From cramped coach house to family home – how clever design transformed this tiny space

Bold interior choices allowed these first-time buyers to utilise every square inch of this 19th-century building to create something special Eleanor and Dominic Charles’s wishlist was typical of most city dwellers looking to get a foot on the property ladder: a bit of outdoor space, ideally a house rather than a flat, and somewhere with character. But they ended up being bolder than most first-timers, taking a punt on a run-down, pint-sized 19th-century coach house in Camberwell, south London...

By Charlotte Luxford