Remodelled for 21st-century life | Homes and Property

Remodelled for 21st-century lifeA light touch proves basements don't have to be dark and gloomy, discovers Camilla Belton

In 2007 interior designer Andrew Lock and his partner, magazine publisher Mark Stobbs, bought a Victorian garden flat in north London. The task was to turn its warren of dark rooms into a dream apartment - while respecting, rather than obliterating, the past.

Light fantastic: the airy open-plan kitchen/diner and office at the back of the flatArt deco meets Victoriana: Farrow & Ball’s Arsenic Green in the bathroom