When interior designer Karin Schandorff and her entrepreneur husband Jens Loff bought the 5,920 sq ft house in Hamburg, Germany, five families lived in it, so it has been a massive undertaking for the couple to transform the house to how it looks now. “The house in Hamburg was built in 1890 and has been rebuilt twice since, and when the developer had finished, he still thought it was too small, so he added a beautiful tower, which unfortunately has disappeared during the Second World War,” says the Danish designer.
Schandorff, who runs Hamburg-based firm Little Chelsea, has been living in the city for over two decades, and saw a major renovation to be necessary for this new abode. It took more than a year to restore the original two-storey…