The London house of artists James Russell and Hannah Plumb just recently captured our eye– however by the time we overtook them, they had actually chosen, as they put it, “it was farm time” and offered their mid-19th century home by means of Inigo (The couple have actually considering that moved to rural Shropshire with their young child, Walter.) Thankfully, they were still eager to share the story of their Stockwell house– a tale of sluggish discovery and happenstance. Let’s have a look around.
Photography by Mark Fox for Inigo
The couple– who are work along with life partners– purchased your house on Stockwell Green in 2007 from a well-known performance pianist who wasn’t shy of strong tones. (The front space, where he practiced at his child grand, was painted cerise pink.) At the time, Hannah and James had actually practically handled to scrape together the deposit for your house. Extremely little was left over to resolve the long list of required repair work.
Whilst their studio in close-by Camberwell ended up being developed, their house stayed mostly the same save for a couple of essential structural modifications. The flooring in the living-room had an unhealthy droop (something to do with that piano, maybe), so the boards were raised and their supporting brick piers rebuilt. Outdoors, the render was quickly restored and the coping stones changed. “We understood less ourselves about old structures at that time,” James shows. “Although we constantly understood that a much deeper remodelling required to be done.”