A modern touch to an old building

Mar 29 2007 by Debbie Johnson, Liverpool Daily Post

Debbie Johnson meets an event director in his spacious Colquitt Street apartment

ANTONY GREEN- BERG is used to creating unique environments. Part of his role as director of events at OWL Event Management, in Mossley Hill, is to create special themed rooms and parties: office launches where the office in question is transformed into Picasso’s Loft, complete with artwork and easels; or evening bashes in venues done up as a Shanghai jazz club in the 1920s.

The themed work is only one strand of OWL’s remit – they do a lot of corporate work with clients such as Kelloggs, Yellow Pages and Cable and Wireless, organising conferences, dinners and events of all kinds to educate and motivate staff, and build customer loyalty and awareness.

But the themed events are clearly a lot of fun, and demand creative thinking.

Some of that has now been aimed at his apartment in Colquitt Street, in Liverpool city centre.

Antony says: “Organising events does take imagination and attention to detail, as well as a lot of time and hard work.

“I think you need to put the same kind of effort into doing up an apartment – sadly, because of work, I’m a bit lacking on the time front!”

Antony, 26, shares the two-bedroomed ground floor home with his girlfriend Becca Fisher, 21.

He has lived there for 2½ years, and was initially attracted by the sense of space and light in the flats.

He says: “This is a listed building, so when it was refurbished, the developers left in many of the original features. You get all the mod cons of a newer building, but with much of the charm of an older one.