Homes: how to transform a flat on a tiny budget

From something out of a horror movie to a dream home: designer Abigail Edwards looks back on four years of hard graft

Once inside the north London home of stylist and designer Abigail Edwards, the hair-raising encounter with a number 57 bus gunning past her front door is quickly forgotten. With its rugged brick walls, tactile reclaimed wood and calming prints, her flat is a balm for the soul, belying its resolutely urban location.

“I see so much new stuff through my work that I crave things that aren’t too finished or designed,” Edwards says. “I like everything to have a bit of a patina to it.”

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from Network Front | The Guardian http://bit.ly/1J1Y0eP