2077 Special taste
This place is still Kensington District, only a few blocks away from the Chelsea District. It can be reached by foot with both legs. Green Park, Hyde Park and a series of museums can also be reached in walking distances. In fact, it is only a fifteen-minute drive from Buckingham Palace.
This area is not only the most densely populated area of the wealthy and elite class in the entire city, but also the most expensive area of housing prices in the entire city. When rooms in other areas of London are more or less beginning to decline due to economic influence, only here is still rising steadily.
The Dunlop family’s downtown residence is where Renly arrived when he first returned to London. Renly’s personal apartment in Knightsbridge and Arthur’s current personal residence in London are all located in this area, which is absolutely the most concentrated area for London elites.
Now, Renley's private residence in London is also purchased here.
The gray-white walls and ink-black door panels are hidden in the gloom of the London style, revealing a solemn and steady temperament; the Victorian-style window lattices, gold and copper door bolts, big red postboxes, and sharp fences, these small details outline the historical heritage unique to the Kensington District. After the artillery fire of World War I and the bombing of World War II, these buildings have successfully escaped the destruction and destruction of the catastrophes, and now they have become witnesses of the city, recording the traces of those years and time, injecting an irreplaceable unique temperament here.
A Gothic-style black fence is erected outside the small green garden. The vines of ivy climbed wildly and rampantly throughout the fence, setting up a natural barrier to isolate the house from the street and blocking the peeping lines that try to covet the scenery inside the house.
Judging from the exterior walls alone, I couldn't notice too many special things, and it seemed to be no different from the townhouses on the entire street, but Ren Li fell in love with it at a glance.
Because the row of trees behind him, the garden in front of him, and the green in his eyes, a vague sense of ordinary and simple warmth was revealed. It was not a palace and castle, but a safe haven for him to live in. His footsteps were willing to stop here.
Philip opened the car door for Renley, and then Renley stood beside the car door, gently heading towards Matthew at the door, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, "Hey, I'm home."
Matthew stared at Renli with a expressionless face and complained without mercy, "It took so long."
Lan Li couldn't help but laugh.
Matthew then cast his eyes behind Renly and glanced, "Why are you back with your tail?"
Without looking back, Lanley knew that Matthew was definitely talking about the paparazzi, "Hey, this is London, they are the kings who dominate this land, okay?" Even the royal members could not resist the paparazzi's pervasiveness. "I never expected it. They would never know my residence. This is an impossible task. Instead of doing this, it's better to be generous."
"…and then they started to station at the door." Matthew complained mercilessly.
Lanley also burst into laughter, "It's like New York? In fact, Andy is also urging me to move to the Upper East Side, or Long Island, but unless it is a single-family villa and a layer of shelterbelts are established between the main house and the road, I still can't get rid of paparazzi."
"Now there are basically no paparazzi at the door of the apartment in New York because they know you don't stay there a few times a year, and even the apartment in Los Angeles seems to be more lively." Matthew friendly "corrected" Renley's mistake.
As a result, Lan Li said, "Wait, then are you looking forward to the paparazzi or refuse?"
Matthew glared at Lan Li speechlessly.
But Lan Li pointed behind her without stopping, "Do you need me to recommend it to you?"
"No, thank you." Matthew refused simply and neatly.
Lan Li shrugged, "I think so." Then he took a step towards the room in front of him and looked into Matthew's eyes with a smile, "How about it, am I honored to invite you to be a tour guide for me?"
Instead of answering, Matthew took a step back, opened the door, made an invitation gesture, and waited for Lanley to enter the room, nodded to Philip, "Thank you for your hard work."
Philip made way out of the position, "Master Matthew, please." It means that he will finish the follow-up later, and now Matthew can take the lead in.
Matthew did not refuse, nodded again, and then followed Lan Li's footsteps into the house, but found Lan Li standing in the entrance hall and not going in, "What happened?"
Lan Li didn't say anything, but just stood quietly, waiting for Matthew to stand side by side with him and look at the room in front of him.
In fact, this is a typical British residential building with a two-story composite structure. There is almost no special sight in the entrance hall. It is just a straight corridor. The staircase leading to the second floor is diagonally in front of the right hand, and the kitchen is directly leading to the bottom. This is all the sights that can be seen in the entrance hall.
