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London interior designer Lonika Chande\u2019s Queen\u2019s Park family home had been stripped of its history by the time she and her husband, Theo Hall, came along. Located in an enclave of Victorian affordable housing not all of which survived the Blitz, the 1876 brick structure was built for a railway worker. Many occupants later, it had an interior that flowed well but felt 21st century sanitized. A fan of layering rooms with art, books, and patterns, Lonika stepped in to celebrate it as the urban rarity it is: a historic cottage in the thick of things, just north of Notting Hill.<\/p>\n

A while back, we featured Lonika\u2019s Apartment Remodel for a Demanding Client (Her Mother). Join us for a look around her own quarters, which she and Theo, a lawyer, now share with their young son and baby daughter, and a lot of well-chosen antiques.<\/p>\n

Photography by Milo Brown, courtesy of Lonika Chande.<\/p>\n


Above: Lonika introduced wainscoting to the sitting room off the entry, and the formerly boarded-up fireplace now has a mantel of her own design. Throughout, she offset colorful textiles with a warm, neutral paint palette. The two-seater sofa is upholstered in Dans la For\u00eat\u2019 from D\u00e9cors Barbares. The walls and ceiling are painted Stone IV, and the woodwork and trim is Stone V, both from Paint & Paper Library .
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Above: \u201cWe wanted to recapture some of the cottage\u2019s original character, but we didn\u2019t want it to feel twee,\u201d Lonika told UK
\nHouse & Garden<\/em>. She found much of the art and furniture by being a regular at the Portobello Road, Kempton, and Sunbury antiques markets. The foxed mantel mirror came out of a French bistro. The tiger is an old silk embroidery that she framed.,

Above: The nook under the stair has a window seat with storage. The African carvings are from Lonika\u2019s grandparents\u2019 house in Tanzania.
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Above: A farmhouse table extends across the kitchen, which the previous owners enlarged and opened to the back garden.
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Above: The kitchen cabinets are deVol\u2019s Real Shaker design with a Shaws sink and Perrin & Rowe Aged Brass Ionian Tap, also from deVol. The blue is a bespoke deVol color, and the zellige tile is from Habibi Interiors. The counter is Carrara marble. The antique hook-lined shelf over the sink was made for hanging game.
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Above: Lonika\u2019s mother, artist Lucy Dickens (great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens), painted the tropical fruit tableau in the center of the dining area, and the watercolor of quinces is by Lucy\u2019s mother.,

Above: The three bedrooms are cottage size and now bright with color and pattern. The canopy is a mix of washed yellow linen and a block-print from Jaipur.
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Above: Shades of turmeric are one of Lonika\u2019s specialities\u2014see her yellow kitchen here. The walls are Slate II from Paint & Paper Library.
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Above: The lone bathroom is newly lined with beadboard paneling and accessorized with a vintage spool table and shelves. Contemplating adding your own paneling? See Remodelista 101: The Ultimate Guide to Shiplap, Beadboard, and V-Groove Paneling.
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Above: The blue on the walls, ceiling, and radiator is Gravel Pit from Dulux, and the tub\u2014from Aston Matthews\u2014is painted a \u201cneutral red\u201d called Callaghan from Little Greene. The muslin window blind is in Robert Kime\u2019s Indian-inspired Field Poppy print.,

Above: The baby\u2019s room until recently was Lonika\u2019s office, now relocated off-site nearby. It\u2019s papered in Alice in Wonderland, an archived C.F.A. Voysey Arts and Crafts design from Trustworth Studios of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The glossy trim is Picture Gallery Red by Farrow & Ball.
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Above: Nurseries are so often new and modern, but Lonika is raising her children with patina. See another bedroom with Voysey wallpaper here.
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Above: Lonika in another of her layered projects\u2014see Lonika Chande. <\/p>\n

More antiques-filled interiors that we love:<\/p>\n