Surrey Homes | SH18 | April 2016 | Garden supplement inside

Above: The contemporary en suite bathroom with modern standalone bath, spacious walk-in shower and limed oak flooring is a far cry from what the couple
discovered when they bought the house which ‘wasn’t a wreck but needed a lot of updating’. Bathers get an uninterrupted view over the front garden
a coffee table from Graham & Green, a ‘naughty step’
from Indian Summer and a fireplace with bressummer
and woodburner. The TV stands on a table made from
old fruit boxes, another Perrine-Jason production.
Against one wall stands an Eiffel Tower standard
lamp from Graham & Green and against the
opposite wall is one of Ben’s contributions – a Harley
Davidson pin ball machine. On one wall, framed, is
his second – an old UBS trading floor shirt and on
another, a framed poster of signpost family figures
of Ben, Perrine and their children – Amelie, Charles
and Clemence – from Not On The High Street.
One alcove flanking the fireplace at first looks like a
bookcase but is, in fact, a secret door, decorated with
trompe l’oeil wallpaper, which leads through to the
drawing room, an altogether more grown-up affair.
Two buttoned, roll-top sofas from Graham & Green
face each other across a grey-checked Perrine-Jason
ottoman and grey rug above which hangs a sibling
of the lamp in the hallway. The fabric for the grey
and white patterned blind at one window and the
curtains at the other is from Vanessa Arbuthnott.
Above the contemporary gently arched open fireplace
is a convex circular mirror, again, Graham & Green, and
in the alcove next to the fireplace a handsome marbletopped
chest of drawers from Phoenix Antiques in
Tunbridge Wells. Both Ben and his father are passionate
about cricket and, in tribute to the timeless game, a
series of half a dozen Vanity Fair prints depicting great
Victorian cricketers hang over one of the sofas. Across
The guest bedroom has an equally chic bathroom. Through the window
there is a lovely view of the pond and a large neighbouring oast house
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