25 Beautiful Homes

106 | 25bh OCTOBER 2017bLANK CANVASKatharine Le Hardy and Guy Phillips transformed a datedhouse into a modern home filled with favourite artworkFeAtuRe Alix BATEmAn | PhotogRAPhy RAChAEl SmiTh``````the PRoPeRty1930s terraced houseLocAtioN South londonRooms hall, drawing room,sitting room, kitchen-diner,cloakroom, four bedrooms (oneen suite), bathroomPuRchAsed 2012PRevious PRoPeRty‘We lived in a flat just a few streetsaway,’ says Katharine.home truthsiNsPiRiNg``````In a small flat and planning afamily, Katharine Le Hardy,a contemporary landscapeartist, and Guy Phillips, afinancier, began to look intheir local south Londonneighbourhood for a home in 2012. Theywere concerned that if they didn’t upsizesoon, they’d be priced out of the area.A 1930s house with generous proportionsand a good-sized garden caught their eye. To``````Katharine’s mind, the home was a blankcanvas and she could see it had the potentialto extend. ‘We were going to undertake akitchen extension first, but, rather than haveall the upheaval twice, we decided to do theloft at the same time,’ she says.With the arrival of their first child Theo,now two, and baby Alice on the way, thework went ahead and involved extendingthe kitchen, installing a master bedroom anden suite in the loft, and knocking through a