HOME PROFILE

WHO LIVES HERE Rachel Forshaw, a social worker, part-time interior design student and Instagram blogger; her husband Mark Forshaw, a children’s home manager and trainee psychotherapist, and their cat, Claude

THE PROPERTY

A three-bedroom Victorian terrace in south London PRICE £600,000

MONEY SPENT £3,500

WHAT IT’S WORTH NOW £615,000

LIVING ROOM

Walls are painted in Farrow & Ball’s Light Gray, a warm neutral that changes in different lights, and the scheme has been lifted with different textures and colours found in an interesting range of cushion covers. The concrete coffee table came from West Elm, and the velvet Malvern corner sofa and pale pink armchair were from Swoon. Frida Kahlo and Magritte feature in Rachel’s eclectic art collection, which includes exhibition posters

KITCHEN

(Left and right) Clever lighting has been created from cheap wooden B&Q brackets and hanging wire bulbs from Amazon, which are complemented by wooden kitchen accessories like bread boards. For similar units, try the J-Pull Kitchen from Wren Kitchens. Artesano tiles in Rose Mallow, from Tons of Tiles, lend a warm tone to the walls painted in Crack in the Pavement emulsion from Dowsing & Reynolds

DINING ROOM

With entertaining important to Rachel and Mark, the

Callia extendable dining table from John Lewis & Partners takes centre stage. It is teamed with retro vintage chairs found on Ebay and a traditional Persian rug that was a present from Rachel’s mother. The Alana rectangular mirror in Brushed Brass is from Made