A Play with Proportions

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Before she co-founded Thornback & Peel – renowned for its whimsical, screenprinted textiles and homewares – Delia was a theatre designer. Her training and eye for details proved useful when she reconfigured this ground floor garden flat in an Edwardian mansion block abutting Hampstead Heath, which she shares with her husband and their two small children. Although the couple have entirely reconfigured the main space – the kitchen was created from what was a disproportionately vast entrance hall – it looks as if it has always been this way.