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December 2024

The last 12 months have been full of wonderful projects, and I’ve chosen this beautiful house to round off the year in style.

I have lived near this lovely early Victorian house for about 18 years. It is on quite a busy road and I’ve admired it from the top deck of a London bus ever since I moved to the area. I always wondered who might live in such beautiful house and what it would be like inside. A few months ago I was unexpectedly contacted by some friends of the owners, who wanted me to make a model of the house as a surprise gift. After many happy years the owners were reluctantly selling and their friends thought that a model would be the perfect leaving gift.

Making this house portrait was a real treat for me. I particularly enjoyed surveying the property and discovering the complex and subtle geometry behind the arched reveals over the windows and front door, not as you might imagine semi-circular at all, but rather an ovaloid shape. The brickwork and proportions of the house are perfect and when anybody says ‘dream home’ this is the sort of house I imagine. If I ever build my own home full-sized, which is something I’ve always wanted to do, I will be using the design and proportions of this house as my starting point!