The Telegraph, April 2013

This is the sitting room of my house in Kilburn, north London, an Edwardian four-and-a-half storey house. I just had one floor to start with in 1964, and bought the other floors as I was able to afford them.

This house is like an old shoe. It is part living space, and part workshop; I don’t make a delineation between living and working space. I’ve heard the theory of people not wanting to live where they work, or not getting on with colleagues. But…