Kensington apartment in Virginia Woolf’s childhood home goes on the market for

Woolf described the family home in detail in the story. “The drawing room at Hyde Park Gate was divided by black
folding doors picked out with thin lines of raspberry red. We were still much under the influence of Titian,” she opens the piece with. “Mounds of plush, Watts’ portraits, busts shrined in crimson velvet, enriched by the gloom of a room naturally dark and thinly shaded in summer by showers of Virginia Creeper.”