But Renli stopped and stopped here.
There are not many scenes in the entrance hallway, but you can still savor the difference. Close to the exterior wall of the stairs, you can see a brown chestnut closet.
Near the door is a desk with an emerald green antique vase on it, a bouquet of flowers inside, and a glass bowl of the same series is placed next to it, with a few scattered keys thrown in it; then you can also see the freshly baked "Times" and "Guardian" stacked on the side today.
The part near the kitchen is a bookcase, which is neatly stacked with a large number of books. Even if you don’t walk to the front of the bookcase, you can see the full collection of books with the shadow on the side, which makes people want to stop, read it carefully, and slow down and wander in the sea of books.
Although you haven't entered the house yet, you can feel a unique aura just in the entrance hall, and you have an approachable sense of intimacy.
"Do you remember the first feeling Ruth had when boarding the ship in the 'Titanic'?" Renli said.
Matthew glanced at Lanley and said helplessly, "No. I don't like movies that much, remember?"
This made Renli laugh happily and not deliberately keep it a secret. "She said, it has been eighty-four years so far, and I still can smell the paint. The porcelain is brand new and the sheets have never been used. The Titanic was made the 'Dream Ship', which is worthy of its name."
Philip also walked in, stood in the entrance with his hands crossed, and quietly staring at Renli's back.
The words were cut off here, and Lan Li didn't continue to say it, but the meaning hidden in it was clearer and clearer, which made Matthew and Philip silent. The drizzle outside the window had a moving rhythm, and the atmosphere became quiet and full of faces.
Then Lanley's voice rang again, "Well, now it's full of Matthew's smell."
Matthew's head was covered in black lines, "Is this meant a dissatisfied state?"
"Satisfied, very satisfied, very satisfied, how could it be dissatisfied?" Lan Li said in panic, constantly repeating the same meaning, expressing her unwavering attitude, "In fact, I think this is the taste of home, just like New York." Seeing Matthew retracting his gaze, Lan Li wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. His childish look made Philip, who was standing behind, smile.
"Is the living room on the first floor?" Lan Li finally took a step and walked in the entrance corridor. Matthew also introduced it.
On the left side of the corridor on the first floor is the living room, mainly smoke gray, stone blue and dark gray. Sometimes you can capture a little bit of beige and tender green, instantly lit up the quiet and generous space. The simple and neat interior decoration invisibly makes the entire space deeper and farther, enhancing the visual effect.
On the right is the study room, mainly brown chestnut, dark red and light gray, and the veils of iron cyan and ivory white light up the entire reading space. Mosaic fragments spliced table lamps, dark brown log desks, smoke-gray burlap sofas and burgundy carpets create a calm reading environment.
Walk through the entrance hallway to the kitchen, and you can see the dining room connected to the kitchen, the spacious porch and backyard, three other small rooms and a storage warehouse. The green is full of green in the minimalist milky white and lemon yellow, and it seems that even the air can capture the vigorous vitality that is jumping.
The entire decoration design continues the clean and experienced industrial style. There is not much complex design, but the superposition of desk lamps, desks, curtains and other details creates a little retro style, highlighting the profound background; but for outsiders, they cannot even detect any abnormality:
I always feel that where is a bit powerful but I can't tell where it is, and then I feel that it may be really not awesome.
From the first floor to the second floor, you will enter the bedroom area.
The equipped with a master bedroom, six guest rooms, three public toilets, a studio and a smoking room/recreation room makes full use of all the building spaces to create a unique private residence.
The overall specification is slightly smaller than the villa in Matthew next to Green Park, but it basically belongs to the same level, with a total area of 4,800 square feet (455 square meters) of course it cannot be compared with the manor and castle. However, as a family's urban base, there is no problem at all.
The market price of such a house is only 3.3 million pounds. For the Hall family, this was a cost they could not afford; but for the current Renli, it was not a problem at all. After Matthew made the decision to complete the purchase, he completed the renovation work on the basis of the original residence, and finally showed what Renli saw now.
This also means that "Ranley Hall" also has a base in London. Can this be regarded as the rise of an emerging family?
Chapter completed!