Three rooms were knocked into one to create the spacious living room. at one end Martina designed the coffee table and small side table herself and had them made while living in Germany, they sit alongside a sofa from Go Modern Furniture and artemide floor lamp from Germany. at the other end, two reproduction Barcelona chairs and a foot stool create a style statement, with a sofa bed tucked under the stairs for guests to stay
After spending more than a decade moving from their native Sweden to the UK to Germany and then back to the UK again, Martina and Peter Landhed were looking for the perfect spot to put down roots and raise their two young daughters. The house they found was in a great location, a short walk to the town centre and close to good schools but it was in a pretty bad way because it hadn’t been updated for years. ‘The house was a good size and within our budget, so we decided to take it on as a long-term project,’ remembers Martina. ‘Our theory was that you can change a house but you can’t change its location.’