![]() ![]() Where I am but with infinite space to fill it with dream pinball machines. You can only have one: dream home or dream pinball machine?ĭream home. Much of it has remained the same, with a few bits of work in progress. My home is a bit full and messy post-Covid, but was such a lovely base for me during this turbulent time. How has your home layout changed much then during Covid? My purchase went through bizarrely easily and so straightforward I am More: Metro newspaperĭid anything go wrong for you in the whole buying process? ![]() It is a base from which to explore the world from – or to hide, too, at times. I really look forward to going home, feeding the cats, cooking, listening to Radio 4 or playing my 1950s jukebox. I learnt that having a stable home and somewhere that myself and my various cats and partners can feel settled and happy is a wonderful source of creativity, stability and security. I love being here and the market value has never interested me as I hope to live here forever… given the reality of mortal existence, of course. It is a small two-bedroom flat and I have one room, which is robot-based, one which was meant to be Vegas-like, a green office and a bathroom that was going to be ghost train but ended up more goth. One ceiling is clouds and sky and I have semi-themed rooms. Gave it a strange feeling of size, unexpectedly. It went from dull and beige to mostly black, but I added glitter – which What did you do in terms of interior design? My present bed is on stilts and I sleep very near the ceiling, which is reminiscent of being under a pinball machine. To accommodate the pinball machines I dispensed with anything unnecessary – such as furniture, including the bed – and I slept happily underneath them for many years. That seemed deeply unfair at the time but – in retrospect – is inordinately reasonable. They said, ‘Geoffrey, you can have as many as you like but they must be in your room’. When I moved in it was in poor shape and dull, beige and non-descript, but I had some ideas and realised that you can do anything with a space. And I have been fabulously happy here ever since. To quote my bank manager at the time: ‘I will even give a mortgage to you Geoff’. I loved the vibe immediately and then found they had bought it in an auction for £24,800 and I could have it for the same. It was built, according to the plaque, in 1890 as homes for the railway workers. Which was in a bit of a state but has a lovely cobbled yard. They said that they may be able to help and showed me the flat that I live in now, One day they asked why I had never thought of buying a property and I explained that I was – and still am – awful with money. They were kind, generous souls and having both worked in the corporate banking market, very different from my own life experiences. As she was so delightful I went out of my way to help them. How did you find it?Ī woman called Fran was after a pinball machine for her The Who-obsessed husband Dave and I found them a 1970s Captain Fantastic based on the film Tommy. In glorious Stoke Newington back in 1993, having lived in this diverse area for about five years previously. ![]()
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