I t’s hardly a surprise that the west London home of the interior designer Lucy Sear-Barlow is chock-full of her decor signatures: splashes of animal print, richly veined marble and a luscious layering of pattern.

The founder of design studio Barlow & Barlow was starting out as an interior designer when she bought the three-bedroom apartment with her brother Max Barlow, a lighting designer, in 2011. It was in need of an overhaul, and the siblings spent almost a year transforming it “on an absolute shoestring”.

Known for her playful design eye and pretty pairings of pink and green, Sear-Barlow says: “The best thing about this flat is indoor-outdoor living. There’s a huge bifold door going out to the courtyard garden. In the summer we’ve had

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