What I love most about my house now are the clean white walls. But most of the original details, like the fireplaces and cornicing, were all intact. Ian is an architect and he was instrumental in all the design decisions in the house My main decorating task was to undo all their DIY I returned to a blank canvas. I love lots of things about my house, but I think it's the amount of space and the big garden that really make it for me.
A Russian family owned it before us, and they had it decorated in the most garish colours, things like mustard yellow, airforce blue and khaki green and the garden was full of beetroot and hundreds of old vodka bottles. When we moved here originally, I had wanted to have my studio in the loft, but as yet we've never had enough money to do the conversion.It took quite a while to find the house, but as soon as I walked in I knew it was the right place. We have four bedrooms and there's enough space for me to have my office on the ground floor, which means that I can occasionally hold sample sales of my cashmere jerseys, wraps, and hats in the front room. It has lots of parks, and green spaces and you can walk to most places so it's ideal for my three year old daughter, Anna Rose.Also, our house is practically a mansion in London terms.
My husband Ian and I started living in Camberwell, but we'd come across drug addicts at the bus stop outside our house - and there wasn't even a hint of a garden. It wasn't the sort of place we wanted to bring up a child, and so we started looking for somewhere else and eventually we hit on Dulwich For me Dulwich is perfect. But I loved living there because of the feeling of space you have in Scotland.When I moved to London to attend the Royal College of Art and then to set up my knitwear business, I wanted somewhere that had the same kind of feeling of space. Knitwear designer Jo Gordon lives in Dulwich with her husband and daughter. I trained as an artist at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and lived in a rather grotty student flat that cost just £12 a week.