{"id":352918,"date":"2026-01-05T06:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352918\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:41:11","slug":"big-little-changes-in-a-south-london-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352918\/","title":{"rendered":"Big little changes in a south London flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">His apartment in Brockley, south London, occupies a section of an 1870s house now carved into five flats. When Guthrie first saw it, the place was full of the perfunctory fixes described on social media as \u201clandlord specials\u201d. Odd design decisions spoke of carelessness, partitions made the flat feel cramped. In the bathroom, the home\u2019s impressively high 3.2m ceiling had been lowered, leaving a\u00a0useless void above. Walls were drowned in what Guthrie calls \u201cyucky magnolia\u201d and woodchip-textured wallpaper. \u201cIt was really neglected, but it just had something about it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His apartment in Brockley, south London, occupies a section of an 1870s house now carved into five flats.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,14773,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-352918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-interior-design","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}