Cozy Victorian house with garden in London

A family with two children bought an old Victorian mansion with a garden and created their own green oasis in it among the bustling metropolis

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel

The owners of this house, a family with two young children, liked the small garden of this Victorian house in north London. The lush greenery was planted by the previous owner — a great lover of nature and gardening from New Zealand. With his light hand, ferns, acacias, banana trees and bamboo settled here.

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel

The mansion itself required repairs, and the interior needed improvement, but its advantages — old wooden frames and doors, stucco on the ceiling, a fireplace and a spacious kitchen — clearly outweighed all the disadvantages, and to the great joy of the children who had already fallen in love with the wild thickets in the garden, the house with a garden found new owners.

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel

After renovation, inside the house there is a living room with a fireplace, an office, three bedrooms and two bathrooms. One of them is a spacious room with a window, where it was found to put a free—standing mint-colored bath, a chest of drawers for storing bath accessories and even a floor mirror. In addition, the house has a large terrace where the whole family can gather in summer.

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel

A lot of vintage and antique furniture is used in the setting, which corresponds to the spirit of this place and the architecture of the house. Since the owners of the house work in the music industry, there are many different musical instruments (both modern and antique) and audio equipment in the interior, as well as a large number of unusual decorative items. For example, antique travel chests or dried pangolins under glass in the living room.

Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel

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Photo:: Andreas von Einsiedel

The kitchen was not accidentally liked by the owners — it is spacious and bright. Along the semicircular wall there is a cream-colored set and a wooden shelf on which the owners exhibited their collection of decorative plates. The apron was lined with classic white tiles-“boar”, which can be found in old houses. The interior was complemented by an old wooden round table with bent legs, household appliances and stainless steel dishes. It turned out to be warm and cozy, as, indeed, everything in this house.