Heart Home magazine Issue 12 August 2014 | Page 20

“When moving into a
historic building it’s
best to think of yourself
as a temporary curator
rather than the owner”

Nick’s approach to refurbishing the amazing space
in which he lives by using entirely recycled items
and materials is not only creative and budget
conscious, substituting imagination for a blank
chequebook, but as a happy by-product it is also
incredibly eco-friendly and impossible to imitate,
making it closer to a giant work of art than an
interior.
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“This will always be a work in progress,” muses
Nick. “But I regard my role here more as that of
a privileged curator than a resident and I think
refitting and furnishing the property with old
found objects was exactly the right choice. What
I want most for this place is longevity, and you
realise when your working with and incorporating
items from a previous era that objects, no matter
how small or modest their function, were actually
crafted and made to last.”