{"id":448468,"date":"2026-02-27T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:18:11","slug":"a-victorian-house-in-east-london-with-remarkably-tactile-warm-interiors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/448468\/","title":{"rendered":"A Victorian house in east London with remarkably tactile, warm interiors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The practice of interior design is something of a problem-solving job \u2013 taking a jumbled up floor plan, looking past questionable inherited decorating decisions, stripping it all back and conjuring up a sensible, beautiful house from what was previously chaos. This is precisely what former lawyer turned interior designer Laura Logan has done in her Victorian house in Leytonstone, which she shares with her husband and two young children.<\/p>\n

The family moved in in 2019, having lived nearby for a number of years. \u2018We\u2019d previously renovated a smaller house in the local area, which we were really happy with,\u2019 Laura explains. \u2018However, I used to walk past this one on a regular basis and always noticed its handsome Victorian frontage. The more often I passed it, the more I noticed it, much in the same way kids notice things; slowly at first, then in a more interested way and eventually I fell in love with it.\u2019 Luckily for her, it came on the market and she was able to buy the object of her desire.<\/p>\n

Anyone stepping inside now will find a bright, open, incredibly serene house, with large, light-filled spaces and an aesthetic that is modern minimalism at its best; limewash paint<\/a>, large vases with structural branches placed in them, swathes of neutral fabrics and light oak used for the beams inside and framed fa\u00e7ade outside. This is not, however, how they found it. \u2018The kitchen was incredibly small and cramped,\u2019 details Laura, and \u2018it had doors and windows that seemed to have been positioned by Rene Magritte. The d\u00e9cor was eccentric to a fault, including gold leaf ceilings and Michaelangelo-style murals in the bedrooms.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The exterior of the house is framed in oak, which continues inside. All the joinery was done by Tim Gaudin and Laura worked with EJ Studio on the extension.<\/p>\n

Owen Gale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The practice of interior design is something of a problem-solving job \u2013 taking a jumbled up floor plan,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,6642,7884,13907,39942,20782,59,13905,71815,35815,56,54,55,35814],"class_list":["post-448468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-city","tag-city-houses","tag-city-houses-with-contemporary-interiors","tag-contemporary-city","tag-designers-houses","tag-gb","tag-london-houses","tag-old-houses-with-contemporary-interiors","tag-quiet-interiors","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-victorian-houses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448468","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=448468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}