How the UK’s top interior designers have decorated their own homes – Telegraph.co.uk

We completely fell in love with it straight away, says Beata Heuman (above) of the Victorian house she has lived in for the past four years with her husband, John, and their two young daughters, Gurli and Alma. So many houses like this get picked apart and become open plan, but this was quite well designed to begin with and unspoilt.

Swedish-born Heuman started her design career working with the legendary decorator Nicky Haslam, and evidence of that training can be seen here, in the humour of her interiors, and her love of design history. Its so important to be informed by the past, she says.

She has created an interior that is joyful and unexpected, with echoes of her Swedish childhood. An example of her wit can be found on the walls of the dining room (below left), covered in a custom wallpaper by Tibor. I love the fact that it looks as though someone has just drawn on to the wall, she says.

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