AD100 designer Leonora Hamill worked on the design of their South Kensington home and the art of compromise

“This house was our favorite because the proportions are nice and wide,” says the homeowner of her Thurloe Square townhome in London. “The view is charming. It feels like being in the countryside.” The interior design is by AD100 firm Leonora Hamill Studio . Helen Cathcart. ART: Leonora Hamill. Latifa Echakhch. Antoine Wagner.

How did a Thurloe Square town house in London —one bathed in greenery and sun-diffused light from private communal gardens —become a house divided, one torn between the visions of the men in the house and that of the wife and mother?…