Taubenhaus

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This 1930s house was bought two years ago and has been gutted and redecorated from top to bottom. A decisive and pragmatic decorator, Niloufar announced from the start of the project her intention to use 'plenty of pink'. Her husband objected. 'So, as we always do when an argument threatens, we played a game of Backgammon to decide who won.’ One glance - at cushions, furniture and upholstery in varying shades of pink - confirms who prevailed. The entire project has been a budgetary balancing act, as she says: 'I am happy to snap up a swivelling office chair online so that I can favourite and expensive horsehair upholstery fabric.'