cheat sheet

Who lives here: Photographer Derek Swalwell; partner Georgia Young (pictured), a food stylist; their daughter Mia, 9; and Lilie the cat.

Style of home: A compact 1950s clinker-brick house, painted stark white and renovated with bold accents and strong lines, in a modernist garden setting. After seven months of design and planning, the build took around six months. The renovation and extension $$$$ cost around $380k.