese designer

It’s not only renters who face furniture flexibility issues, with space at a premium in London in old and new builds

From £795: the Cell shelving unit, left, can be opened and closed to extend or reduce length

Super-adaptable space saver: the Leaning Wall shelving system, right, designed by Sir Kenneth Grange for Heal’s recently launched Ambrose collection

Sale prices from £97: the Twitter floor lamp, right, also available as a table lamp, from £60

£225: Brunel wall-leaning mirror with concealed hanging rail, by Rob Scarlett


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Left: Ball floor lamp in copper, now £175, down from £250

Below: Blu Dot Hot Mesh bar stool, from £175

Left: Blu Dot Hot Mesh chairs, from £125

Take it with you: filament bulbs from £22, glass pendants, £125, enamel shades, £42

Slim: desk £495, stool from £30, sideboard, £695 — Brunel range by Rob Scarlett

Above: A-Frame bench, £495, dining table, £795 and shelving, also £795

No glue or screws required: A-Frame shelving, left, with a selection of cushions and throws. See heals.co.uk

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