Shortly before his 45th birthday, Bond paid to have his flat remodeled.īefore leaving on his mission to Jamaica, James Bond comes home to find a putting Sylvia Trench waiting for him.
īehind a fake radiator on the study wall was an airbrick with a spare Walther PPK, some cash, and some vital phone numbers and addresses. He was often on tour and allowed Bond to keep his spare keys, which allowed for covert escapes down the heavy drainpipe out his drawing room window. In the novel Solo, Bond lived on the second floor above a concert flutist who owned the back garden. The are two telephones – a regular personal phone, and a red one with a direct line to headquarters.īond wonders if there be room in his flat upon his marriage to Tracy and thinks perhaps he could rent the floor above. It has a large white-tiled bathroom containing a simple, glass shower cabinet and a bath. His bedroom is 'smallish' with white and gold Cole & Sons wallpaper with deep red curtains and a double bed with the dark blue bedspread. Also Fleming described the building as having steps running up to the front door and the flat having a 'book lined' sitting room also with an ornate Empire desk near its 'long big-window' overlooking the square also described as a 'broad window' as well as being a 'bay window'. Ian Fleming wrote James Bond lives in a small, but comfortable two-bedroom ground floor flat of the converted Regency house on a little square lined with plane trees off of King's Road and it takes Bond 15 minutes to drive from MI6 headquarters to his flat.
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