ARCHITECTURE
Lorna and Themis Agorastos were on their honeymoon in Sardinia in 2012 when they spotted a house for sale on the ESPC website. They’d been thinking for some time about relocating from Leeds to be closer to Lorna’s family in Edinburgh, and had been keeping an eye out for suitable properties. Little did they know then that this house in the seaside suburb of Portobello would shape the next decade of their lives.
“We’d been looking for a family home that we could take on as a long-term project – something we could put our stamp on,” says Lorna, director of Edinburgh-based Agora Architecture and Design. “We could see that this property would be a challenge, but we went and took a look at it when we got back from our honeymoon. We fell in love with the house and the location. It just felt like it was meant to be.”
