Surrey Homes | SH15 | January 2016 | Health & Beauty supplement inside

Above: A central landing allows light to flood into every room and is an
attractive focal point of the home Left: Although many of the rooms have
been knocked through to create open-plan living, there are still intimate
spaces such as this dressing room on the first floor
All the units are bespoke and in a Little Greene grey.
The walls are white. Any particular kind of white? “Just
trade white,” says Kate. “Sorry but to me white is
white and that’s what I asked for and that’s what they
are.” The Corian surfaces are also just white and the
£30 Tesco bar stools are just yellow. On the walls is a
selection of bright Anthropologie prints and a daffodil
still-life by her mother. The floor is a lightly limed,
not-quite-white Fired Earth herringbone parquet.
The fridge is called Goliath. This is not an
anthopromorphic affectation by the family but a
model name assigned to it by its makers, Fisher &
Paykel. “I was so tired of having such a tiny fridge in
my previous kitchen that when I found a fridge called
Goliath, I knew I had to have it,” says Kate.
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