Sometimes the right house picks the wrong moment. Certainly, this elegant London townhouse couldn’t have made its appearance at a less opportune time. The paint had barely dried on the huge renovation Yvonne Ayoub and her late-husband Farouk had just completed, yet they decided to start all over again.
‘I was just unpacking the last of our belongings when Farouk told me he’d spotted a “better” house just five minutes’ away,’ says Yvonne.
The newcomer was a Grade-II listed, fivestorey, late-Georgian home: so far, so similar, but that short
