When they took on the house, Louise and her husband did very little structural work to it, other than raising an archway in the kitchen to prevent Mackenzie from constantly hitting his head. One of Louise’s favourite things about the house and the architectural style is that it isn’t open plan and there are ‘different rooms for different things’. Having grown up in English country houses, it’s a look that doesn’t work in LA ‘it’s cosy, comfortable and lends itself well to real living, whereas LA is predominantly so modern it doesn't lend itself to messy, real life with kids.’Īs for the house itself, the Georgian property – Louise’s favourite type of architecture – is ‘very symmetrical and pleasing to the eye from the outside.’ It has a farmhouse feel to it and importantly for the stage that the couple are at with a two-year-old daughter, it’s child-friendly.
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We missed walks, wellies, country pubs and wanted that lifestyle here, plus we’re not too far from the city so we get the best of both worlds.’ But there is another element that caused Louise to crave the life she now has – the decoration. ‘I think in LA you get used to having a lot of space around you, so we didn’t want to move to London and a smaller house, much as we both love it. My husband was laughing and telling me to stop because tears would probably make it quite hard to negotiate.’ The house was just the second that the couple saw in the flesh on a six week trip back to the UK last summer and after a few months of gentle renovation and redecoration, is now home and has been since the start of the lockdown.īoth Louise and her husband Mackenzie grew up in the English countryside, but have spent the last few years living in the sprawling city of Los Angeles. ‘I was crying as we drove up to it as I actually felt that it was our house. I hadn’t even got out of the car and I knew the house was the one,’ says Louise Roe of the Georgian farmhouse that she relocated to from Los Angeles earlier this year, with her husband and young daughter.