HOME TRUTHS
THE PROPERTY Victorian maisonette
LOCATION Southeast London
ROOMS Sitting room, kitchen-diner, two bedrooms, bathroom and garden studio
PURCHASED 2012 PREVIOUS PROPERTY 'Our first home together was a rented flat in Fulham,' says Tom.
For Tom Kennedy and Jamie Watkins the lines between home and work are joyfully blurred by a riot of pattern, print, exotic birds, art, vintage furniture and personal collections as they run their interiors brand Divine Savages from southeast London Victorian maisonette they bought in 2012.
An upside-down home, with the bedrooms and bathrooms on the lower ground floor and the kitchen and living room upstairs, a wave of cool, kitsch and glamour washes over you the moment you enter. With a hall lined with an eclectic gallery wall of pop art, natural history, cartoons and nudes, the eye is immediately drawn to a fabulous floral stair carpet and an alluring neon-lit Debbie Harry.
Here, a playful - almost risqué - tone is set for the rest of the interior.
This story is from the July 2022 edition of 25 Beautiful Homes.
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