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elonging to 32-year-old yoga teacher Molly Salamon and husband Dylan, 34, an entrepreneur and events organiser, this


threestorey house in Southfi elds, south London was taken apart and rebuilt, leaving only the facade and fi rst fl oor intact.


As avid travellers, Molly and Dylan wanted to bring the warmth and ambience of Ibiza to south London, creating a tranuil and organic home to help them think of sunny climes even on the greyest London morning. We wanted it to feel like we were on holiday every day, says olly. It was a huge undertaking, especially as Molly


was pregnant with their son Otto, born just four weeks before the family moved into their totally transformed home in une . We lived at my mother-in-law’s in Surrey during the build,” says olly. here is no way we could have lived here while the work was being done. he whole thing took  months. t was uite a long time. Molly and Dylan bought their house for just over m in une . When they met, ylan owned an apartment in Westminster. ut after the couple acuired their fi rst dog  a miniature dachshund  they moved to Clapham to be closer to green spaces.


uring the Covid pandemic in  olly says they wanted to get out of London altogether and started looking at farms in Devon and Kent: t was ridiculous, we would spend our weeks looking at different properties. t would take us four hours to drive down to evon. hen they decided that rather than upping sticks, they would stay in London and fi nd a familysied house to renovate  with olly in charge of the design. She’s the more creative and arty” half of the duo; before becoming a yoga teacher she worked in the jewellery business as a stone buyer. ylan’s business interests include he Curling Club, an Alpline themed curling pop-up serving food and cocktails on London’s South ank. We put an offer down on a house in


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Brixton, but fortunately it was the fate of the universe, the sellers pulled out on the day of the exchange, olly smiles. y this point, we must have been to look at about 50 houses and put down fi ve offers. We came to look at three properties around Southfi elds. his one had been on the market for a bit longer, it was defi nitely a bit of a renovation ob. As soon as she and ylan walked in, it felt like this is the one. t was enough of a proect, and ust right for us. t was the little things  the top bedroom windows look over everyone’s gardens, our house is slightly wider than the other houses on the grid, and the garden is a good sie. Within  minutes we’d cancelled all other offers, and went for this one. t all felt serendipitous.


he summer of , with the couple having married in June of that year, they holidayed on the Balearic island of Ibiza, known for its cool, laidback and airy interior design. With the house purchase secured, we really started to think about how bian style might infl uence our own design, says olly. We really wanted to get in the arches and the curves, and the textures  the marble vanity unit in the master bedroom, and the micro cement in the shower, it makes it feel like a cave  that inspired us on bia.  love that we’ve achieved that, it makes the house feel really tranuil. From the start Molly and Dylan intended to carry out a full renovation. hey found their architect, Londonbased practice atch + Mason, by recommendations following a school playground chat. y sister is an interior designer and her husband is an architect  he was too busy to do our house, says olly.  was talking to her about the diffi culties of fi nding the right architect for our project, then a week later, she was in the playground and got chatting to someone who had just had their house renovated by atch  ason. We knew straight away that they understood what we wanted


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aking lots of A sheets of paper and around 40 pots of Little reene paint to fi gure out the colour theme for the overall house.  really loved experimenting with ideas and combinations, and I’d recommend this as a great way to work out what colours will work in a space.


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