Surrey Homes | SH21 | July 2016 | Interiors supplement inside
The lifestyle magazine for Surrey - Interiors Supplement, Fabulous Fashion, Delicious Dishes
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Above: The leather turtle and hippo were both escapees from a chalet job but<br />
seem very much at home in Kent Left: The understated, wood-lined stairway,<br />
with bespoke handrail designed by Andrew, gives a taste of the chalet style<br />
upstairs<br />
French doors opening on to the garden. They also removed<br />
the old Aga which, in my book, virtually counts as<br />
structural.<br />
“It was wonderful to see that go,” says Martine. “It really<br />
was an awful thing – it never worked properly.”<br />
The new oak-topped units and two islands are – as is so<br />
often the case today in the smartest of renovations – from<br />
Howdens. The chic Italian chairs around the breakfast<br />
island are Bontempi Casa and are an over-order from their<br />
interior design and furnishing of Richard Branson’s chalet<br />
in Verbier. The oak dining table, surrounded by an eclectic<br />
collection of chairs upholstered in Design Forum fabric,<br />
The cottage hadn’t really had much<br />
done to it since Andrew first moved<br />
in and it still had something of the<br />
bachelor pad about it, says Martine<br />
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