| FAMILY HOME |
EMMA AND SIMON JAMIESON HAVE PROVED YOU CAN RE-PURPOSE ROOMS TO MAKE A PERIOD HOME MORE FAMILY-FRIENDLY, WHILE REINSTATING CHARACTER FEATURES
Living room
‘We brought our John Sankey sofa with us, but I wanted a symmetrical look here so found another one on eBay. It had an ink stain, so we had them both reupholstered in green velvet, which set the tone for the room.’
BUY THE KEY PIECES
Diana sofa, from £3,100, Graham & Green, is similar. Hurricane lanterns, from £49, Ella James
HOME NOTES
Emma Jamieson, a full-time mum, lives here with her husband Simon, MD of a Martech company, and their three children, Patrick, 12, William, eight, and Joseph, seven.
A five-bedroom late-Victorian detached house in Ormskirk, Lancashire.
GAS STOVE Always visit a showroom so you can pick the most realistic-looking flame
THE LAYOUT
A central L-shaped hallway leads to a living room on the right and family room on the left. Pocket doors give access to the kitchen-diner, which has French doors to the rear garden, while the utility is accessed from both the dining area and hallway. Upstairs there are four bedrooms, with an en suite and dressing room off the principal suite, plus a family bathroom.
UTILITY ROOM
WC
FAMILY ROOM
KITCHEN-DINER
LIVING ROOM
EN SUITE
DRESSING ROOM
MAIN BEDROOM
BEDROOM
BE DROOM ith three young sons, Emma and Simon Jamieson wanted their Victorian home in Lancashire to flow better for family life while still ensuring the period character shone through.
WHY DID YOU BUY THE PROPERTY?
‘We’d just finished renovating our 1930s semi when Si spotted this house on RightMove on a road we’d always loved. Everything about it – the symmetry, the long driveway, the period feel, the big garden – was tick, tick, tick. Our parents tried to deter us, calling it a money pit, but we’d already fallen for it.’
WHAT WORK HAVE YOU DONE?
‘We tried to convince ourselves the work was mostly cosmetic but realistically we knew we had a lot more to do than removing the red carpet from the hall, stairs and bathroom. In January 2018 we moved in and made a rough plan of works, including central heating, windows, roof repairs and electrics. We had a full renovation on our hands and, in the end, every room was taken back to brick. A fifth bedroom and family bathroom became an en suite and dressing room for our bedroom, and we turned an en suite off the younger boys’ bedroom into the main family bathroom. At the end of 2019 the old kitchen was turned into a utility room and the large room next door - dubbed
