Surrey Homes | SH17 | March 2016 | Fashion supplement inside

Above: The main bathroom was not designed as a bathroom, as such, but was
simply another room to which Emma could introduce beauty and interest,
though it does include a luxurious roll-top bath and space-age walk-in shower
Right: Clues to Emma’s career in film and television, as well her father’s role
as a photographer are evident wherever you look. Here a classic Man Ray
image contrasts with more traditional touches
quite useful in that it has a beautiful free-standing
bath, loo, basin and elegant space-age shower.
Emma’s own bedroom one might expect to be
something special and, of course, it is. It started life
as the hayloft above what is now the drawing room
and the space hadn’t really changed from the days
when it was a store for horse-feed. Today, it is a lovely
vaulted chamber – decorated, aptly, in Farrow & Ball
Skylight – and seriously clever en suite bathroom.
She has installed six Velux windows to ensure her
now double-aspect space is as bright as every other in
the house, painted some beams white and kept others
a natural wood to enhance the warmth of the little
sitting area around her pretty little cream enamelled
wood-burner. In the corner is an elegant white bed
she brought back from America 20 years ago and
down the side of the room is a row of elegant grey
cupboards and chests of drawers. The bathroom
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