我的现代住宅：花园设计师菲比·达奇在她位于伦敦北部的翻新家庭住宅里，讲述城市与乡村生活。

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Landscape designer Phoebe D’Arcy and her husband, Phil Stuart, founder of immersive game studio Preloaded, moved from a one-bedroom flat in Stoke Newington to this Victorian family home in Harringay when they found out they were expecting their first child. Eight years on and three children later, how has their renovation supported the demands of modern family life? And with the family spending more time at their country home on the Suffolk coast, how does city versus country life weigh up? We visited Phoebe to find out.

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Phoebe: “When we arrived here it was stacked full of halogen lights, and there was a lime green and purple colour scheme – very different to what we like!

“Coming from our last place, a one-bedroom flat in Stoke Newington, it was the most massive house we could imagine, though. We found we had almost nothing to fill the house with, except a brand-new baby that screamed all the time and we had no idea how to look after.

“We only occupied a few rooms at the beginning. Eight years later we have three children and it doesnt feel quite so massive.

“Our kids are ages seven, five and seven months, so its very much a family house. We had to make the space work a bit harder for us than it was. But I didnt want to blast it apart and make it huge, because it didnt feel right. We wanted to maintain some integrity and the nice bits of the Victorian house, like the fireplaces, whilst updating it to make it more functional.

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