Surrey Homes | SH17 | March 2016 | Fashion supplement inside

Above: The large open-plan kitchen is a mix of French and Scandinavian
style as well as being eminently practical; recycling bins are hidden under the
kitchen counter and a double butler sink occupies the central island.
Left: Each room includes plenty of space for books – including the kitchen.
Here, recipe books sit alongside horticultural manuals and foreign dictionaries
room is the star of a considerable show. She bought
it for this space, in this room, from McCully &
Crane in Rye even before she had exchanged.
“I can’t resist the patina on an old gilt frame or
the carvings on framed French designs,” she says.
At one end of the room is her dining table which, along
with the Scandinavian bench on one side, came from
Warehams in Whitstable. The rattan-bottomed dining
chairs on the other were liberated from R. G. Scott
Furniture Mart in Margate. The paintings came from
everywhere – an eclectic collection of old and new, from
unknown Victorians to artist friend Sadie Hennessy.
On one wall there is also what one at first takes as a
geometric abstract but is, in fact, an Indian board game.
As one browses from picture to picture, one is,
however, likely to overlook – or perhaps underlook
– Sidney. Sidney, or at least his head – hangs
Emma is not into fitted kitchens
and is more interested in beautiful
pieces that fit into the kitchen.
If they don’t fit, then the kitchen
is simply redesigned so that they do
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