‘The amazing brick feature wall was what sold this house to us,’ recalls Emma Rogers, a part-time teacher and macramé artist based in Bristol. ‘The large windows cast a lovely light on the bricks and although we’d seen numerous places, this room was a game-changer.’ But Emma and her husband, Mark, a glazier, had spent all their money buying the place, so renovations had to wait. ‘We sat on a lilo for six months before we could afford sofas and our table was a piece of MDF on an old tyre,’ recalls Emma. ‘But as the children, Annabelle, now nine, and Alana, six, came along, we began to think about improving the room.’ But it needed to work hard as a lounge, play room, work space and dining area.
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