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We're accustomed to glamour in London SE26: Kelly Brook and Jason Statham used to live above the dentist. But when Anouska Hempel's heels hit the cracked cement of the parking space outside my flat, it's hard not to think of those Picture Post photographs of royalty visiting bombed-out families during the second world war. Her mission in my modest tract of suburbia is, however, about more than offering sympathy. Hempel—the woman who invented the boutique hotel before it bore any such proprietary name—has come to give me information for which, judging by the spreads in interiors magazines and anxious postings on online DIY forums, half the property-owners in the Western world seem desperate: how to give an ordinary home the look and the vibe of a five-star, £750-a-night hotel suite. To Hem­pelise, in this case, a modest conversion flat formed from the middle slice of a three-storey Victorian semi.

"You could do it," she says, casting an eye around my kitchen. "Anyone could do it. Absolutely no reason why not. But there has to be continuity between the rooms. A single idea must be followed through." She looks out wistfully over the fire escape. "And you'd have to buy the house next door, of course." That's a joke. I think.

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It's worth pausing, though, to consider the oddness of this impulse. The hotel room is an amnesiac space. We would be troubled if it bore any sign of a previous occupant, particularly as many of us go to hotels in order to do things we would not do at home. We expect a hotel room to be cleaned as thoroughly as if a corpse had just been hauled from the bed. (In some cases, this will actually have happened.) The domestic interior embodies the opposite idea: it is a repository of memories. The story of its inhabitants ought to be there in the photos on the mantelpiece, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves. If hotel rooms were people, they would be smiling lobotomy patients or plausible psychopaths.

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Entry #14080 — Discuss 0
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91 x42 x21 x1
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hempelizovati
Flows well
Sandra Borojevic
ijedi, s druge strane, zastati i razmotriti neobičnost ove idej
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Sandra Borojevic
a biće da neki puta i jest
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Kornelija Halkic
Entry #13795 — Discuss 0
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61 x41 x20
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Sam-svoj-majstor forumima
Good term selection
bosanka
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spremište memorija
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bosanka
+1
Priča stanovnika mora biti tu s fotografijama na kaminu, sa slikama po zidovima, knjigama na policama
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bosanka
lobotomirani pacijenti
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bosanka
uvjerljive psihopate.
Good term selection
bosanka
Entry #14200 — Discuss 0
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61 x41 x20
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-2
posjećuje bombama istjerane porodice
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sesame1
-1
posjećuje bombama istjerane porodic
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sesame1
skromnom predgrađu
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sesame1
-2
je polovina vlasnika imovine na Zapadu očajna
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sesame1
-1
Ali mora da postoji kontinuitet između prostorija
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sesame1
Vrijedi zastati, ipak,
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sesame1
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da se razmotri neobičnost ovog nagona
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sesame1
naročito zato jer mnogi od nas idu u hotele sa ciljem da rade stvari koje ne bi kod kuće
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sesame1
Domaći enterijer otjelotvoruje suprotnu ideju
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sesame1
+1
riznica sećanja
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sesame1
Entry #14114 — Discuss 0
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Hajde da zastanemo, ipak, da razmotrimo neobičnost ove potrebe.
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Sandra Borojevic
+1
urađena lobotomija ili potencijalne psihopate.
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dobar izbo​r riječi
Sandra Borojevic
Entry #14074 — Discuss 0
Bosnian
Bosnian
United States
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41 x400
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Entry #14147 — Discuss 0
Tidza
Tidza
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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41 x400
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+1
udi polovina vlasnika nekretnina na Zapadu
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Sandra Borojevic
+1
hempelizirana
Good term selection
Mirela Tankovic, CoreCHI™
Od hotelske sobe očekujemo da bude tako detaljno očišćena, kao da je iz kreveta upravo izvučen leš
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Sandra Borojevic
Entry #14153 — Discuss 0
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401 x22 x1
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+1
od 750 funti za noć
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Sandra Borojevic
Entry #14105 — Discuss 0
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0000
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