Interior design ideas: with the old-photos

"I don't live in the past," says Guy Hills, which opens the door to his Victorian house in North London boasting four plus, pointy slippers and Brylcreem. Once inside, it becomes clear that your statement is at odds with your House, too: it has almost entirely decorated with vintage finds and reclaimed, revived and reinvented by Maria Speake, designer and co-founder of Retrouvius, a company dedicated to save and reuse the old.

The four-storey house in Primrose Hill, one of the most creative neighborhoods of London (Nicholas Hytner and Helen Fielding live on the same street and every second home, apparently, bears a blue plaque). Regent's Canal flows through the Garden: "we can sometimes paddling to the London Zoo with the kids, or the Camden Lock," says Hills. Photo: Rachael Smith
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