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Do you remember coming home from school and dropping everything on the little table by the front door? Keys in the china dish, letters propped against the lamp, a vase of whatever was flowering in the garden and the old telephone with its curly cord. It was the first thing you saw when you walked in, and somehow it always said: you are home.

Do you remember hiding in your parents' wardrobe during a game of hide-and-seek? The smell of lavender sachets, your dad's one good suit, your mum's winter coat brushing your cheek and the creak of the door as someone came looking. Back then nobody talked about wardrobe organisation – everything simply had its place, because there was not that much of it.

Do you remember the smell of talcum powder in your grandmother's house, and the old chest of drawers in the spare room where every baby in the family was once changed on a folded towel? Nobody spoke about changing table ideas back then. There was simply one sturdy piece of furniture, a soft blanket and a pair of hands that knew exactly what they were doing.

Do you remember Sunday afternoons at your grandparents' house? The heavy curtains, the polished sideboard with the good china behind glass, the armchair nobody else was allowed to sit in, and the soft glow of a fringed lamp while a record played quietly in the corner. Nothing in that room was trendy, yet everything felt settled, calm and somehow just right.

Do you remember climbing the narrow stairs to your grandparents' loft as a child? The creak of the floorboards, the smell of old books and wooden beams, rain drumming on the roof window while you hid under a blanket with a torch and a cassette player. Those little rooms under the roof felt like a secret world – small, slightly crooked, and somehow the cosiest place in the house.

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