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Jason Barron loves his orange Ferrari Dino so much that when he and his partner rebuilt within their Victorian house in Putney, they created a glass wall between the garage and the house so he can watch at any time of day or night.
When you walk through the front door, the first thing you see is the Ferrari, sitting proudly on the right of the hallway Jason, 36, a City banker, has always had a passion for cars.
Satu Macdonald, his partner said he will follow events and four cars - including a BMW M3, yellow Lancia Delta Integrale and a green Porsche GT3RS, he keeps garaged nearby When we live in our old house - a loft apartment, also in Putney, we read an article about a house that had a glass garage and we've always had this dream in our starting heads, we wanted to put in a full glass box, but it was ridiculously expensive and we would have also lost wall to put things on.
They bought the house in 2002, mainly because it had an outdoor area for their bastard to enjoy, but they stayed in their loft apartment for two years, so they asked a development permit and had extensive home and He rebuilt now looks very different from one of the other houses in this relatively quiet street off Upper Richmond road Street narrow road has a brick herringbone area pavie and most properties are Victorian, with bricks or walls painted white this is the only house with a contemporary facade front and rear.
It was quite a chore is planning what we wanted to do, but finally we managed to change the face of the house and cover half of it in an oak sheath, extending roof terrace and extension of the 1970 back and rebuild the inside, it was a site for a while, says Satu the result is a light and spacious house with very clean lines - no handles on cabinets or closets throughout the house the kitchen square bright white cupboards and cabinets with dark wood floor - two by Pedini, with white Corian work surfaces and three wine cooling cabinets under the breakfast bar.
All the walls of the house are white on white We decided because we have a lot of different pieces of furniture - mostly from the 50, 60 and 70, which provide color, says Satu.
When Jason bought the Ferrari was red, but he had painted the original orange, as they bought their leather sofa L-shaped at the same time Purves Purves, they did exactly the same color in the living area there lime green carpet her - and outside rattan recliners are green fresh lime kitchen chairs, they had shipped from New York, are cream and orange; Plastic chairs are orange and even their bricks wooden toys are orange.
Orange has become a bit of a theme, says Satu, who was a fashion designer before children are born.
When they bought the house, they hadn t planned a family, but when they moved in, in June 2004 their first daughter, Ava, was eight months and three years later, Mae was born Girls Porsche also to play with - a pedal car of the 1950s that was made in America.
Other important changes the couple have in particular taken the bay window at the front, move the stairs so they can have a large living area open plan, and the creation of a theater basement where there was a second living room shabby and dark upstairs, they moved the walls and made three, instead of four bedrooms - turn one of the smaller rooms in an old dressing room the shower room en- suite has been extended with a wide wet area it its elegant family bathroom and in each room - downstairs and upstairs - they have wardrobes and cupboards, so it's storage space.
Jason is basically a frustrated architect and although we used an architect, John Dyer Grimes, Jason has designed much of the woodwork, including unusual style box shelves in our room and office curve in the basement he was very involved throughout the design of the house and has even created a cubbyhole at the bottom of the stairs to the dog's toys, she said.
Instead of the stairs in original staircase leading to the roof terrace, there is now a proper staircase and the terrace has a new terrace with wire railings, planters around zebra reeds, outdoor shower and a kitchen area with sink and refrigerator.
The couple also repeated all the sash windows, renewed the glass in the rearward extension, to a new wood flooring in the basement, terrazzo stone on the stairs of the ground floor and solid wood that have not balusters not just narrow panels in the wall that are lit at night.
They renovated the garden, with an Italian friend design a glance with apple and pear espalier surrounded by low hedges of box around the garden's edge, and instead of a shed there a white storage units online, like the cabinets in the living room we wanted to put in a shed that the garden is like a room outside, so we tried to treat it the same way, says Satu.
We love living in Putney Ava just been in Putney High School, the river and park are close and we have a lot of friends here, so we're moving into a house closer to school It also has two garages double parking and off balance sheet in the street for five cars and yes, we will do a makeover before moving on.
Contact The house in Parkfields, SW15 has three bedrooms, a 36ft-wide rear garden, 26ft roof terrace, large kitchen, open-plan living room and a basement cinema room, air conditioning in the master bedroom and underfloor heating throughout is the market with Savills 020 8780 9900, for 2 25 million.
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