‘We turned a disused MOT garage in East Dulwich into a family home ‘

The plan wasn’t to move to the Zone 3 borders of leafy Honor Oak and East Dulwich, but mid-way through redeveloping the site of an MOT garage tucked behind a row of Victorian houses, Covid hit. “There was such a paradigm shift, wasn’t there?” muses Leo, an interior designer, adding how: “Whitechapel was great, but it was pretty full on.”